The American Dress

About the Book

The twenty-six short stories in the American-Dress book collection explore war, conflict, romance, ethnic cultures and social situations. Most rose spontaneously to consciousness and were written in a few hours for my own enjoyment. I hope the same for readers. The decision to share them wasn't easily made, for their variety provides no common theme to commend them. As I spent more serious time on one story in the collection: "The American Dress," eventually making it a novella, the name for the collection became more obvious to me. Moreover, my brother Bernard, served in Saigon during this period. A nephew, who also served during an earlier period, provided the interview which helped me understand more of that culture.

About the Author

Dorothea Paulks live in Oklahoma where she manages her farm, writes and paints. Retirement from career in teaching language arts and in hospital nursing freed time to write. She has published five books at Xlibris since retiring. Sulphur Matches is her fourth novel and her first juvenile book. Adapted from the adult novel, courtesy of Andrew Carnegie, it focuses on the six-year-old Crissy instead of adult characters. She has been writing and publishing since the late sixties: clapbooks, shortstories, articles and one play which Pueblo Press published in 1980. She received her MA in writing from UCO in 1974.