The Complete Literary Works of Charles E. White

This collection features a personal memoir by the author, plus three works of fiction based on real life characters from the author’s past. Also included are three short stories also based on people from the past.
“Memoir” tells the story of a boy, pretty typical southern boy of the fifties, growing up in a small town with parents trying to deal with their own set of issues. These were times before much TV, no air conditioning, video games, or pizza delivery. It’s about a time when people had to take what they had and get by with it. The author managed to figure out how to get by when sometimes things all around him were coming apart.
“Glass Ceilings” is about two young men, initially labeled as “losers’ who through trials and tribulations they leveraged the system and managed to grasp some of what life offered.
“Matt and Lizzy” is about the author’s maternal grandparents he never knew. His grandfather shot himself in 1918 and his wife followed suit in 1930 by drowning in a private well while her three children waited for her return to the house.
“Jimmy Earl Quagmire” is a universal story that represents every musician who ever journeyed to Nashville in hopes of making it big.
“Ethel” is a story about one woman in the fifties in the author’s hometown who broke out of the mold of many women of the time who often wasted away waiting for their man to return each day from work.
“Red Light” is based on a real life activity of several young males on summer vacation that had nothing better to do than watch adults go and come from a house of prostitution.
“Journey” is based on the author’s actual chronology of his own father’s journey from a life of independence to the twists and turns of skilled nursing care.