Hello everyone and thank you for supporting new upcoming authors.

My name is Vicki lee Zell, (VLZ pen name) and I have been writing stories since I was eleven years of age.

I have always loved hearing stories around the campfire, which in my case, as was in the case of my siblings, around the woodstove. I was born in a small town, so small, the folks who live there would joke if you blinked you would miss our town altogether. It was a small community of family and friends and neighbors, who at the time I was young, an enormous sized family.

Everyone knew everyone. You never locked your doors, even at night. Neighbors would drop by and simply announce themselves as they entered your home. No one was shy in that way. We all seemed to live in harmony.

We, as children, played well into the night, especially…