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The Children Shall Be Blameless
The Children Shall Be Blameless
The Children Shall Be Blameless
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Some men seem to have all the luck. Others dream of only finding a little.
Richard Smiths world was the orphanage. It was the only one he knew. All of
the other worlds for children, of mothers and fathers and a place called home, he
learned from the tears of those who had lost theirs only to wind up in his. From
the way they grieved, he knew it must have been something pretty great. Once he
had two sisters, they said. One had died and the other went to a place called Iowa
with an uncle. He was left behind. He grew up to put most of it behind him and
in his search for a family of his own, thought that he had. But an electrical shock
opened some door to his early childhood he couldnt seem to get closed again. Each
discovery posed more questions until finally there was only one other person he
needed to see. It would be a three-day road trip, or so he thought
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateMay 15, 2012
ISBN9781477111529
The Children Shall Be Blameless
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W. Jack Savage

W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and artist who now writes and creates his art full time. He is the author of six books: three novels, two short story collections and The High Sky of Winter’s Shadows, an autobiographical account told in essays amassed over fifty years. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Mankato and received his Master’s Degree from California State University, Los Angeles where he taught film studies for six years. Twenty-eight of Jack’s short stories have been published in literary magazines around the world such as the Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Nazar LOOK, The View From Here and Postcards, Poems and Prose. Jack is also a talented artist whose work has appeared in more than twenty periodicals and whose acting credits include over fifty stage productions and two pretty bad films. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.

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