kelcey ervick parker
Bio
Kelcey Parker is the author of FOR SALE BY OWNER (Kore Press), winner of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Short Fiction. Her next book, LILIANE'S BALCONY, set at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house, is forthcoming from Rose Metal Press in 2013. She is a recipient of an Individual Artist's Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission, and her stories have
appeared in numerous literary journals including Image, where she was featured as
Artist of the Month in November 2009. She has a Ph.D. from the
University of Cincinnati and currently directs the creative writing
program at Indiana University South Bend.
First Draft
Kelcey was always the tall girl and the new girl. Her father worked for Procter & Gamble, and as her family moved from one suburbia to another, she attended six different elementary schools. This was such a formative experience that she wrote about it on at least one college application. On another college application she said that the person she would most like to have dinner with was Huckleberry Finn. She got into that school, but she did not attend because it was far away and she was tired of moving.
Second Draft
In fourth grade Kelcey was voted Best Athlete, but her teacher spelled it Best Athelete on the certificate. Her dad was her soccer coach and he liked to yell, "Boot it!" In college she was co-MVP of her soccer team and a Top Student Athlete. She was the only Student Athlete who was also an English Major. And she was a goalkeeper.
Albert Camus was a goalkeeper. He once said, "Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football." By "football" he meant "soccer;" by "morality" he meant, perhaps, the killing of a stranger.
Another Draft
Growing up, Kelcey Parker was Kelcey Ervick. Kelcey Ervick’s first job was in eighth grade, cleaning the office of her dentist. Her dentist also happened to be the father of her best friend, Kelly, so she and Kelly created K & K Cleaning Company, and vacuumed and dusted and scrubbed the already very clean office each week. With her first paycheck she bought an album, Journey’s Greatest Hits. She had seen Journey in concert the year before at Cincinnati’s Coliseum, which is now named something else. Just like she is.
Kelcey was always the tall girl and the new girl. Her father worked for Procter & Gamble, and as her family moved from one suburbia to another, she attended six different elementary schools. This was such a formative experience that she wrote about it on at least one college application. On another college application she said that the person she would most like to have dinner with was Huckleberry Finn. She got into that school, but she did not attend because it was far away and she was tired of moving.
Second Draft
In fourth grade Kelcey was voted Best Athlete, but her teacher spelled it Best Athelete on the certificate. Her dad was her soccer coach and he liked to yell, "Boot it!" In college she was co-MVP of her soccer team and a Top Student Athlete. She was the only Student Athlete who was also an English Major. And she was a goalkeeper.
Albert Camus was a goalkeeper. He once said, "Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football." By "football" he meant "soccer;" by "morality" he meant, perhaps, the killing of a stranger.
Another Draft
Growing up, Kelcey Parker was Kelcey Ervick. Kelcey Ervick’s first job was in eighth grade, cleaning the office of her dentist. Her dentist also happened to be the father of her best friend, Kelly, so she and Kelly created K & K Cleaning Company, and vacuumed and dusted and scrubbed the already very clean office each week. With her first paycheck she bought an album, Journey’s Greatest Hits. She had seen Journey in concert the year before at Cincinnati’s Coliseum, which is now named something else. Just like she is.
