What We See
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Comment from Pearl Edwards
I didn't expect the meet with Warren to be a simple handover. You've described this confrontation well jim, with tension built up until the next chapter. Great chapter.
Cheers
Valda
reply by the author on 01-May-2024
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I didn't expect the meet with Warren to be a simple handover. You've described this confrontation well jim, with tension built up until the next chapter. Great chapter.
Cheers
Valda
Comment Written 30-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 01-May-2024
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Thanks, Valda. He didn't quite foresee this happening. Now, can he somehow get the upper hand?
Comment from tfawcus
Well, that didn't quite go according to plan, did it? Life wasn't meant to be easy! Especially in a novel. LOL
I'm guessing that shovel may come in handy for more than just grave digging if Warren drops his guard. Warren's hunting rifle at the bottom of the grave would suddenly give Alan the upper hand.
Just one thing. Since the preceding paragraph is in the past tense, should this read 'the next day' instead of 'tomorrow'. I also got an oil change and gassed up the car to prepare for the long car ride tomorrow.?
reply by the author on 01-May-2024
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Well, that didn't quite go according to plan, did it? Life wasn't meant to be easy! Especially in a novel. LOL
I'm guessing that shovel may come in handy for more than just grave digging if Warren drops his guard. Warren's hunting rifle at the bottom of the grave would suddenly give Alan the upper hand.
Just one thing. Since the preceding paragraph is in the past tense, should this read 'the next day' instead of 'tomorrow'. I also got an oil change and gassed up the car to prepare for the long car ride tomorrow.?
Comment Written 30-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 01-May-2024
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Yeah, it would have been pretty boring if he'd gone down there, and Warren just handed it over. Now, how to get Warren to drop his guard?
Comment from Wayne Fowler
Hah! Of course. The victim always has to dig his own grave. (I like it 'cause Warren would live by cliche's.)
FYI - Rural Arkansas in those days would be Rural Route and box numbers (RR4 Bx 232A e.g.). Almost no one put up house numbers. (We didn't even have one.)
Most readers won't be bothered by your words, though.
Best wishes.
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reply by the author on 01-May-2024
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Hah! Of course. The victim always has to dig his own grave. (I like it 'cause Warren would live by cliche's.)
FYI - Rural Arkansas in those days would be Rural Route and box numbers (RR4 Bx 232A e.g.). Almost no one put up house numbers. (We didn't even have one.)
Most readers won't be bothered by your words, though.
Best wishes.
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Comment Written 30-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 01-May-2024
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Huh, no house numbers. Thanks for pointing out the anachronism. Did the streets even have names?
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Yes on street names. But for directions - "Fourth place down Old Jasper road. Now be sure to count all of 'em (meaning the abandoned ones too)." Or, It's the one with the big sweet gum and white chickens (meaning the chickens were in the yard).
Many roads had 'unofficial' names - Johnson Road (Bill Johnson owned most of the land), or Quarry Road because the count quarry was at the end. But the official name might be FM 1821 (Farm Road), or CR 5 (County Road).
I retired as Postmaster. It was routine for UPS to come in and beg rural carriers' route data, especially when the P.O. regularly changed route and box numbers due to growth.
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Sorry to belabor the issue, but in rural areas, the numbers generally reflected (even back then) distances - a house a mile out would be #1000, 2 miles out - #2000. In E-911 addressing each one's digit indicates five feet to the center of the driveway from the road's starting point.
(Sorry, I thought you might find the excessive info interesting.) smiley face here
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Indeed fascinating. What a marvelous and precise system!
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That's interesting. Was that a full or part-time job being postmaster?
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Full. I was a clerk, then a carrier, then supv, and retired as a Postmaster.
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So, do they still use the rural route scheme or is that a thing of the past now?
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mostly past.
E-911 addressing is pretty much universal down here. Sure make it easier adjusting routes! (Routes are adjusted annually to allow for 40hr/week for carriers. Of course, stagnant routes need no adjustment.
Comment from LJbutterfly
Wow! I surely wasn't expecting anything that happened in this chapter. You've provided a compelling and incredible twist. I can't begin to imagine where this will go. Alan is in over his head...maybe. I'm tempted to sit here at my computer and wait until I see Chapter 40 pop up. This is very well done.
reply by the author on 01-May-2024
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Wow! I surely wasn't expecting anything that happened in this chapter. You've provided a compelling and incredible twist. I can't begin to imagine where this will go. Alan is in over his head...maybe. I'm tempted to sit here at my computer and wait until I see Chapter 40 pop up. This is very well done.
Comment Written 30-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 01-May-2024
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Thanks very much, Lorraine and for the six stars too. How can Alan turn this around? That's the question.
Comment from royowen
Now this is really excotng Jim, Warren got lucky and got the drop on Allen, perhaps he'll think he got lucky and find a gambling Game. Why? That's the way gambling addiction works, it's darn hard to be rid of it, beautifully written, blessings Roy
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Now this is really excotng Jim, Warren got lucky and got the drop on Allen, perhaps he'll think he got lucky and find a gambling Game. Why? That's the way gambling addiction works, it's darn hard to be rid of it, beautifully written, blessings Roy
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Comment Written 30-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 01-May-2024
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Thanks, Roy. Yes, Warren did get lucky. Can Alan ever get a break? Nothing is ever simple.
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You?re so right Jim