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Dale Tucker, Novelist

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Category: Literature

Tucker’s 2023 Novel Available Here!

July 21, 2024January 3, 2025 — Posted inIndie Novel, Literature — 3 min read

Wanderer Come Home by Dale Tucker   A fascinating odyssey into the natural homeland of the soul! *  *  *  * Wanderer Come Home follows the turning points in the lives of two men whose paths, it would seem, should never cross though eventually and […]

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Datesville Chapter 5

December 8, 2023July 21, 2024 — Posted inBeta Sample, Literature — 25 min read

Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 5 — An Orwellian Supper   Concerning my pen name, as mentioned earlier, I began using Harvey Orange in order to disguise the authorship of my articles, though I can’t honestly say that it has helped […]

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Datesville, Chapter 4

November 17, 2023July 21, 2024 — Posted inBeta Sample, Literature — 21 min read

Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 4 — The Hideous Depression   After my return from Central City and a brief, two-day visit with Mom, I fly back to New York.  And as agreed, I call Todd Willingham a couple of days […]

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Datesville, Chapter 3

October 30, 2023July 21, 2024 — Posted inBeta Sample, Literature — 24 min read

Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 3 — A Body in Central City   I’m Scotched up and stewing in the back seat.  Mister Chuba guns the engine, and the cab barrels south on the turnpike, away from downtown, toward what they […]

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Datesville, Chapter 2

October 12, 2023July 21, 2024 — Posted inBeta Sample, Literature — 24 min read

Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 2 — The Tinpot Emperor   Purcell and I have lunch in what he calls the “Emperor’s Dining Hall”.  It’s only one of three dining rooms in the apartment, but it’s the most lavished and expensively […]

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Datesville, Chapter 1

September 25, 2023July 21, 2024 — Posted inBeta Sample, Literature — 30 min read

Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 1 — The Bermuda Hotel   My legal name is Henry Thakur but I’m currently going by “Harvey Orange” as a pen name for a couple of different reasons.  It’s complicated so I’ll try to explain […]

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The History of an Idea — Part 3

September 8, 2023September 10, 2023 — Posted inDreams, Evolution of an Idea, Literature — 2 min read

So I had this dream one night—a very vivid dream—of a dystopian setting in which people were attending a local music concert (see Part 1).  I remembered it very clearly when I woke, and it bothered me.  Its setting was reminiscent of what I […]

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The History of an Idea — Part 2

August 31, 2023 — Posted inAmerican History, Family, Literature, Writing Talk — 3 min read

  In an American History course I took in college, the professor stated in a lecture that economic depressions, like the so called “Great Depression” of the 1930s, have happened regularly during the course of the history of the United States.  And to make […]

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My Current Work: “Datesville — Out of the Land of Bondage!”

August 21, 2023August 21, 2023 — Posted inLiterature, Reading — 7 min read

My current work is a dystopian novel, set in the year 2068 titled: Datesville; Out of the Land of Bondage!  A so called “Grand Depression” has engulfed the United States of America since 2029, almost forty years, and it seems endless to the millions […]

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The History of an Idea — Part 1

August 19, 2023 — Posted inDiscuss Writing Craft, Literature — 5 min read

A few years ago I had a rather vivid dream.  And when I awoke, I remembered its details clearly and I thought about it a lot.  It prompted the setting for the scene which I’ve included below.  So rather than describe my dream, I […]

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Jeap’s Holler — Chapter IX

May 21, 2023July 16, 2023 — Posted inLiterature, Writing Sample — 7 min read

Here is the final chapter I have written of Jeap’s Holler.  And it ends abruptly because it is not finished. I should mention also that I have had some trouble with spammers, flooding posts on this blog with lengthy comments, pushing a variety of […]

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Jeap’s Holler — Chapter VIII

March 17, 2023March 18, 2023 — Posted inLiterature, Writing Sample — 9 min read

Here’s another chapter of “Jeap’s Holler”.  If you’ve landed here for the first time, scroll down to read the other seven chapters of this story.  I have only one more chapter that hasn’t been posted so obviously the work is unfinished.  But in reviewing […]

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Jeap’s Holler — Chapter VII

February 26, 2023 — Posted inLiterature, Writing Sample — 6 min read

  J.C. and Jean strolled slowly together on the gravel driveway in the hot sunlight.  They arrived at the tailgate of Jean’s square, green pickup truck whose paint had erupted into pocks across the top and hood. She reached out and affectionately patted the […]

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Jeap’s Holler — Chapter VI

February 19, 2023February 28, 2023 — Posted inLiterature, Writing Sample — 7 min read

  About half the towners who lived in Jeap’s Holler owned motor vehicles of one sort or another.  J.C. was not one of them.  He owned a fat-tire bicycle and kept its chain oiled.  It had a tote trailer attached to the back which […]

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About me

Dale Tucker is a writer of literary fiction who enjoys solitude, nature, and cooking. His subject matter falls within the shared experiences, moral sensitivities, spirituality and hopes of common American people. These characteristics are, of course, broad in range and universal in some aspects but they are also, in other ways, unique to Americans. Tucker's aim is to elevate the heroism of the under- and working classes to the the position it deserves. Every day there are miracles performed by mothers and grandmothers, fathers and brothers, and by a myriad of invisible individuals who model bravery and exceptionality of character to those who know them. These are those Tucker chooses to write about, not the celebrated and "great".

  • 2023 Release - First Novel
  • About the Author
  • Beta Posts
  • Blog Archive
    • Talk Write Archive
      • Talk Write — The Moving Goalposts
      • Talk Write — Using The Stick-pile
      • Talk Write — A Writing Timeout
      • Talk Write — The Axiom, Part 1
      • Talk Write — The Axiom, Part 2
      • Talk Write — The Axiom, Part 3
      • Talk Write — The "Write Garbage" Advice
      • Talk Write — Watch Movies And Improve Voice
      • Talk Write — On Dialogue
    • Tool Series Archive
      • Tool Series #1 — Observation
      • Tool Series #2 — Writing Multi-Tool
      • Tool Series #2 — Multi-Tool, Part 2
      • Tool #2 — Multi-Tool, Part 3
      • Tool #2 — Multi-Tool, Part 4
  • Books By Dale Tucker - Chapter Samples
    • Wanderer Come Home
      • Prologue — Axel Browne
      • Chapter 1 — 626 Meridian
      • Chapter 2 — The Errand
      • Chapter 3 — The Big Deal
      • Chapter 4 — Typical Day
      • Chapter 5 — The Drowning
      • Chapter 6 — Yellow Frogs
      • Chapter 7 — The Tour
    • Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage!
      • 1 The Bermuda Hotel
      • 2 The Tinpot Emperor
      • 3 A Body in Central City
      • 4 The Hideous Depression
      • 5 An Orwellian Supper
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