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August 9, 2017
#RRBC WATCH “RWISA” WRITE SHOWCASE TOUR, Day 9 @jhawker69
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Welcome to Day 9 of the RWISA Showcase Blog Tour. Here’s RRBC author Ron Yates:
THE LEGEND OF TOKYO ROSE By Ronald E. YatesINTRODUCTION
During a 27-year career with the Chicago Tribune, much of it as a foreign correspondent in Asia and Latin America, I encountered my share of remarkable and unforgettable stories.
Some came out of the horrendous suffering I witnessed while covering the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Afghanistan. Others were generated by the bloody revolutions in Guatemala an...
August 8, 2017
#RRBC WATCH “RWISA” WRITE SHOWCASE TOUR @MichelleAbbott4
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Today, Day 8 of the RWISA Showcase Blog Tour, we welcome RRBC author Michelle Abbott!
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The 136by Michelle Abbott
I can do this. I can make it. Wet hair plastered to my head, gasping, I propel myself toward my target. The 136 bus. My heel catches on a crack in the pavement. My ankle twists sideways, sending a sharp pain up my leg. Wincing, I hobble towards the stop, just as the bus closes its doors and pulls away.
“Ahhh,” I scream in frustration.
“Here, use my umbrella.”
His voice startles m...
August 6, 2017
#RRBC WATCH “RWISA” WRITE SHOWCASE TOUR Day 7 @rijanjks
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Welcome to Day 7 of the #RRBC RWISA Showcase Tour and Guest Blogger Jan Sikes:
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T By Jan SikesHenry Jacobsen ran gnarled fingers through 84 years of living and swatted at a fly that buzzed around his head. The sun warmed his old bones and he turned to face his longtime friend. “You know, Aaron, what the world needs now, is for people to show a little more respect to each other. Back in my day, if I acted or talked disrespectful, I got my hide tanned.”
The wooden boards underneat...
August 5, 2017
#RRBC WATCH “RWISA” WRITE SHOWCASE TOUR Day 6 @WendyJayneScott
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Today I’d like to welcome #RRBC author Wendy Scott:
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Navigator by Wendy ScottLuke’s body whirled through the portal in a kaleidoscope of starlight and rainbows. Burnt ozone stung his nostrils, and his stomach roiled as if live dragonflies flitted inside. He clutched his grandfather’s palm tighter, the only connection anchoring them together while they spun into the void, guided by the compass in his grandfather’s other hand.
“We’re here.” His grandfather’s words whistled with wheeziness.
He...
August 4, 2017
WATCH “RWISA” WRITE SHOWCASE TOUR Day 5 #RRBC author @gmplano
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Welcome to Day 5 of the #RRBC RWISA Showcase Tour and Guest Blogger Gwen Plano:
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Love at First Sight By Gwendolyn M Plano“It doesn’t seem real. It just doesn’t seem real.” Mom muttered as she ran her hand over the curves of dad’s headstone. Sighing deeply, she stared blankly into the horizon.
After a few minutes, she turned and faced me. “I tell myself that it must be real.” She seemed to want my approval. “The stone says we were married 70 years. It must have happened; I must have been mar...
August 3, 2017
#RRBC WATCH “RWISA” WRITE SHOWCASE TOUR Day 4 @BeemWeeks
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Today I’d like to welcome #RRBC author Beem Weeks:
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Wordless by Beem Weeks“What’s that word say?”
“That’s an easy one, Daddy. Just sound it out.”
Levi Bacchus can’t read. 36 years old, and he’d never learned the meaning of a single sentence.
“I just ain’t cut out for this, Jamie Lynn.”
The girl’s countenance dropped in disagreement—just like her mother, that one.
“So, you’re a quitter now?” she bellowed, sounding too much like the woman who’d walked out of their lives two years earlier.
Lev...
August 2, 2017
#RRBC WATCH “RWISA” WRITE SHOWCASE TOUR Day 3 @lauriebethart
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Today I’d like to welcome #RRBC author Laurie Beth Finkelstein:
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Bulletproof Vest By Laurie FinkelsteinThe bulk, padding, and steel plates weigh me down. The protection of a bulletproof vest is necessary. No matter the weather, I wear the cloak. The weight is a burden, but I trek on because wrapped is the only way to navigate my journey. The jacket protects my heart from being blown to crimson shards of death.
A direct hit is avoided for days and nights, lulling me into calm and complacency...
August 1, 2017
WATCH “RWISA” WRITE SHOWCASE TOUR #RRBC author @KIngallsAuthor
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Today I’d like to welcome #RRBC RWISA author Karen Ingalls.
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A FISHY DAY by Karen IngallsIt was one of those wonderful August days when the sun was high and warm in the sky. The big cumulus clouds slowly drifted by, creating designs that filled Jim’s imagination, who at nine years could see all kinds of amazing sights. He had been playing with his model airplane in his aunt and uncle’s yard, where he spent the summers on their ranch in San Diego, California. Staying with Uncle Leon and Aunt...
WATCH “RWISA” WRITE SHOWCASE TOUR #RRBC author @YvetteMCalleiro
Today I’d like to welcome #RRBC RWISA author Yvette M. Calleiro !
Yvette: RWISA is the Rave Writers – International Society of Authors, a prestigious organization that prides itself on including incredible INDIE authors. I was recently accepted into this amazing group and am thrilled to help promote the talented works of RWISA authors. I was chosen as the author for day one, so here is a new poem that I recently wrote. Enjoy!
Words By Yvette M CalleiroThe written word and I...
July 24, 2017
5 Star Review of Nicholas DiGiovanni’s #memoir #MondayBlogs
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How strange that a book so unrelentingly about death should contain so much life. But that’s what we have in “Man Has Premonition of Own Death,” which stands athwart decay and demands to know why.
The book title copies the headline that appeared above a 1925 story in a Yonkers newspaper about a young man who uttered something of a prophecy shortly before he was fatally injured in a gruesome industrial accident. The young man was the author’s great-uncle, and it’s fair to say that Nicholas D...
