NAUGHTY GIRL
Rita! you naughty girl! What are you doing here?
“I wanna be on NAIWE too!”
“After all these years?”
“Don’t you think it’s about time?”
“Too young.”
“What?”
“To be drawing you.”
“Too young.”
“I was what? fourteen or fifteen or something.”
“What do you mean?”
“My art was not perfected: it lacks a certain edge.”
“An edge?”
“A professional edge.”
“I’M NOT PERFECT!”
“Of course you are perfect.”
“You said I wasn’t perfect.”
“The art, Rita, the art.”
“And now you’re suggesting I’m not perfect.”
“A child-like perfect.”
“NOW YOU’RE CALLING ME A CHILD!”
“Hardly.”
“A child.”
“Why do ladies always misunderstand me?”
You’re a naughty boy!”
“Indeed.”
“Well?”
“Well, what.”
“Don’t you think it’s about time.”
“Time?”
“That you posted me.”
“It’s about time.”
I was born in Roanoke, VA, and grew up in Chesterfield County near Richmond. True stories, which depict my life vividly and uncompromisingly, are my passion: notably the memoirs CHILDHOOD and MOSSBACKDRAGON. I am currently completing my third memoir, THE ROYAL ROAD TO THEBES.