Posts Tagged ‘pack-selects’

My Brother John . . . in BYSTANDER

When I was writing the first draft for BYSTANDER, I had to contend with the issue of the new boy in town, Eric Hayes. I knew he would have a problem with a bully — but why? My sense of bullies is that they are  cunning, predatory, keen and careful in the targets they select. So Eric, I decided, needed some kind of vulnerability. Something subtle, but nonetheless something that an astute boy could perceive, the way the wolf pack selects the weakest in the herd. I thought of my brother, John, ei

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A Cowboy in the Jungle: Theodore Roosevelt and the River of Doubt

“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die.” -Theodore Roosevelt Sailing out of the New York harbor, Theodore Roosevelt had little indication that the journey he was embarking on, which he had referred to as “ a delightful holiday ” with “ just the right amount of adventure ,” would be the hardest test of his notoriously strenuous life .  Reeling from his recent defeat as the Progressive Party’s nominee in the 1912 presidential elections, Roosevelt needed to get away.  Near the e

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Ladies Beware: Online Romance Could be a Scam

Posted by: lynx on: Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 In: Press Release| Romance - GeneralComment! Tess was drawn into an online romance when she met a man that made her feel everything she had ever wanted to feel inside. She felt loved, desired, interested, wanted, and she felt alive for the first time in a long time. After sending twenty thousand dollars to the man of her dreams, she discovered it was all a lie. After being crushed learning she was a victim of a network of scammers, she decided t

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