Tag: child abuse
group name: writespeak
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October 09, 2007 03:32 AM EDT --
I have written hundreds of stories and many articles, and I have fought for years, trying to tell the world that abuse, of all types, is flaring out of control. It is almost to the point that it cannot . . . more
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January 11, 2008 01:05 PM EST --
"Hello, Roger. My name is Mrs. McGarvey and I am your friend," said the dark haired woman sitting across from me. "How old are you?"
"I'm 6 now."
"Do you know . . . 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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August 05, 2008 04:16 PM EDT --
CAT'S CRADLE
The Woman in the Swamp
by
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October 09, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
I just wanted to take a moment and thank those of you who purchased one of my books.
I just received a letter from someone on gather who thanked me for the book and CD. I included a free CD of my stories . . . more
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October 25, 2007 08:11 PM EDT --
I don't remember us orphans being worried about getting in trouble with God. God was someone you had to deal with after you were dead. We had a long, long time before we were gonna be dead.
As . . . more
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July 10, 2007 07:40 PM EDT --
Once again, I sat alone in my bedroom. I had been sent to bed because I refused to eat a plate of boiled okra and eggplant, which we had been given for supper.
Slowly and very carefully, I opened the . . . 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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September 13, 2007 07:26 AM EDT --
"The transformation of life into commodities kills."
From Len Bracken's The New China Syndrome
In yesterday's (Sept. 12, 2007) senate subcommittee hearing on the China-Mattel lead . . . more
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November 03, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
I was a little disappointed when I saw the old buildings were now gone that I had known as a young boy. Every one of them replaced with a high-rise. It had been a long time since I had been to Jacksonville, . . . more
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September 11, 2007 03:04 PM EDT --
I love to look at the pictures of my beautiful home, my beautiful lawn, my beautiful trees, my beautiful wife and my beautiful children. The only thing that did not photograph very beautifully was the . . . more
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September 15, 2007 02:21 PM EDT --
I am not really sure how I feel about Foster Parents. Most of my life was spent in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage. I did go to a foster home for about three months, when I was about twelve years old. . . . more
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September 19, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
I guess I was eight or nine years old when I went to the beach for the very first time.
Living in an orphanage we kids never got to do much of anything, especially any of the fun things that other children . . . more
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July 24, 2007 03:54 PM EDT --
"It's really cold," said Wayne as we boys huddled in a tight group. The temperature was down to around 38 degrees. That was unusual for this time of year. Jacksonville, Florida rarely ever . . . 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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October 19, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
I suppose most children are raised in what society considers being ‘a normal lifestyle.' Once leaving home they head out into the world and try to create, as best they can, a lifestyle based . . . more
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November 02, 2007 10:02 PM EDT --
"I'm going to tell you boys something right now," said Mother Winters, the head matron of the orphanage where we lived. "I'm going to tell you one time and one time only. If you . . . more
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September 09, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
In the center of the orphanage grounds stood a very large and beautiful oak tree. It appeared to be about a 1,000 years old to me. It was very tall and had large limbs that spread out more than 50 feet . . . more
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March 20, 2008 05:48 AM EDT --
As some may know , I work a lot with people surviving PTSD issues, often through the Jungian approach of going into the psyche's unconscious language. It is a very symbolically expressed . . . more
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May 25, 2008 04:53 PM EDT --
"You ever put me in that position again and I'll cut your damn throat. Do you understand that young man?" screamed Mother Winters, the head matron of the Children's Home Society, located . . . more
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