Roscoe
By Mark Cook
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Roscoe is a short story about two men, generations apart, who become unlikely friends.Set in Tulsa, OK in the late 1990s, Roscoe is about a reading tutor who becomes the student when he learns about a terrible event in Oklahoma history.
North Tulsa is not a place where a middle class, white teenager is usually found. Mark goes there to help Roscoe, a 97-year old black man, learn to read. Roscoe teaches him about the Tulsa Race Riot, one of the worst race riots in American history. Mark even faces racism himself when he ventures into a neighborhood he is not welcome in.
Mark Cook
Mark Cook was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma in 1962. He spent his childhood playing and working on his grandparents dairy farm in Eldon, Oklahoma. His short stories Fritter and Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise were set on that farm. "My fondest memories are squirrel hunting in the woods and roaming the pastures and creeks searching for treasures." Mark is a Cherokee Citizen, and lives with his wife and their dogs east of Pryor Creek, Oklahoma. He teaches English at an at-risk high school in Broken Arrow and creative writing to adults at Northeast Tech in Claremore, OK.
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