Content: identity

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I wrote this poem about eight years ago when pondering the subject of survival. The body is mortal, but what survives is the reputation. But how many people are conscious of this fact? Does the poem make you aware of the fluid nature of life and time?

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After working for a while in a public guardianship program for the elderly, I became interested in what happens to people who lose their rights, their homes and friends, all the memorabilia of their lives. Stuck in an impersonal nursing home, what do they find to make life worth living.

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A Brooklyn teacher named Charlie Maiks retells at gunpoint the story behind his current predicament while in a separate but related story line a character's life in Argentina during the Dirty War develops into one of the root causes of the Charlie's nightmare.

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The grottos of New York City can be a terrifying place for any twenty-five year old, especially for a recent Ivy League drop-out, especially when you’ve been spoon-fed caviar since the cradle. In his final year at Amherst, Ethan Elliot—privileged heir to the QuikClean dynasty—flees New England, abandons a promising future at a top financial firm and moves into a loft on the outskirts of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in hopes of finding something “greener.� What he finds is anything but. Instead, he’s hurtled far from the boroughs of New York on a life-altering, cross-country, roller-coaster ride into the bowels of Middle America with Jules and Wolfgang, his just-as-lost tour guides, each of them towing their own trunk-full of emotional “drag-age.� They take off in a derelict Chevy Chevelle expecting to find Jules’ deceased biological mother, Lisa; themselves, and the world they once knew. What they don’t expect is to be taken hostage by a schizophrenic family member that none of they have ever met. However, it’s not until they come upon Lisa’s Law: an edict of good will penned by the namesake to “make a long-lasting impression on at least one other life, for the better� that the central theme begins to surface. The Law of Lilies is a character driven, coming of age story about forgiveness, survival, and our redemption as a human race. It takes the reader through Ethan’s slapdash, and often times frightening view of today’s America. But more than simply a story about a character’s fruition; at approximately 60,000 words, it’s a challenge to the reader to make the world a more beautiful place, regardless of the ugliness of one’s past. Thrid round draft. Looking for any advice: creative, technical, what have you.

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Part II of "Back to the Start Again," where we learn what Jack Pryor's been hiding, from whom, and for what reasons.

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A man has taken his own life, hanged himself from a tree, and reporter Jack Pryor goes out to the scene to investigate. While he looks at the crime scene, the police chief slips him a note: someone knows he's there, and that someone wants to see him at the Deadman's Lounge. So, Jack goes into the City, only to find out a series of strange coincidences, including the beautiful woman at the Deadman's Lounge who may know more about Jack that he wants anyone else to know.

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