A new story is up now on my storytelling page, Tell Your True Tale.
Check out Help Needed by Kansas writer and poet Rachel Kimbrough. She’s a great writer.
And feel free to send in stories of your own. There’s usually a bit of a backlog, but I’m always eager to look at new submissions.
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On Tell Your True Tale — my storytelling page –David Orr contributes a new story about his first day in Catholic school.
Check out “The New Kid.” Very hip story.
Share it if you like it, and send in one of your own…..:)
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This is a sweet obit — of the first black teacher in San Bernardino, who took an elementary school job there in 1942.
She later became the first black superintendent of a school district in California, and has a library named for her.
She passed at 106 years of age.
Quite a life lived.
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A great story in the LA Times today about a prison inmate who taught himself ancient hieroglyphics from his cell in solitary confinement at the state prison in Tehachapi.
He now writes to the Biblical Archaeology Review, arguing the findings of scholars.
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Hey all — I’ll be at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend, with an event both Saturday and Sunday, both at 11:30 a.m.
Digging in the Dirt: A Discussion of Setting as Character
Panel / Sat 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Student Union – Tucson Room
Windows into Their World: Creative Writing with Latino Youth
Nuestras Raíces Workshop
Workshop / Sun 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Integrated Learning Center – Room 141
If you’re in Tucson, drop by…..
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This week on my storytelling website, Tell Your True Tale, South Carolina novelist Michel Stone contributes a story of a Mexican immigrant smuggled into the United States, welded into the belly of a truck.
Angel is powerful stuff.
Check out also Michel’s first novel, just released on Hub City Press: The Iguana Tree.
Hope you like it all. If so, please share it.
And remember, TYTT is open to submissions from anyone — the stories have to be true. I don’t pay but I do edit.
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Some of the best storytelling in many papers, and certainly in the LA Times, is found in the obituaries.
Today there were two that made for great reading, and left me thinking about what it meant to have a life well spent.
Eleanor Callahan, 95, had been the wife and partner and frequent subject of photographer Harry Callahan.
Dr. Edward Shanbrom, 87, was apparently a tireless researcher on all manner of medical topics, but above all developed a detergent for cleansing blood plasma of viruses, including the HIV.
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This week on TYTT, my storytelling page, Laurie Trautman writes the story of her encounter with thieves in Nicaragua.
Check out Dos Camarones (Two Shrimp). Story’s great, nicely told.
Let me know what you think. Better yet, write your own tale and send it in. Your inner writer calls.
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