Writer. Gay Southerner. Celebrating the cast of colorful characters parading through my life.
"Put on Glenn Miller who is my favorite and I’ll tell you about dancing with Hixton at Carolina during college.”
"For pulling a stunt like that both of you go get out the paste wax and the buffer and start working on the wood floors in the living room."
“Old Rhonda keeps a gun in her Road Runner. You know, there’s so much crime in Atlanta now and if I need to take old Johnny out and straighten somebody out I sure can do it.”
"I was certain that the dead inside the funeral home would rise from their coffins to wreak havoc on the living with their bulging eyes, extended frozen arms, and grasping claws."
"I never missed my chance to dance in front of the television during Bob Waddell’s RC Cola Dance Party on Channel 2."
Billy Baites is currently completing a debut collection of non-fiction short stories, Billy Is That You?slated for publication in 2019.