William I. Lengeman III - Freelance Writer & Blogger

Samples: Published Articles

welcome. my name is bill lengeman. i'm a freelance writer with 20 years of experience. i've had hundreds of articles published on a wide variety of topics and i'm available to fill your freelance writing needs.

this site serves as a portfolio for some of my published articles. for contact info and more on my qualifications, look here.

business & science & travel articles & book reviews
historic traveler
link the great transcontinental motoring adventure of 1903

retail traffic
link developers are mining the populous northeast

space lifestyle
link a new race to the moon

subaru drive
link an indefinable something: the apache trail

tucson weekly
link weird arizona: your travel guide to arizona's local legends and best kept secrets

X Clan: To The East, Blackwards

X Clan
To The East, Blackwards
(4th & Broadway, 1990)

Makes perfect sense, really, my initial hostility toward rap music—or anything with a groove, for that matter. For you see, kids, once upon a time, it wasn’t particularly cool for dirty white boys to listen to rap. Forget for the moment that when I was coming up—back when a new Aerosmith record was an event, rather than an embarrassment—rap was still in its infancy. That’s kind of beside the point.

Read more at Crawdaddy.

Fiction - The Day Michael Flew

The Day Michael Flew
by William I. Lengeman III

Michael stood at the peak of the garage roof, with one bare foot planted firmly on either side. He could see all the way down past Pap’s backyard and the cherry trees, past the creek to where the cornfields stretched out in all directions as far as he could see. A clump of dark clouds loomed in the distance. It looked like it was going to storm before long.

Read more at Everyday Fiction.