TRUE: True Stories from a Small Town #1

By Dell Sweet

These stories look are like snapshots at points in my life. They are part of a much larger work I intend to eventually publish
The Body
The man in the water seemed strange to me, but at four I didn't really understand death, I only understood that there was something wrong with the man, and the group of men gathered around him, including my father, only served to make me wonder what it was...

Last Ride
She was drunk, that much was clear, at least I thought it was. It was a busy Friday night driving Taxi so I took my first assessment of her at face value. Another drunk... And it was early too... But she was not drunk, and I had no more pulled back into traffic when I realized that...

The Dam, The Fair and The Trip are three other included true short stories...

Summers in Upstate New York are beautiful. After the hard winters and sub-zero cold the warm temperatures are like Heaven on Earth. The Black river and the railroad tracks bisected the city and any given day would find myself and my friends somewhere along one or the other.

The Dam in Huntingtonville was not much more than a footpath for us to reach the Island in the middle of the Black river. It was never a problem to cross, you might get wet feet but nothing more. And then one day John stopped in the middle of the dam and refused to move. The water rose quickly...

The Fair was the Summer event in Watertown New York. Every kid would be there. There was nothing else to look forward to except the return to school in a very short time. The County Fair was our last fling with Summer and I went fully expecting to have a great time. The time of my life. Instead I very nearly lost my life...

The Trip: The seventies bought a great explosion of everything forbidden: Drugs, Sex, and many other things. This day my friend and I were wondering about drugs and what they might or might not do...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Writerz
• Release date: Jan 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301398010

Dell Sweet

I was raised in Texas and New York. I write short stories, novels, lyrics, poetry. I also enjoy building 3D models in my down time. I have written several series and collections.

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TRUE: True stories from a small town #1

By Dell Sweet

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FOREWORD

I am writing this revision because a few people asked me to write more true short stories. I have them, dozens of them, but I am not always eager to find them and type them into the word processor. That is not because I begrudge you reading them. I don't. I hope you enjoy them. It is because I read them and I find myself right back in time to that day, place, event I am writing about, and some of it is rough to read. I wrote it out to write it out of me. Try that, it works well. But I don't always want to read them myself.

Sometimes they are an embarrassment to me. They show my ignorance, at least in that place and time. Sometimes they speak to my circumstances of the moment, and leave me open, unprotected. At least that is the way I sometimes feel when I read them. What ever they show they also show my humanity. I am who I am. If you read something I wrote and it stops you from making the same mistake, or helps you to understand yourself or the world better, good.

I suppose I bared my soul in true 2, at least so far: And when I publish A-Minor that will say all of the rest of it. All of the things I have mentioned in my other writings. I will have written out all of the poison for good. I don't write it out for you to absorb it. I write it out to help me, you, someone I have probably never met and never will meet.

So here is the first revision. There is drug use. Sexual promiscuity. Death and more. I don't approve of any of it despite how I may have felt back then. I am living proof that if you live that way you pay for it eventually. And I did. So this is not me approving of my behaviors back then. Not at all. It is me writing