A Magical Day
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Some days are good, others are great but Magical Days are few. Marie Tennison has one of those Magical ones in a place called Greer. A hamlet in Eastern Arizona, Her article for the editor starts with a sentence...then magically it grew.
Will he publish it?
Can Marie even send it?
Will love change the ending?
Maybe it’s the high altitude or the people without guile.
I'm Marie Tennison, Journalist. Was it magic?
I sent it. To me it's stll Magical!
You’ll find out soon.
James Russell Allen
When I was introduced in a writing workshop and asked what I had been writing I responded; “As a CPA, I have been mostly writing financial reports and statements.” The professor’s response was; “Okay then, you are an experienced fiction writer.” Well, I don’t know about that, but I am satisfied to be writing when, where and what I want now. As a freshman in high school, I was placed into a class teaching speed reading. It was a challenge and results were shown almost daily. The readings, while we learned new techniques, were usually from the Reader’s Digest and we were timed and then tested for comprehension. I remember my speeds got up into the thousands of words per minute on some types of articles with over 90% comprehension. This probably began my love of reading. As an adult there was always a stack of books, usually three or more at hand. One year I decided to discover how many books I actually read for that year and it was seventy-two. When a person reads enough, he begins to make judgements about the authors and their writing approaches. It often instills the desire in many of us to try writing on our own. In 2007 I was waiting in a Doctor’s office, (Isn’t that what you are there for, the wait? Don’t they call it the “waiting room?”) when I noticed an article about the Amazon Kindle in Time magazine. I read it twice before I was invited in. By that evening I had ordered the Kindle for $399! I’ve never looked back. Our family room sported some custom made bookshelves filled with books, most of which I had read. I had read many of the Louis L’Amour books in paperback and collected them but one day my wife decided they were taking up too much space on the shelves so she contributed them to a library. Oh well, they are light reading and always entertaining if you are as familiar with the Southwest as I am. Now I can carry my current library in one or another of my electronic devices. The book world has changed, especially for those who are voracious readers. Many of us think we would like to write a book. When we learned about the difficulty and percentage of actually getting published it was, and still is daunting. Now you can write and publish a book yourself and the book can be done quickly and done to the highest standards if you are willing to pay the price in time and the learning required. You can also have paper copies of your book made for purchase on demand on several ebook sites and Amazon. So, being a retired CPA and seeing all of this develop over the past few years, that was the incentive to go forward with a book. With the cost of any e-reader now very affordable, more and more people have one. By the way, now with your device you have something better to do in the “waiting room.”
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A Magical Day - James Russell Allen
A MAGICAL DAY
A Short Story by:
JAMES RUSSELL ALLEN
A MAGICAL DAY
Published by James Russell Allen at Smashwords
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
One
I SAT IN front of my Dell laptop at the table in the Lazy Trout. The table has four tall chairs around the hand made wooden table just inside the small village market. My one concession to ego, the screen booted up with my greeting, Good Morning Marie Tennison. Have a magical day. I had to get the article done and sent to my editor. This was the place to do that using the store’s WiFi facility. My deadline was three o’clock tomorrow. The Greer sky was coming to life with puffy, happy little clouds floating in the Westerly breeze.
The article had started