S. A. Barton

S.A. Barton knows third person bios look professional, but he doesn't care for them nonetheless.
I prefer to be more personal, partly because overcompartmentalization is a former flaw I remain mindful of. As a (recently diagnosed) autistic/ADHD human, I have many reasons to remain mindful and many rewards for doing so. I dislike the label disability but understand it does sometimes apply to me and my work–but enough about that.
I live in the Chicagoland exurbs near parentals and my sole sibling and her family, where the city is in reach but the deer are closer. Like many writers I often live in my own head; I prefer to be close to nature and select humans daily so I don't stay there.
My children live in Virginia with their mom and her husband. Buy more of my books, please: help finance some in-person visits because thrice-weekly videocalls are good but not the same as IRL hugs.
My writing is diverse and reflects all of the above as well as roughly four decades of personal seeking and many jobs beginning with my rural Wisconsin roadside worm stand, begun to finance an RPG habit in 1981 and shut down by the state when my success began luring customers from the local bait shop.
You'll find my more polished and mostly self-published fiction here; so far my nonfiction lives with my visual art and select fiction on Patreon.com/sabarton and Twitter.com/sabartonwrites :)

Website: https://www.clippings.me/sabarton
Twitter: @sabartonwrites
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...and 2 more

• The Campsite on June 17, 2012
  
  Creepy, odd, fun. All the things I like in a good read. The middle seemed to sag a bit in some indefinable way... if I were writing this, I'd have been in a hurry to write that ending I like so much so maybe that explains it. I'd also have driven myself crazy trying to edit and re-edit that middle to work out that indefinable something, so it may be all for the best if I had simply gone ahead and published it... so goes my theory on what the author has done here. Having nitpicked quite a bit, I'm going to shut up and give this 5 stars.
  
• The Star Creature on June 25, 2012
  
  Well and thoughtfully written and a joy to read. I see why it sold in '79, and it is still fresh today.
  
• Green, A Short Story on Aug. 18, 2012
  
  It's hard to comment too deeply on the themes here without ruining the ending... I will say only that this story casts its net a little more broadly than I suspected it would when I began reading. An enjoyable read.
  
• Mommy on Aug. 18, 2012
  
  Dark and powerful.
  
• "Welcome to Hell. Would you like fries with that?" on Aug. 18, 2012
  
  I've knocked around a few different stations of the retail world, and I have had that day many times. "What, it's not over YET?" This story was simply that feeling distilled. Nice work.
  
• Life's A Beach on Aug. 20, 2012
  
  A fun, light read with a pleasing twist. Quite enjoyable.
  
• Siddhartha on Aug. 20, 2012
  
  Well, some say Zen is everything is Zen... Could use a little tweak on formatting, but nothing I couldn't look past. And that's only if it wasn't my reader being wonky, which is entirely possible. Good show.
  
• Ramming Speed on Aug. 26, 2012
  
  Definitely a fun read, only slightly askew from the description. But then, descriptive blurbs are rarely right on the money, part of what they're there for is to be enticingly vague. A few minor typos survived editing. None are disastrous, chasing them down would improve basic readability a tad.
  
• Scavenger on Oct. 04, 2012
  
  A fun little read with a smile at the end. Nice.