Ryan Umberger
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Apsaalooke: Life of the Crow
The Great Plains of eighteenth century North America were a savagely beautiful place. It swelled with buffalo, teemed with wolves, was prowled by grizzlies, and suffered vast extremes of inhospitable weather. The native peoples who made their homes amidst these dangers nevertheless loved their country and fought viciously to protect it. These were the Crow.
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Summer Vacation
An adventure book series for kids (and adults who aren't boring)
A construction mishap has left the youths of Lodgepole Lane without phone or internet service for the entire summer. How will they survive? Luckily, the kids stumble across a boy named Harry. Not only does he have a knack for making the days entertaining, but of stirring up danger as well.
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The furious scratch of pen to paper. Few sounds are as pleasant to a writer’s ear. The thoughts that compel this action—those ethereal words—ever pool about the mind, whispering, nudging, sometimes even shouting. The urge to write can be restrained for a time. The obligations of life, especially, are a convenient recourse for abeyance. Yet the words keep accumulating, growing, coalescing into paragraph after paragraph of dialogue and prose, straining at the capacities of memory. Finally, they must be released. Thus pours out a deluge of consciousness. Edicts of grammar are obliterated. Penmanship cast aside as flotsam. The once white paper is now stained in scribbles of ink, scribbles that will become tragedies, comedies, badinage, poetic meanderings. New worlds explored, old worlds made new. Thoughts to ponder and thoughts to scoff. But all of it, every single character and setting and conversation is now real, embossed upon the reader’s mind.
Are the resulting stories worthy of an audience? An author rarely knows. Only this is certain. The words are again gathering.