Bøger af Timothy Cole

The twenty-six short stories found in this book were written as exercises responding to prompt challenges assigned at least twice a month to a group of authors in a writers' club. A creative work based on one or more of five prompts had to be composed and presented within 48 hours to the assembled group for critique. One of the prompts was always a picture of a scene, an event, or a person; the others were typically given as a character, a place, an object, and a beginning scenario, each being quite specific and unrelated. At least one of the prompts had to be included in the composition. Although each work was expected to be within 2,000 words, some were often longer. All the pieces in this book were presented during the year 2014 to the authors of The Blank Slate Writers Group in Valparaiso, Indiana, and are the creation and property of Timothy Cole, a member.

Fred Cole was youngest child of John Conger Cole and Mary Arville Osborn and arrived as they both turned forty. Fred brought with him a series of illnesses which left him fragile and small, a condition coupled with the fact of the mellowed adulthood of his parents and the protection of his older siblings that shaped the career of his life into that of poet and educator. He was a man well-read and of quick wit, a 1896 graduate of Chesterton High School and of DePauw University, both in Indiana. For many years he was known as "Professor Cole" during his years as the Public Schools Superintendent in Porter County, Indiana. Much of his poetry and many of his songs were only published in the local newspapers of the day, dying lonely deaths in the back pages next to columns of ads for ointments and farm equipment. Soon after his death in 1959, his surviving, written works were collected and edited for eventual publication. This is that collection.

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