Welcome to Mark Prior’s Web Site and Blog

Artificial Intelligence WAS NOT used to create the written content in my stories. It was only used to generate sketches in stories to supplement the text.

Below are links to some of my emotional and sometimes humorous short stories. Additional full versions will be available for direct purchase soon, so check back periodically for updates or contact me at markprior123@markpriorauthor.com

This chapter in my father’s story is where he describes how defending our country from dictators led to his Million Dollar Education as a WWII Bomber Pilot

A story about working with my mother to allow the exercising of a hard-earned right to vote at a Flint, Michigan voting booth in 1975: Brave Americans at the Voting Booth.

Not your typical summer gardening job: Gardening Gifts and Solar Power Vehicles.

Learning about the risks and rewards of using creativity: Trombones Butter Knives and Mini Golf

Discovery of hidden talent and the makings of a volunteer: Thanksgiving and Smart Watches at the Children’s Home.

An interview where I talk about my friend’s Vietnam MIA story and other touching ‘leaving no one left behind’ stories at the POW MIA Recognition Day Ceremony.

An emotional and humorous story about how my mother helped me, the younger brother, gain my father’s attention and acceptance: Fishing For Love

My father was born in 1923 in the highly industrial city of Flint, Michigan. In this detailed story, he tells about the good and tough times while Growing Up in Flint, Michigan During the Great Depression(as told by a WWII Bomber Pilot Veteran).

Full Story Coming Soon: My mother’s family migration from Kilbirnie, Scotland to Flint, Michigan in 1924. The Auld Kirk church in Kilbirnie is one of the oldest in Scotland still in use. Preview: Scotland Migration Story.

My narrative of how, as a child, I experienced a new type of fishing with my father and older brother using spears and nets in frigid Michigan waters at midnight: Spearing and Dipping