Randy Zabel

Dad, Aspiring Author-New to Querying, Ph.D., Political Scientist, Russia, new album Break Me Gently now live

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The One Who Waits

What if a town’s daughters disappeared into a curse that kept them young, but never safe? In 1978, the three Collins children disappeared. Forty-seven years later, Tabby Collins returns to her family’s home in Destin, Kansas, shockingly still thirteen. With Tabby’s impossible return, Police Chief Steven Washington must confront his family legacy and reckon with Destin’s secret: a supernatural contract with the one who waits. In payment for the Bleeding Kansas massacre of Mott, Kansas, parents offer their daughters to wait in purgatory, while religious and city leaders carry out the pact across generations. In the Tradition of Mexican Gothic, for readers who enjoy the gothic haunting of A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher, and the folklore tradition and family secrets of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix.

I write an intention that tells the reader, ‘now we have come to the truth.’ Not with a demand but with an invitation. Not with a raised voice but with a whisper, sometimes with silence even. I ask ‘Look. Do not turn away. But do not lose heart either.’ The whisper is not omniscient, but it is present, not detached but intimate, not narrator but witness. I ask the reader to live in two worlds, the real and the divine. To allow themselves to grasp fragments of both.

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@theGrimWriter Well, see, they sort of just show up and introduce themselves and I'm like, "Hey, glad to meet you. Tell me about yourself."

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@pensandpoison Steinbeck conservative? Uh, are we talking about the same Steinbeck?

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@A_J_Luther Chapters and/or sections

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@PaulAnleitner 1 the whole thing including rhe language blurred French and Russian revolutions. 2 if he based the character on a young Stalin then he missed

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@wendyfields117 @CFBHome 3 west coast teams in Supers. 9 southern teams in Supers.

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@NixAshes I just had this discussion because Word spell check kept auto-correcting me typing west Texas. I was like I know where West, Tx is Lubbock is west not West.

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@jenteach13 "I've watched politicians make decisions about my classroom for 30 years without ever stepping into one"

Which is why government and politicians should not control education.

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@jenteach13 You OP was missing that nuance and many have made similar claims. Again, CTE programs have value and it was a mistake to cut them.

But to 'fix' education is fundamentally a different problem. The only real first step is to rid education of government and politicians.

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@jenteach13 CTE is valuable yes but it doesn't fix education. Public schools aren't teaching the basics of reading, math, history etc.

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@Bdrumm_OUI The script said game seven

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@mrmikeMTL None - never failed a subject

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@mrmikeMTL Well, uh, me.

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@wordrefiner Never trust any human or application to be without error. That does not mean don't use them (human or application), do so with your eyes open.

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@MadelaineLucyH Any and every tool I use is limited to - show me errors not solutions. Dyslexia poses interesting challenges and having scrambled words or missing punctuation pointed out is great. Ive yet to see ai write a sentence that makes me say yeah I'll use that.

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@ElChandler Debate

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@StevenTBoers63 Ive written two manuscripts based on photos

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@CourtSunnyYay Should'a could'a - dont give me your stupid excuse
Ain't that something - that's stupid
None'a you'll - no one
Your mama an' them - your famil, extended family, neighbors

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@HDunn_Writer Nope