A Pleasant Surprise for This Writer!

Hello Grafted In Reader,

Today is the last day of 2025. The new year will be on us in less than 9.5 hours from time of writing and publishing this post!

My pleasant surprise as a writer is an invitation to you as a reader!

Spillwords Editors

Dear David,

Thank you for another submission!

We are pleased to inform you that your story, "Disencumber The Stuck," has been scheduled for publication on 1/1/26 at 1am Eastern Time (ET).

Once it is published, you can access it through the following link:

https://spillwords.com/disencumber-the-stuck/

We appreciate your contribution and look forward to sharing your work with our readers.


My story is inspired by a visit to the doctor that occurred in late Autumn, my annual physical. My character in the story is more bothered by his visit than myself, but we do share the tendency for North America Medicine to treat 'stuff' with a medication. Key word here is tendency.


I hope you may read the story and if inclined, leave a like at the Spillwords link. The option to listen to the story is also available at that site.


I am enjoying the writing of novelist, Ann Tyler. My current read, The Homesick Restaurant, is a portrait of familial dysfunction set in the '50s and early '60s. Then, single parents were a definite minority.


Let me close by again wishing you a Happy, peaceful new year! We will visit again, hopefully before January 15. Until then, the Lord bless and keep us every hour, every day!


Mellow Rock

David C. Russell, Author 

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