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A Happy Ending
It had already been a long day. A case I thought I had settled blew up again. My star witness gave a statement to the defense. I don’t know why and everybody in the office seemed to blame me for … Continue reading →
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Writing Lesson #2 Flight of the Bluebird
In my last post I wrote about how the best writing does not out and out tell you the bottom line or the point, but it drops convincing hints all along the way that lead the reader to conclude the … Continue reading →
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Morning Poem, January 2, 2016
. In the early mornings Of those early years I walked through the forest to school. The worn path wound beneath beeches, hickory and oak And came out at the back of old man Cowl’s field. There was no other … Continue reading →
Evening Post, October 18, 2015
Here is a new installment to a story I started blogging here back in June. If you’re interested, you can scroll back and find the other five or six posts. The boy hoped and knew that his father would go … Continue reading →
Overtime: A Basketball Parable (Chapter 21)
21. To tell the truth, there was another reason I hated Brandon Murphy. I looked toward the 1979-80 season with the kind of hope and optimism and even confidence that I had not dared for seven or eight years. After … Continue reading →
Overtime: A Basketball Parable (Chapter 20)
Hey, faithful readers! Here is chapter 20. Hope you’re enjoying the read. If you want to get the book, click here. 20. It was one of the benefits of being a single basketball coach in a small town that you … Continue reading →
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Overtime: A Basketball Parable (Chapter 19)
19. THIS EVENING, WITH THE MEMORY OF DELMAR SPARKS FRESH IN MY MIND, I await again the appearance of his fated son and the man who, in my opinion, was his undoing. I am unusually relaxed in … Continue reading →
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Overtime: A Basketball Parable (Chapter 18)
18. When tryouts began, I contemplated a season of development. Sparks was a junior, and no matter how fast he might develop, he would never be the high school player he had the potential to be in just one season. … Continue reading →
Overtime: A Basketball Parable (Chapter 17)
‘ Faithful readers (and not so faithful readers), here is Chapter 17 of my new novel, Overtime: A Basketball Parable. If you’ve been following this blog, you may be up to date on the story; if not, you might want … Continue reading →
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Overtime: A Basketball Parable (Chapter 9)
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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