Carl Parsons
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Carl Parsons grew up in the Mid-Ohio Valley of West Virginia, where many of his stories are set. He obtained a BA and MA in English Literature from West Virginia University and completed PhD coursework at the University of Pittsburgh. He also has a MS in Manufacturing Management from Kettering University. After a long career in the auto industry, which included management positions in labor relations and manufacturing operations, he retired to a second career of writing, teaching, and volunteer work. He taught writing and literature for Walters State Community College and worked as an associate editor for crime fiction with Fiction Magazines. Currently, he serves as a Master Gardener for the University of Tennessee Extension Office in Sevier County (TN) and leads the Classics Book Club of Sevier County.
His publication credits include eleven short stories appearing in The Broadkill Review, The Raven Review, Scars Publications, and Spillwords Press. His poetry has appeared in Plum Tree Tavern and Literary Yard. He is a member of West Virginia Writers, Inc. More recently, he has published a political thriller with Wordwooze Publishing entitled Trios: Death, Deceit, and Politics as well as a family saga, Locust Hill, available on Spillwords Press. His publishing awards include Contributor of the Year (2023) from Spillwords Press for Locust Hill and Literary Titan Book Award (July 2023) for Trios. He currently resides in Kodak, TN, just outside of Knoxville, within sight of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. |
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Trios: Death, Deceit, and Politics
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Political Thriller
As Rita Collins, a young news reporter/writer, seeks the reasons why her Iraq War-wounded husband rejects her and physical therapy, she uncovers a tangled web of political, personal, and academic corruption in which she herself has become caught. 
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Shantyboat: American Dystopia
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Dystopian Fantasy
Following a gradual loss of freedoms and prosperity all across a soon-to-be America, two homeless men struggling to survive meet an extraordinary woman who shows them the way to back to dignity. 
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Town and Country: Voices from the Mid-Ohio Valley
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Short Story Collection, Literary Fiction
In this collection of short stories--Town and Country: Voices from the Mid-Ohio Valley—the reader encounters ordinary people struggling with a variety of problems that threaten to change their lives: an elderly widower confronting a life of regrets, precocious children confronting separation, a middle-aged couple facing the loss of their generations-old general store, and many others. SAMPLE PDF 
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Locust Hill: A Romantic Family Saga
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Contemporary Romance
City girl falls in love with country boy in the family saga LOCUST HILL. Carl Parsons’ third noveldetails the struggles of an independent, small acreage farm family in the Mid-Ohio Valley of West Virginia. With wife Cassandra as the narrator, the novel recounts her discovery of a different world just outside her West Virginia hometown, a quaint rural village where people survive and maintain their community by helping one another. During their life together, Cassandra learns that her husband, Jim Russell, is the very embodiment of this spirit. 
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