Tag Archives: mystery

Overtime: A Basketball Parable (chapter 11)

Posted on September 20, 2015 by labeak52

      Hey faithful readers.  Just a note here to mention and explain my method here for the last few and next few days.  I’ve a got a new novel up for sale on Amazon. ( It’s dirt cheap … Continue reading →

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Overtime: A Basketball Parable (Chapter 9)

Posted on September 18, 2015 by labeak52

9. THE YEAR BEFORE I TOOK THE JOB at Walhonde High School I taught and coached at a tiny junior high school in Pocahontas County. We were about as far up in the mountains as a school could be and … Continue reading →

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Overtime: A Basketball Parable (chapter 7)

Posted on September 16, 2015 by labeak52

Here is chapter seven of my new novel, Overtime.  If you’re just tuning in, you can get the first six chapters by backing up on this blog.   7.   By the time Sparks and Murphy appear I already have … Continue reading →

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Overtime: A Basketball Parable (Chapter 6)

Posted on September 15, 2015 by labeak52

Here, in all its glory, is chapter 6.  The plot begins to thicken here. 6. The next day is another fine, sunny, autumn afternoon. I have been hearing the playground sounds of the schoolchildren every day for a week or … Continue reading →

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Overtime: A Basketball Parable (Chapter Five)

Posted on September 15, 2015 by labeak52

5. I entered the world of basketball when I was twelve years old. I had not a clue that I was trying out for anything. We were lined up for gym class, all forty-five or fifty of us, along the … Continue reading →

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Overtime: A Basketball Parable (Chapter 4)

Posted on September 14, 2015 by labeak52

Here’s  chapter four.  If you have not read the other three, just back up a few posts on this blog and start with chapter 1 and work forward. 4. The next afternoon the same youngster is back again at about … Continue reading →

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Overtime: chapter 2

Posted on September 12, 2015 by labeak52

    Welcome to the chapter-by-chapter presentation of my new novel, Overtime: A Basketball Parable. This is the second day of this experiment, so today you are getting chapter two.  If you haven’t read chapter one yet, just go back … Continue reading →

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Markings in The Snow

Posted on February 17, 2015 by labeak52

It is late afternoon in late winter This season’s only great snow still covers the ground Sparkling in the long-angled evening light The roads have been plowed and driveways scraped But the lawns and fields are still perfect, unbroken white. … Continue reading →

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Morning Poem, September 20, 2014

Posted on September 20, 2014 by labeak52

THE CASTLE (Authors Note: Most of the poems I’ve posted here are of recent vintage.  Some of them I have written just to have something to post on a particular day.  I love doing that.  I really don’t think the … Continue reading →

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