Born in Welland, Ontario, a blue-collar town in the Niagara Peninsula. Backpacked the world and lived in Australia.

I've worked as a paperboy, grocery clerk, sales rep, iron worker, framer, painter, mink ranch hand, assembly line rubber plant worker, cherry picker, framer, freelance astronaut (no offers), boilermaker apprentice, various sales jobs, delivery driver, and career firefighter and officer.

Now, I'm retired leaving Edmonton Fire Rescue as a station captain after 32 years. I live in Beaumont, AB. with Gloria. I write, travel extensively, do a bit of fishing and boating, drink demon rum, manage a writers group, do occasional renos, repair everything I have that's wearing down or breaking, and sit on my butt outside in the good weather reading a decent book. Check out my website for some short stories.

Website: http://www.yatscoffbooks.com
Twitter: ERYatscoff

• ERYatscoff: My online interview is posted. Check out Morgan Bailey's Word Blog http://t.co/pVmM7pvo
• ERYatscoff: 3 travel shorts posted on my site. One is how I met my wife.
• ERYatscoff: Being discreet. Popularity of Shades of Grey is better on an eReader when the kids are around. Just click off. Use password protection.
• ERYatscoff: The gr. 4 class did a character map of AG which is like a map of characters and their actions/relationships to each other.
• ERYatscoff: Read Ch.1 'Archie's Gold' to Dinah Liko's gr. 4 class @ Chester school in Toronto. They enjoyed it so much I had to sit and give autographs

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• Bluegums (Lucien Caye Private Eye Story) on March 01, 2012
  
  I like the detective Lucien and the story starts off okay in the Deep South. Good imaging and dialogue. It deteriorates into the creatures doing *&^&^* to the woman and the detective really doesn't seem to care about the weird creatures or the woman and there's no detecting to be done. He just comes along for the ride. Hey, but it's a freebie. A good base story here. I'd develop it into a real horror/ erotica. Thanks for the download.