On any given day, two little boys (let’s call them Dan and Mike) can be seen running around my neighborhood. Like most brothers, they like to do the sort of things brothers like to do: ride their bikes, play video games, and go fishing at one of the neighborhood lakes. Dan and Mike also like […]
Category Archives: Character Analysis
Stories and observations of people I meet in every day life that may or may not end up in a novel someday. *Please note all names are fictitious, and some elements of the accounts are fictionalized in order to protect identities.
“You no working today?” “No. I don’t work,” I reply. “Why you no working? You no like it?” “No, I stay home. I care for my children,” I respond, using short sentences and simple vocabulary, as I know from experience that it is so much easier to respond this way than to explain that I […]
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