Mister Sun

I am J. David Porteous, "Dave" to friends. After a Marketing career in Sydney, I came to New York in 1992 and became an Australian-USA dual citizen in 2008. In Australia, I wrote scripts for all media advertising, Public Service Announcements, The Variety Club events' promotion, corporate / industrial / training videos, and TV Documentary 'Birdsville To The Alice'. That earned my Australian Writers Guild membership in 1982. More personal creative writing began decades ago as 'Mind Shots', brief poetic depictions of fleeting emotions. After retiring from USA marketing roles, I found Long Island's North Fork Writers Group, and a life in fiction. The New Atlantian Library published eight of my short stories in the two volumes of North Fork Writers' "7 Voices", and twenty in my own "Strangers In My Mind", which gained praise for "memorable characters in engaging plots". For "Mister Sun". I revived my early writing of emotional reactions to empathetically portray the admirable people who are the heart of this infamous time's tragic goldfields' history.