Since 2022 William K. Burke’s short fiction has appeared in The Opiate, 34th Parallel and Action, Spectacle. As a journalist he published over 100 investigative and feature articles. This work focused on solutions to environmental problems and was featured in The Best of the Alternative Press 1995. He self-published Guardian, a narrative about his work protecting elders as a court appointed fiduciary. Guardian sold out two printings and was featured in a keynote speech at the National Guardian Association’s 2013 convention in Tampa Florida. He is seeking representation for his novel Wolf Summer.
William K Burke is the Director of The Imagine Possibilities Center, a day program for people with developmental disabilities in Aloha, Oregon.
Guardian: The Art of Restoring Lives
For 14 years I was a highly successful professional guardian. My self published book Guardian: The Art of Restoring Lives, has stories of helping elders get their lives and savings back from scheming nieces, thieving handymen and a grandson who turned his grandfather’s house into a den of meth addicts. In case after case, Guardian shows how we helped elders who thought they had lost everything find a new life and the peace they deserved. Guardian sold out two printings and was featured in a keynote session at the 2013 National Guardianship Convention in Tampa, Florida.
Wolf Summer: A Novel
She had learned to move at night. More deaths than she could count had taught the wolf this, and much else. Do not eat meat she had not killed herself. Do not sleep two nights in the same place. Never dig a proper den. When she could no longer resist her urge to sing she kept her voice thin, offering her voice to the wind and trotting quickly into a draw or thicket.