Tag: florida
member name: Roger Kiser
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June 10, 2008 09:17 PM EDT --
My short story titled "THE BULLY" was made into a short film by Edward Asner and producer/director Nicholas Delfino.
It was very unusal to see one work on film. One day just a memory and . . .
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June 15, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Til Death Do Us Part
Between the ages of six and fifteen, I had witnessed two murders, possibly three. I had seen at least ten dead bodies lying in the street, all while living on the streets, and . . .
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November 06, 2007 11:50 AM EST --
The CDs of "AMERICAN ORPHAN" (The best stories of Roger Dean Kiser) just arrived this morning and are now available at: http://www.geocities.com/trampolineone/survive/srv080.htm
The sale of . . .
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December 27, 2007 04:27 PM EST --
ANOTHER ORPHAN'S LETTER
Hi Roger,
I have been crying all afternoon! I just purchased your book today at a book fair here in Los Angeles (near the LAX airport area) while taking my 2 young girls . . .
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June 09, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
As this is the anniversary of my orphan brother Davids death; I thought I would repost this story
"SISSY-BOYS"
As we kids left the dining room at the orphanage, my friend David . . .
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October 12, 2008 04:33 PM EDT --
Those of you who have read my books and stories know of the horrors we children suffered at the hands of the State of Florida. On October the 19th the Miami Herald will release a story in their paper . . .
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January 12, 2008 02:54 PM EST --
"GOD, you are right. He is a freak with that ear all stuck against his head like that," said one of the girls, as I walked past them at Landon Junior-Senior High School in Jacksonville.
Being only my . . .
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May 16, 2008 09:48 PM EDT --
As I write my stories and can sometimes look back into my past, occasionally I get a glimpse of what I felt as a little boy. I can see myself clearly as a little boy and remember almost everything that . . .
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January 22, 2009 02:45 PM EST --
My book "The White House Boys-An American Tragedy" was released to larger book stores today. Having received 6 free books; I will autograph these five copies and give them away to . . .
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September 12, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
"What's wrong with you?" I asked Benjamin as I walked into his bedroom at the orphanage.
He said not a word as he lay across his bed. He was crying as loud as he could. I just stood there . . .
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October 25, 2007 08:11 PM EDT --
I don't remember us orphans being worried about getting in trouble with God. God was someone you had to deal with after you were dead. We had a long, long time before we were gonna be dead.
As . . .
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December 26, 2007 04:25 PM EST --
Television shows have turned into nothing more than a freak show. Tattoos from head to toe, biting the heads off animals to show us how to survive should we ever get stranded. Whatever is disgusting and . . .
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June 26, 2008 09:37 PM EDT --
During the triple points ordeal I ask my gather friends to help me raise enough points to get a Home Depot gift card to help my son build a shed for his lawnmower and tools. I was able to get $125.00 . . .
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October 18, 2009 04:14 PM EDT --
Over the past twenty-five years many have thanked me for the work I have done for abused children, protecting the elderly, teen suicide, legally representing children on welfare, the exposure of the twenty-three . . .
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August 24, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
It had been many a year since I stood in front of Preston's Drug store. It is located where Beach and Atlantic Boulevard come together on the south side of Jacksonville, Florida.
This was the store . . .
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July 03, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
This is a very unusual story. It is one that is very difficult for me to tell. Not only because of the incident itself but trying to tell the story in such a manner that it is not crude or disrespectful. . . .
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September 30, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
Over sixty years I have been an Orphan, "Little Retarded Bastard," Orderly, Medic, Nurse, Painter, Finished Plummer, Ambulance Driver, Emergency Medical Technician, Legal Representative, Counselor, . . .
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January 16, 2008 06:46 PM EST --
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I have always considered myself just a regular old fellow.
I live in a twenty-two year old doublewide mobile home, in Brunswick, Georgia; drive a truck . . .
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December 10, 2007 08:18 PM EST --
I was a bit scared when my grandchildren landed at the Jacksonville International Airport. It had been fifteen years since I had seen my son who was living in a small Eskimo village in Selawik, Alaska. . . .
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January 12, 2008 08:29 PM EST --
Having been raised in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage; I had never known, not one single day of what it was like to have a family. I had never known the gruff voice of a father or the tender touch of . . .
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