Ross Ulysses Munroe is an award-winning creative talent, having served as Executive Editor and writer for a number of magazines and newspapers with his wife Virginia, a children's book, various screenplays, collections of short stories and more.
Currently serving on the Judging Panel with the Film for Peace Festival, Ross has produced and directed a number of story-driven jazz videos, hundreds of off-the-wall TV commercials and a 35mm feature film. He has received many dozens of awards around the world including Best of Show at the Bessies, Canada's premier commercial award event of the year, as well as special recognition at the NXNE Film Festival and The Hollywood Film Festival. Ross is known for his humor and incisive perspective on the human condition.
Ross' latest work is showcased in Volume 3 of his series, First Person Singular
— a collection of short stories, essays, poems and insights certain to provoke and entertain. From the sordid to the sublime, His writing is primarily drawn from his personal experience, in a delightful and unconventional mix of irony and pathos.
For more information or to contact the Author, visit http: //ShortStoryHeaven.com.
It's thirty below zero as the sun
readies to rise on the dawn of man.
I am on the rig floor,
...
With feet burning blisters
and fingers blackened bloody
ordained to walk in the winds of the desert
now deaf and dumb
...
Seven sculptures lay upon the altar
of my soul, iridescent, numinous,
unassailable.
...
pinioned by a vice
one jaw, fire; the other, ice
twixt the two, lava flows
glowing, the steam
...