Stephen Mitchell has had enough of college. Mason college has been an adventure that has broken his heart, his faith, and his belief in the rightness of the universe. His heart is crushed by love and by the murder of his friend and room mate, a young Negro who introduced Stephen to the world of Southern politics. Stephen has met and resisted Southern bigots; discovered that free love isn't exactly free, and when the Marine Corps rejects him because of a heart murmur he finds himself headed back to Mason.
G. Lloyd Helm has been writing for 40 years, having published poetry in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers including “The New York Poetry Anthology,” “Stars and Stripes News,” “The Los Angeles Times,” “The Antelope Valley Press,” and “The Antelope Valley Anthologies,” among others.
The English journal “Pilgrimage” published his memoir “Football” in spring 2005, and “4 April, 1968” in the winter of 2008.
G. Lloyd Helm has published short stories in “Citadel” the literary magazine of Los Angeles City College, “Short Story Library,” The University of S. Illinois’ “Eureka Literary Magazine,” “Tales as like as not,” and London’s “Black Gate Magazine.” He recently published “Even Up” a Civil War Ghost story at www.ruthlesspeoples.com, an English on line magazine, and the short story “A Lovely Elephant” in “Delivered Magazine” an English fiction journal. He has also published “The Other Fellows Shoes,” Pulp Empire III, Metahuman Press, Cedar Rapids, and most recently a volume of short stories called "Train Wheels, Flying Saucers, and the Ghost of Tiburcio Vasquez". Many of these stories appear on the Alfie Dog site.
G. Lloyd Helm has published three novels in the Fantasy and Science Fiction field: Other Doors, Design, and World Without End. He has also published a literary Romance novel called Sometimes in Dreams.