Acid Dream and Other Essays, Poems, Stories & Songs

About the Book

Acid Dream and Other Essays, Poems, Stories & Songs is a small collection of the author’s favorites he had saved over time.  Not a songwriter or a poet by heart he has included a few in this collection to give it an appeal of what his collection was like as a teenager.  Like most teenagers in America he too had shoved all his writings away where no one would see them feeling intimidated if someone found out.

    The objective of this collection is centered around “An Essay on Writing An Essay”: instructions on writing a basic structure of an essay the author has written with high school and college students in mind.   He was encouraged to write it by friends he has taught who knew little about the subject.  “Acid Dream” is the only essay he has kept over the years since his long ago days of high school and has rewritten many times.

    “How to Talk to Your Ex-wife” and “The Last Word on Grace Metalious” were two he threw in at the last moment before publishing this collection.

About the Author

Mr. Whitlock was born and raised in Oklahoma City.  He began writing as a teeneager in 1964 as a hobby and continued throughout his years.  He served ten years in the military as well as a tour and half in Vietnam.  He came to Minnesota in search of work in 1984 and continued his college education in English-literature.  His experiences over the years working in the transportation and food service fields and being homeless at various times had gave him a rich background to draw from in writing.

He still resides in Minnesota.