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• about the short story

  May 26, 2009

  •         The reader should regard the story (Spring Morning in ’86) included on this RedRoom site, as merely a taste of one aspect of the novel and not  representative of the whole. It is based to some extent on one chapter in the novel, but rest assured that the exclusion in this story of female characters as well as a number of others in the cast of characters, does not typify the bulk ...
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• evoking character

  May 20, 2009

  •    This opening paragraph in the novel will evoke something about the character, Alice, and perhaps even offers a hint about her husband, Ryland Smith. But whatever the faint image of the characters that begins to form in the mind of the reader from this short paragraph, it depends a bit on the reader herself.“Before Alice quit drinking in 1970 she endured airline travel by following a strict ...
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• An Elusive Novel

  May 20, 2009

  • The Winged and Garlanded Nike cannot be pinned down by genre or even by a short description. My short bio might suggest a dry, technically-based attempt by a retired engineer, but that would touch on only a small part of it and would be no more an encompassing summary than one calling it a fifty-year-old murder mystery - which it also is. I began it twenty years ago with the literary intent to ...
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