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"District Days" (in progress)
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Sample Chapter
"The
Hunting Trip"
"The first
day of the hunt found me on a stump in darkness in air so cold and thin
it seemed the oxygen had frozen out of it at some point and dropped to
the ground. The cycle of the moon had taken it far away from where I was
and only the faint pre-dawn glimmer of stars remained in the sky. If I
looked hard enough off at the horizon I could just make out the faintest
trace of daylight pink. Even with the coming light I could make out little
more than dark conifer blobs against the frosted ground."
Other Chapters:
1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8
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"Horizon Dragons" 1993
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Sample Excerpt
"The Trooper"
"When we had
first arrived we joked about the fact that there was a Carolina State Police
patrol car outside the quick-mart. We hadn't smoked any pot in the last
couple of days and had no alcohol on us, so he would have to bust us on
poor hygiene if anything (or thought crimes against the nation - don't
laugh)."
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//SHORT STORIES//
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"Perfectly Good Dogs" 1995
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Sample: "Lawd
I had been swerving and racing ahead of tractor-trailers (to keep their
lights of doom far behind trying to drag me into eternity) too long at
that point to go on any further .... and supping on the last magic frigid
bit of my coffee from styrofoam cup kept us on the road and to the edge
of Chattanooga city limits....goal at 5am." READ
IT
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"Listless Suns and Ten Foot Swells" 1994
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Sample: "Late
that afternoon, as the sun grew listless and lost the power that had fried
us earlier, we walked about their woods. It was a quiet time and I was
about to leave. Those moments hit me always the same way. It wasn't that
I hated goodbyes, it was that I could not BARE them." READ
IT
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"MuMiKuKe" 1994
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Sample: "By
the time tenth grade rolled around I had decided that I was a runner, rather
than a dumb football jock. I ran around with a few prankster fool-smart
asses who were destined to get their own asses kicked. Of course Lingenfelter
was hanging with the jocks. Afternoons in the high school hallways, awaiting
practice, the tension between the runners and the jocks would mount to
the point of confrontation." READ IT
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"The Jacket and the Book of Possibility" 1991
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Sample: "The
donut shop had great french fries. "Happiness comes so easily sometimes",
he thought as he piled high the salt upon his hot spuds. He could care
less about the health-conscious neurotics that crammed into every corner
of the city. High blood pressure could be dealt with in due time. To go
through life second guessing everything you put in your mouth would be
less than sweet. Life is here to live, not to resist, come what may. He
thought it a silly notion to go into each day holding a measuring cup,
carefully selecting the correct proportions of life to ingest. There was
no worry on his brow. He went head-long into life with a shovel. "Live
it up", he thought." READ IT
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//POEMS//
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"The Headstone Arcade"
Draft Sections 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8
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Sample: "So
in a way I there I was waiting
to be sent
into the game of life on
terms formed
by some commission or popular culture
or some other
do-gooder order but then
it came to
me like slowly as though hearing the
carnival cranking
the pump organs of the carousel
beyond the
next ridge pulling me away from all that"
READ IT
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"The God Complexion" 1996
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Sample: "...has
a voice of a thousand angels
coming forth
from the boughs of misery
and is like
a shadow guiding you through alleys
in a strange
city that you've never seen before"
READ
IT
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"Dude Mantra" 1993
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Sample: "I
have no fucking idea
where the
planets are aligned
at this moment
in time"
From - Motives Out On Mars
READ
IT
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"Mange": 1994
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"The Woodhick" 1994
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"Other Poems - Mid 90's"
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"Tar and Feather: Thoughts of a Poetaster" 1991
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Sample: "Capitol
Offense"
"I used to
sit here reading
now I sit
and write..."
READ
IT
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"Shambles: Arranged Words With Occasional Rhyme" 1987-1990
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Sample: "I
set out walking
the moon to
my back
following
the outline
of the railroad
track"
READ
IT
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//OTHER//
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Collaborations: Poem "On Barley Rise" 1993 with Wesley Baker
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