A Brief Moment in Time is a collection of stories about events in the life of a child growing up in dustbowl Oklahoma during the Great Depression of the nineteen-thirties. These stories are told in sequence beginning when the child is only five years old to the last event which occurs after that child has grown to an adult and is just entering manhood during World War II. Each story is told from the prospective of the child at the time in which the event is occurring. These stories are compelling and are told in a way that everyone can relate to regardless of when or where the reader may have grown up. Reading these stories will allow the reader to grow up again as the child in the stories is growing up. It will allow each and every reader to relive again, A Brief Moment in Time.
William Wayne "Bill" Dicksion's ancestors migrated to the American frontier in the seventeenth century. As a boy, he loved the stories his grandparents told about that great adventure. Writing is his way of sharing those stories. He is educated in science and literature. His other interests are geography, history, philosophy, and anthropology. His writing reflects these interests. He and his wife live in Honolulu, Hawaii. (From amazon)