Mean Grey Old Morning

“My old colleague Bill Burkett always knew how to spin a word just right or turn a lovely phrase. And he does that here with an outstanding collection of short stories that take you inside his world as a journalist, hunter, and literary adventurer.”
- Hollis George, critic and bibliophile

“Immolation of someone else’s diary was not how I had planned to start my day – it was a mean grey old morning, but I didn’t know then that was what to call it …” From surveillance of a yellow convertible in South Carolina to conversation with a streetwalker on Sunset Boulevard to a visit to Hemingway’s grave in Idaho, the writer builds a mural of life in the last half of the twentieth century.

William R. Burkett, Jr. is an acclaimed sci-fi writer, listed in the Science Fiction Encyclopedia. But his “straight” writing is a well-kept secret, until now. A product of Georgia and Florida, he now lives in the Pacific Northwest where he can enjoy the fishing and duck hunting. After a Quixotic career in journalism and public relations, he’s now turning his attention back to his talent for storytelling.