Tag: orphan
member name: Roger Kiser
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January 05, 2008 10:57 AM EST --
If I may, I would like to make a few points that may be beneficial to a few of you interested in publishing a book.
No matter how good your story (or my story is); if you do not do the hard work your . . .
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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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July 20, 2007 03:48 PM EDT --
Just received my audio short story CDs in the mail this morning. I have to warn you these are stories about my years of abuse in a Florida Orphanage. However, the language is clean and the stories . . .
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July 11, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
My husband told me to tell you, "That you better not use his name in that damn book of yours," she yelled at me over the phone. I just stood there very quiet, not knowing what to say.
The last . . .
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February 13, 2008 04:52 PM EST --
I must have lost head when I agreed to go shopping with my wife this morning. Am I so retarded and is my brain so small that I have forgotten the never-ending circles she always travels, looking at hundreds . . .
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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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August 08, 2007 09:16 AM EDT --
Having been raised most of my young life in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage, I, along with many other kids, was not familiar with the feeling of ‘love.' ‘Love' was just a . . .
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June 05, 2008 10:32 AM EDT --
I realize as responsible adults we must watch what we say, especially when children and grandchildren are in the area.
I am probably one of the most impatient men living on the face of this earth or . . .
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September 04, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
I was thirteen years old when I watched the Donna reed show for the first time. I had been living in the Children's Home Society Orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida for almost seven years.
I had no . . .
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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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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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November 09, 2007 09:34 PM EST --
After I was released from the Florida School for Boys at Marianna (reform school), I was locked up in the juvenile hall for months. I refused to ever return to the Children's Home Society. I was not . . .
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September 15, 2007 03:01 PM EDT --
Sometimes it is very difficult for me to write something that will allow the readers of my stories to comprehend a certain point that I am trying to make. I hope this short story makes a very important . . .
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January 25, 2008 10:12 PM EST --
My wife's "Penny Pooch" children's book arrived today by UPS. I took it down to the restaurant where she works and when she saw it, she broke into tears. She had no idea that I was having . . .
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September 12, 2007 06:06 PM EDT --
On tonight's show we have a return guest. Roger Dean Kiser is the author of
many stories and is a frequent contributor to lots of internet columns. He
has now written a book Called Runaway. He will . . .
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September 13, 2007 01:59 PM EDT --
I was a little disappointed when I saw the old buildings were now gone that I had known as a young boy. Every one of them replaced with a high-rise. It had been a long time since I had been to . . .
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October 17, 2007 08:57 PM EDT --
Needing to get something laminated I headed down to Staples Office Supply. Getting out of my truck I saw a Coca Cola stand set up in front of the store. Written on the side was a hand printed poster which . . .
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