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A Good Paperboy

parable, short short, 200 words

Beyond the Words

short

Robbie Mclean -- a ghost story

This is as close to horror as I write.

WTF is Copy-edit?

An essay on how I write

Ghosts short story 1100 words

a exercise in narrative

A Simple Plea

A Simple PleaKasey Klein SHE is of the storm,The wind and the rain.She is the heartache,The tears, the pain.She is love �" warm and feeling.Her love �" forever healing.She’ll come when the snowIs falling.Or when the tapping of rainIs calling.Without her ..

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10I SETTLED INTO the rhythm of my senior year. After the first week, I had all my teachers typed and knew what I could and couldn’t get away with. Funny how people aren’t aware of this, these shadows playing in their lives like spirits dancing on the walls of a dimly lit apartment a..

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Randy Joyce Locke and the incident at Sparrow Lea 43Sometimes hard choices. Sometimes the apparent distracts us from the obvious, which isn’t always a bad thing. Much of the information that passes in front of us isn’t all that important. Most to the time, the object is more i..

Checking Out

Supermarket Tale

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Randy Joyce Locke and the incident at Sparrow Lea 42Sometimes, the apparent distracts us from the obvious. Sheriff Templeton was seen by many people, for no apparent reason, abandoning his car and rushing into the woods to the northeast of Sparrow lea. That was the last any of the residen..

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9ANDY CAMERON stumbled into my life as the second special friend adults sometime have. Unlike Mark Beck, Mom’s first special friend, Andy seemed more like Mom. Let me explain: Uncle Mark was bigger, wider and older. Andy, not Mr. Cameron or Uncle Andy, stood Mom’..

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8TOM PRESCOTT, a mature teddy bear of a man, granny glasses and a thinning dome, has the pleasure of my company right after lunch to try to beat the finer points of western civilization into my brain. He’s also the other of the three teachers to send me to the office on the first day. Unlike J..

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7FOR THE REST of summer, each weekday, Percy stopped in the sea of people below my window and tipped his finger from his derby. Me and Bear ran down the steps. Percy either had sandwiches in a paper bag, which we’d eat on the steps, or we’d get a hotdog and soda from the c..

Essay: About Randy's Diary

How I came to the character

Deconstructing Straw People

Straw People is a book about people. In the first chapter, our hero Debra gets raped by her uncle. This is a deconstruction of that chapter.

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Randy Joyce Locke and the incident at Sparrow Lea 41Deep in my heart, I have a sore spot for people that harm others simply because they’re different, which is why Eve was careful presenting the information to me. If Joey Lichen and Lisa Corning were harmed simply because they were ..

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6LATE ONE afternoon, the toilet didn’t drain and the water spiraled upward right to the brim, dripping the slightest bit onto the floor. Silly me, I flushed the toilet again thinking a second flush would fix the problem. Water spilled onto the floor. I dragged towels from the shower rod, ..

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5I’M GUESSING MY first sexual experience came when I was around six, soon after my birthday, in early summertime. To make a short story long, my dad left, Mom lost the house,a house I have no memory of. We lived in a studio apartment, us sharing a small twin bed. Mom quit school to m..

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Randy Joyce Locke and the incident at Sparrow Lea 40Kent shared a story as Eve forced some broth in him. Three men, “Hayseeds dressed like hunters,” claimed to have information and led him up onto the bluff behind the Corning farm. “The rest of the story, well, you can p..

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4 ROSEBUD MILK BOTTLE Mockridge is as close to a best friend I have my age. Most people call her Rose. She does her best to hide the fact her parents, hippy throwbacks, named her Rosebud. I call her Milk Bottle or Milky for short becau..

Witchcraft for Dummies

A supermarket tale, fun little story

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Randy Joyce Locke and the incident at Sparrow Lea 39“Sheriff.” The older boy eyed the distant road toward Sparrow Lea and hit one of the other kids. By the time I did a K-turn and headed south, the teenagers were fully engaged in a brawl blocking the road as the sheriff rolled..

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Sparrow Lea Index Randy Joyce Locke and the incident at Sparrow Lea 38We took the van to the Lichen farm. Eve saw some of her friends from the roadhouse and ran off. I paid the fee and climbed the scaffolding. I bit my lip, recalling Bennie Manson’s map and where the cattle mutilatio..

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3I’M NOT SURE how others see me. I know many people think I don’t like school. I like school just fine, and if I could remove most of the student body and a large hunk of the teachers, life would be perfect. I think Randy Holmes knows more about me than he’s saying. I’m ..

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Randy Joyce Locke and the incident at Sparrow Lea

last chapters of a book I'm working on.

Sparrow Lea Index

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2ELDER WOULDN’T let go, and I was like a dog with an old sock. Before the week was out, we had a meeting, the three of us: Randy Holmes, Jack Elder and me. Elder and I sat side-by-side in front of Holmes’ desk. I had an advantage in the meeting...

Kilroy

Supermarket Tale

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1OFTEN,SOMEONE asks: “Isn’t Randy a boy’s name?” If I’m in a goodmood, I ask back: “What cave you live in, moron?” If I’m in a not-so-good mood,I’ll pull my shirt open and my bra down,..

A personal note from Randy Joyce Locke

Introduction

Randy's Diary: The Shadows

Randy tells the tale of growing up in poverty with a dysfunctional mother and absent father.

Impermanence

wonderful story of life

Sorry, I whispered

The search for God, love and sex.

The Damage Done

A short story about a life gone terribly wrong

The Fire

Lindsey survives the attack of a serial killer

Flame wars ~ an essay

communication on the Internet

Soft Bigots ~ 1,000 words

human nature, social commentary

Bear and Opossum

true story, 300 words

Helena - 300 words

a love story

Iphigenia 440 words

Children's fantasy