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STORIES 1999-2002

"Non-non-fiction" may stretch a point but seems like a proper heading in a website so filled with other kinds of writing. In any case, this is fiction.

Any resemblances to real people and events in these pieces are coincidental.

 

31 March 1999; last modified 18 August 2002 Copyright © 2001 Richard P. Richter

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STORIES 1999-2002

TRIPTYCH: LIVING AS A DIALOGUE ON DYING Three scenes from the lives of two old friends after 9-11. (18 August 2002)

ARAB TALKING Talk is the stuff of feeling, not of sense. (16 February 2002)

An essay in a fictional frame: NAVITSKY'S MARX, AT LAST The tragic Karl Marx of the 20th century metamorphoses into a comic Marx and promises a continuing afterlife as the 21st unfolds. (14 January 2001)

THE FATHERS A walker at Valley Forge conspires with the Father of our Country to arrange a kind of family destiny. (5 February 2000)

HOMETOWN VARIATIONS: 3 STORIES:

1. THE WITNESSES AGAINST WHITTAKER CHAMBERS & ALGER HISS A surprise meeting closes a case left unsettled a lifetime ago. (21 December 1999).

2. FRANKIE JONES CAME BACK TO TOWN The indelible memory of a girlfriend's murder draws a hometown guy back after a lifetime on the road. (11 July 1999)

3. JUST THE LOCK-KEEPER'S DAUGHTER An aging accountant discovers that his past life in his hometown never quite added up to a complete answer. (4 May 1999)

 

31 March 1999; last modified 18 August 2002 Copyright © 2001 Richard P. Richter