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About me - Roger Haller

I am a software quality engineer manager with a passion for fiction of all kinds.

I currently teach and mentor new writers at my site, www.cowboylogic.net and run a monthly contest to help hone my group's skills.

I am happy to join this community, because I

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Love: 151 of 718

love comes and goes at will but with each visit I am rewarded with new knowledge of who I am... with each exit a new wound with each new love a faster heal... some are damaged beyond repair with the first love the strong who dare Cupid's arrow are the only lovers who find the truth... the rest are left with visions of pain t...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Slavery: 3 of 14

JR grinned wide to himself as he watched the boys bent to the task of inventing games of adventure and brave exploration on, in and around the rusting machinery tucked into the edge of the saw grass that bordered the tidal backwater. The Mid Summer Savanna heat soothed his bones and this porch chair was perhaps his favorite ...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Dark stories: 145 of 613

"It's 1933 and you are complaining because we don't have enough to feed the children? Look at the hen house. Last count I did we had 33 chickens with 7 hens nesting. We have 3 pigs, all different ages, a good plow horse and a milk cow. We have potatoes in the root cellar and all the clear, clean drinking water we can use, ri...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: I live . . .: 7 of 28

Who am I? What's funny, is I have thought long and hard how I would describe myself to anyone so they would get a good view of just who I am and I came to the conclusion I cannot paint a picture for anyone without using their labels and images I think of just what pictures others hold I worry that they don't see me I smile a...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Science fiction: 71 of 270

AI357M "Boss, lookit that!" "What have you got Yard Dog?" "Dunno fer sure but ah think it's an Aye Eye 357 Em." "Let me have your seat Yard, go get me an espresso beer. I want to study this thing some before we get out and collect it." "Comin' right up boss, wanna toke to go wit it?" "No, save that for desert tonight. We're ...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Life lessons: 96 of 334

Communication is the key. My abilities are far out shadowed by my disabilities, yet I would be classed as genius by academia. With much study, I have found the secret to intelligence is communication. I did not come by this conclusion slowly and with gathered knowledge, but rather years of skimming that suddenly flowed over ...
Autos > Mechanics & Repair Shops Secrets to finding the right mechanic: 4 of 11

Feel free to print this out and submit to your perspective new auto repair shop. Having been a "good mechanic" for more than twenty five years, and having run my own repair shop for several of them, I find myself uniquely qualified to show you how and where to find the best mechanic for your needs. like anything else, you ne...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Life's journey: 107 of 290

Age of Man Near start of the time of man Village became two They had food to eat and give The people see each other From hill to settled hill Each a home to feed and live Each soul could look at the peace in their life Each man had fam'ly and friend They called over woods. To their brothers greetings sent Each woman had fond...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Couples: 9 of 20

The loss of a Soul Mate From this cavernous tomb, I look up. The stars smirk back in Uniform glee. How could this fate fall, on one so true. I have always folded with my mate. I fit with no other. The half that makes me complete, has gone on. How can evolution survive such blunder? How can we be of use? One has moved far abo...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Rules: 11 of 22

Breaking the rules of Nature It has always been my habit to gravitate to nature. I was raised to be a hunter and fisherman and I prided myself with the idea I was a part of the overall plan. There are hunters and prey all over nature and one life taken enables another to live. I was born a predator. The habit consisted livin...