Harold Stanford: fiction, etc.

Harold Stanford's accounts rustle with conflict. Often his original inspiration lies in stories that emerge in the press, but embellishments and twists wrest his work from the non-fictive. Encounters are tense, and the action flows quickly. Gothic violence sometimes prevails. The titles are available through amazon kindle. They are readable on a wide variety of tablets, laptops or desktop computers, including iPad. Link provided at left.

currently

Stanford resides in a perched chalet engaging a panorama of California's Tehachapi Mountains, feeling blessed that his hop-scotch life has landed him in a retreat that is wonderfully conducive to producing writing amid a calmer ambience. Although he loves the city and its allure (and he visits regularly) residence outside the fray buffers his outlook. His receptive sensibility seeks scant excitement and is buoyed by solitude and tranquility, despite hot summers and perhaps because of winter snow and fog. His reading includes Faulkner, Chaucer, Kerouac and Shakespeare.

his life

Stanford knew early he would be a writer, dreading the hex of financial instability incurred.

After graduating college with a degree in journalism, he entered a Discalced Carmelite monastery, but lasted little more than a year. Looking back, he thinks that regimen would have too curtailed his personality and creativity, but credits the experience with instilling some discipline and as an opportunity to take experience's, and his own, temperature.

Stanford spent four years in the U.S. Air Force medical corps, stationed in Washington, D.C., Las Vegas and in camp in Honduras.

Five years in journalism landed him in Arizona, desert California, Mississippi and New Jersey. His views included a subtropical pond and the Twin Towers erect.

He rounded out his day-job life serving for 15 years as a librarian in the Southern Maximum Security Complex outside Tehachapi, California.