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 10
Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 10 — Five-Thirty At Joe’s George and I finish our smoke and go back inside. The cafeteria is still packed. “Oh hey, I forgot to tell you—” I say as we worm our way through […]
Datesville, Chapter 9
Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 9 — Who’s Bill Sweeney? Friday: another cold and damp day. There’s nothing to eat here except a couple of handfuls of yellow crumbs which used to be cornbread; George had stored them in a […]
Datesville, Chapter 8
Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 8 — Going With Jesus! A light rain has fallen overnight. The weather has changed and there’s a shroud of fog lying in the jungle and all along the river, but it’s warmer. George […]
Datesville Chapter 7
Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 7 — The Mark of Cain “Granny, I’d like you to meet my pal—” begins George. Teeny Mae still sits in her recliner. Lamar, a strong looking man, stands behind her like a personal bodyguard, […]
Datesville Chapter 6
Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 6 — The River Styx After dinner and a smoke, I gather my things and George volunteers to accompany me back to the hotel. He’s headed that direction anyway, he says, and I’m glad for […]
Datesville Chapter 5
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 […]
Datesville, Chapter 4
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 […]
Datesville, Chapter 3
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 […]
Datesville, Chapter 2
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 […]
Datesville, Chapter 1
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 […]
The History of an Idea — Part 3
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 […]
The History of an Idea — Part 2
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 […]
My Current Work: “Datesville — Out of the Land of Bondage!”
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 […]
