For many years I wrote about fiction, story, belief, ordinary life, and the questions that shaped my work. More than two thousand essays remain here—not because every one represents my current thinking, but because together they tell the story of a writer learning over time.
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The Boaz Scorekeeper–1st ten chapters
Prologue Kaden Tanner was awakened by a phone call at 6:00 a.m. Monday morning. It was his father, Lewis, telling him his grandfather had passed away. Micaden Lewis…
Chapter 1 “Let’s kill all the lawyers,” Shakespeare said in his play ‘Henry VI.’ “Let’s kill all the infidels,” Radical Muslims say in real life. These Muslims aren’t…
Richard L. Fricks 