Tag: short stories
member name: Ron Jenkins
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March 23, 2009 12:35 PM EDT --
Today, another newspaper closed it doors. The Rocky Mountain News. This recent end of another rag brings the grand total to...120 newspapers ending printed publication since January 2008. However, the . . .
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July 09, 2007 11:59 PM EDT --
I slammed the door again on my way out just to get my 11-year-old point across with some punctuation, and shoved my hands in the pockets of my striped bell-bottoms. Out in the yard, pocked with holes dug . . .
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March 18, 2009 09:13 PM EDT --
Roy G. Biv passed away today in Hoopup, PA at the age of 93. Mr. Biv was famous for his name being used by school children to learn the primary colors. Once, before the "No Child Left Behind Act," . . .
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April 04, 2009 01:12 PM EDT --
"I don't care if I ever see another coconut as long as I live," I yelled to Breedlove who was reaching over the side of the boat. He fished out two more coconuts from the salty ocean and . . .
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April 06, 2009 01:34 PM EDT --
Breedlove scooped up the dufflebag, and picked up two full bottles of rum near our fire. He shoved them in the bag along with the four remaining bottles. Two empty bottles lay nearby and he tossed one . . .
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October 13, 2007 03:34 PM EDT --
The boy walked the path that rose upward leading to the farm perched on the side of the hill in Appalachian country. The autumn sun was weak and miserly with its warmth, and he fastened the top button . . .
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March 03, 2009 07:30 PM EST --
From the porch, the fog is held against its will by the green fingers of pines growing on the mountain. The dog howls again from a distant place. Not a good omen from what Mama used to . . .
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July 09, 2007 02:22 PM EDT --
Ron Breedlove has a way with words. His Vietnam memoirs captivate the reader, at times putting them in the driver's seat. I've had the pleasure to read his material, and I'm never disappointed. . . .
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April 03, 2009 09:44 PM EDT --
The dark night set in with a deadly silence. The game of cat and mouse had begun for Breedlove and me. The ship was gaining in the night, and the only reason we knew it was...because the chugging motors . . .
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April 04, 2009 10:38 PM EDT --
Breedlove saw it first. I thought it was the rum. An island as uncharted as the waters our boat rode upon.
"Land Ho," Breedlove yelled, standing up in the stern of the boat and posing . . .
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April 02, 2009 12:50 PM EDT --
Breedlove seemed to know his way around the ship like he'd been born on it, and when he took me through a series of maze-like corridors, I wondered if we'd ever find our way back to the furnace . . .
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April 01, 2009 08:28 PM EDT --
The cabin provided by the Malaysian Princess's Captain was barely big enough for one person, let alone two. Breedlove, of course jumped into the bottom bunk the minute we arrived. I lay back on the . . .
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March 09, 2009 12:59 PM EDT --
It was a long stretching line of people for such a small town, I thought. A skinny man standing underneath the dangling orange and blue sign of the brick building housing the . . .
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April 02, 2009 02:18 PM EDT --
Due to popular demand, the Official Kilgore Trout of Gather is giving you an opportunity of a lifetime, sort of like Mr. Haney on Green Acres. Tens of thousands of people across the globe have asked me . . .
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July 10, 2007 02:21 AM EDT --
Can you guess what it is?
www.ronnierayjenkins.com
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April 04, 2009 12:09 PM EDT --
As many of you know, and much more of you don't know, Finding the Lagopians is a series soon to be made into a moving picture. It's going to be a talkie to top it off, and will be in color as . . .
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