Author: Jim Kepler
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First stab at fiction
Prompt 3: Using the Pentoprint First Line Generator, click the pink button that reads, “generate first line” “She knew something was wrong when she looked at her baby for the first time, she just couldn’t love it.” How could she love a reminder of such trauma and pain? She didn’t even know who the father…
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On loneliness and aloneness
I recall not too many years ago reading an article or an obituary about someone who was born in the eighteen-eighties or -nineties. That doesn’t happen anymore. Now there simply isn’t anyone living who was born before 1900. No one. It seems a trivial thing to notice. But it’s there: a reminder that I’m not…
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I make books
Assignment: Introduce yourself in a few words or sentences. I make books. That was my elevator speech. And I’ve done it for fifty years. There’s not a lot that I know about anything else. I wrote textbooks, (social studies & language arts), healthcare, and business I know how books are edited differently from newspapers, magazines,…