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Heavy Hearts
Scene 1 SETTING: The lobby of the Administrative Building of Texas’ Death Row. A leather couch sits in the middle of the lobby. In front of the couch is… More
King’s Highway
FADE IN: INT. 10 - NORTH OF VANCOUVER, WASH. - PRE-DAWNAERIAL SHOT - TRACKING 18-wheeler owned by David Calarence “DC” Hawkins and Dabney "Doobie” DuBoise SFX KEITH WHITLEY “MARINA… More
Second Chances
INT. LAVON FAMILY LIVING ROOM -- NIGHTSAMMIE, a fleshy 10-year-old child wearing Incredible Hulk Pajamas, rises from the love seat with cordless phone in hand. Absent-mindedly turning the lamp… More
Locker Key
He devoutly watchedfrom the wooden bleachersas his son click, click, clickedhis way around the icein double blades.Layers of clothes prevent the boy’sarms and legs from bendingmaking him stutter stepmore… More
No More With the Neighbors
The year is 1964, things are quiet in our little farming town in upstate Illinois. I am six years old and just starting to learn about the world outside,… More
Six Basement
I was 12 months into my bit in reform school and had caught some kind of awful disease. I had sores all over, with puffy scabs on them. They… More
The Man Scribbles of Big G
Sunday – June 22, 2008Today is one of those days when a million thoughts swirl through my mind and I think to myself: “I need to write some of… More
Poinsett County
—for Uncle DaleOrange-red gravel roads crisscrossedfields where the flat farmland yieldedbales of cotton and tons of soy beans.We planted, chopped, and picked cottonfrom spring into summer through autumnfor fifty… More
A Higher Morality
I. A Moral Revolution Martin Luther King, Jr., at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, and facing three centuries of hatred, racism, and oppression, had a powerful message for… More
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