The True Story of the Troll

About the Book

In Adulars’ mythical kingdom, strange things have been happening; peasants being unruly, knights overly concerned about looking good, parties the never seemed to end, etc.... And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, a troll is seen in the surrounding countryside. This true story proves, that even fairy tales there are no absolutes.

About the Author

Dwight Byron Bridges was born in a ‘home for unwed mothers’ in Hot Springs Arkansas, in January of 1955. Four days later, he was on a greyhound bus with his adoptive mother headed for Tylertown Mississippi, where he grew up and went to school. He entered the first grade at the age of four and completed high school in Tylertown at the age of sixteen in 1971. He then enrolled at Southwest Mississippi junior College where he received an Associate of Arts degree in I973. There he moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he came of age. Nine years later, he enrolled at Alcorn State University, where he finally completed his undergraduate requirements in educational psychology in 1984. He received a Master’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in special education in 1992

At present,  Mr. Bridges lives and works in ‘small-town’ Mississippi, where he teaches at a local elementary school, tie still writes short stories and poetry, and he has had one of his works, Not Over You, published in the Winter 1997 edition of Treasured Poems of America.