BURTRELL’S PIECES by Jeff Clemmons

BURTRELL’S PIECES by Jeff Clemmons

Burtrell's desire for Lorraine started long before he loved her. In fact, twenty years into their marriage and nineteen years after his desire had tempered, love remained little more than an inkling of an idea simmering on the back burner of his unconsciousness. It wasn't until their firstborn died in childbirth - Lorraine rising every morning against her grief to bottle feed their newly orphaned grandbaby - that Burtrell, whose heart had broken into a hundred tiny pieces, began to love his wife.

Jeff Clemmons is a cofounder of M’ville, an Atlanta-based writing salon. In addition to writing two books – Rich’s: A Southern Institution and Atlanta’s Historic Westview Cemetery – and a screenplay, he, along with three others, was nominated for an Emmy Award for producing Georgia Public Television’s “Rich’s Remembered.” He is currently working on a biography of avant-garde novelist Frances Newman.