Episode 916
August 22, 2026
“Stories Well-Traveled,”
a book of short stories
by Writers Anonymous,
is now live on Amazon.
Publishing and contributing to “Stories Well-Traveled” has been my great privilege and joy.
Our first Writers Anonymous anthology of short stories was “Matters of Life and Death, Stories on the Brink.” The authors weave tales of unexpected danger, unspeakable dilemmas, bad choices, and dumb luck.
In “Stories Well-Traveled,” our second anthology, we return to write about the different paths Writers Anonymous authors have traveled, both real and imagined. Over the last fifty-nine years, we have stayed connected through these stories.
There is an unusual story about how our Writers Anonymous group came to be. In 1967, we met and shared four years at Servite High, a Catholic school in Anaheim. America was a cauldron of race riots, assassinations, and a war in Vietnam. Despite the chaos, our circle of friends held fast and thrived.
We had the unusual luck of studying under our English teacher, Den Watson, three out of four years at Servite. He taught us the importance and power of literature. He had us journaling daily. He shared his passion for films and filmmaking and mentored our Paragon Pictures Movie Club. He was appallingly abstemious about abetting our abstruse, anachronistic vocabularies via a daily dose of Building Word Power, 10th edition.
At our 50th Servite reunion of the class of 1971, our circle of high school friends decided we should write, and write we did. We called ourselves Writers Anonymous (WAnon), as a nod to the monthly meetings and self-improvement.
During the past six years, a dozen members of our group have written and published novels, memoirs, three-act plays, songs, and short stories. Den Watson is one of us, writing and still teaching through his kindness and inspiration. Our authors thank him.
“Stories Well-Traveled” is a collection of short stories by the members of WAnon, both real and imagined, over the last fifty-nine years. There are stories about life in Death Valley, a father-daughter fishing trip, impossible romance, a magician who saved Christmas, epic battles in fantasy and science fiction worlds, military drama from real-life South America, high school shenanigans, a noir detective story, life-changing emotional situations, and an excerpt about homelessness from Den Watson’s “A Death in Home Park.”
I hope you have half as much fun reading “Stories Well-Traveled” as we have writing it.
Click on this cover graphic to go directly to “Stories Well-Traveled” on Amazon.
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The newest Writers Anonymous short stories anthology, “Stories Well-Traveled,” is now available on Amazon.
It is a collection about the different paths Writers Anonymous has traveled, both real and imagined, and how, through these stories, we have stayed connected.
CLICK HERE.
