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Stories from the Crowd: There’s No Taking the Teacher Out of Me
by Bettepat Miller Graves It’s been twenty years since I’ve been a full-time educator. Yet, I still find myself going back to my professional training. I recently found myself in a “teachable moment”…
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Stories from the Crowd: From Balls to Screwballs to Highballs
by Bob Emerson Recorded at Creek Haus on the banks of Cypress Creek in Wimberley, Texas on a brisk afternoon in March of 2013. Excerpt FromStories from the CrowdScott BallewThis material may be…
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Stories from the Crowd: My Brush with the Tower Sniper
by Forrest Preece, August 01, 1966 I shot this photograph on April 1st, 2007 from the west side of The University of Texas tower’s observation deck. This was the first time I had…
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Stories from the Crowd: Rescue in the Night
by Toby Johnson Author; Gay Perspective, Two Spirits, Secret Mattertobyjohnson.com Production Manager/hi-tech guy,Lethe Presslethepressbooks.com Early one Saturday morning I was awakened by the ring of the telephone. It was 1980 and telephones had…
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Stories from the Crowd: Postscripts from Tiananmen Square
by Candace Partridge “Every trip that sustains us is in fact a journey home. Perhaps the dragons guarding our way are princesses in possession of the lost key to that place we seek.”…
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Stories from the Crowd: Military Intervention
“Saved by the Uniform” by David Callahan At the age of thirteen I had life all figured out. I was out and proud to my supportive parents and most of my close friends.…
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Stories from the Crowd
In 2013, I embarked on publishing a crowd-sourced book. I asked many friends to contribute a short story, which I then published on Apple Books. However, the eBook format wasn’t something everyone embraced,…