Since the two characters aren’t ready to leave my head just yet, I decided to extend the short story I posted yesterday to see where these ideas take me (see JUST ADDED in the previous post). Preachers are interesting characters to write about. They have deep belief. They inspire faith. They have a following. And everyone brings their own notions of what these men and women should be about to a story whether they realize it or not. That makes it somewhat easier on a writer in that we don’t have to provide as much character background, but I couldn’t help myself in this case. I have big plans for Preacher White. He’s no ordinary man. (more…)
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Arnie Braugher showed up before the air around the grocery store was heavy with donut smell and the traffic light at the main intersection on the highway stopped flashing red. The parking lot, as usual, was occupied by a couple compact cars belonging to the bakery employees only this morning they’d caught some newspapers under wheel that had been blown from a nearby display. On the sidewalk, chained to a support pole, there was a battered boy’s bicycle that someone had abandoned a few weeks before – that the store manager could not bring himself to cut free on the chance that whoever left it there might change their mind, do the right thing, and claim it. (more…)
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