Tag: orphan
member name: Roger Kiser
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January 05, 2008 10:57 AM EST --
If I may, I would like to make a few points that may be beneficial to a few of you interested in publishing a book.
No matter how good your story (or my story is); if you do not do the hard work your . . . more
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November 06, 2007 11:50 AM EST --
The CDs of "AMERICAN ORPHAN" (The best stories of Roger Dean Kiser) just arrived this morning and are now available at: http://www.geocities.com/trampolineone/survive/srv080.htm
The sale of . . . more
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July 11, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
My husband told me to tell you, "That you better not use his name in that damn book of yours," she yelled at me over the phone. I just stood there very quiet, not knowing what to say.
The last . . . more
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February 13, 2008 04:52 PM EST --
I must have lost head when I agreed to go shopping with my wife this morning. Am I so retarded and is my brain so small that I have forgotten the never-ending circles she always travels, looking at hundreds . . . more
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June 10, 2008 09:17 PM EDT --
My short story titled "THE BULLY" was made into a short film by Edward Asner and producer/director Nicholas Delfino.
It was very unusal to see one work on film. One day just a memory and . . . more
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June 15, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Til Death Do Us Part
Between the ages of six and fifteen, I had witnessed two murders, possibly three. I had seen at least ten dead bodies lying in the street, all while living on the streets, and . . . more
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August 08, 2007 09:16 AM EDT --
Having been raised most of my young life in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage, I, along with many other kids, was not familiar with the feeling of ‘love.' ‘Love' was just a . . . more
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July 20, 2007 03:48 PM EDT --
Just received my audio short story CDs in the mail this morning. I have to warn you these are stories about my years of abuse in a Florida Orphanage. However, the language is clean and the stories . . . more
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June 05, 2008 10:32 AM EDT --
I realize as responsible adults we must watch what we say, especially when children and grandchildren are in the area.
I am probably one of the most impatient men living on the face of this earth or . . . more
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August 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
Well, many of my gather friends suggested that I take ten days to think things over before deciding to close our home child advocate's office. The individual who flagged my article, advising people . . . more
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September 04, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
I was thirteen years old when I watched the Donna reed show for the first time. I had been living in the Children's Home Society Orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida for almost seven years.
I had no . . . more
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June 26, 2008 09:37 PM EDT --
During the triple points ordeal I ask my gather friends to help me raise enough points to get a Home Depot gift card to help my son build a shed for his lawnmower and tools. I was able to get $125.00 . . . more
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October 17, 2007 08:57 PM EDT --
Needing to get something laminated I headed down to Staples Office Supply. Getting out of my truck I saw a Coca Cola stand set up in front of the store. Written on the side was a hand printed poster which . . . more
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May 16, 2008 09:48 PM EDT --
As I write my stories and can sometimes look back into my past, occasionally I get a glimpse of what I felt as a little boy. I can see myself clearly as a little boy and remember almost everything that . . . more
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August 23, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
I remember very the first time I met him. I couldn't have been 12 years old or so; I really can't remember my exact age.
I was ordered by the Juvenile Judge, Marion Gooding to go with this . . . more
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August 24, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
It had been many a year since I stood in front of Preston's Drug store. It is located where Beach and Atlantic Boulevard come together on the south side of Jacksonville, Florida.
This was the store . . . more
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April 12, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
If I had to choose just one person who has affected my life more than any other individual, it would have to be Mayme Winters or "Mother Winters," as we called her at the orphanage.
I am not . . . more
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May 01, 2008 07:45 AM EDT --
It was "May Day." All the children from the Spring Park Elementary School had gathered on the school grounds for the May Day Maypole dance.
This dance involves many short flagpoles, with . . . more
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June 09, 2008 04:54 PM EDT --
THE MOST HONEST MAN I EVER KNEW
Thinking back upon my younger days as a child in the orphanage, then later on to my teenage reform school days, a few jail days, and finally my adult days in prison; . . . more
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June 20, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
I know that everyone who has grandchildren is very proud of them. There is this hope that their offspring will have a happy life and that the world will be a much better place than it was when they were . . . more
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