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Folk
Art Prints
by
Rudy Young
Artist,
Writer, Musician
P.O.
Box 2523, Hawthorne, Fl 32640
WRITING LINK
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I
have written and illustrated an incredible children's book
titled, Billy Boat Learns
To Float.
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Boats
aren't BORN knowing how to float, you know; they have to learn.
Billys father is a tugboat who pushes big ships up and down
the harbor all day; he's too tired to teach Billy how to float. His
mother mends jibs for the sailboats; she's too busy. After almost
drowning when trying by himself, Billy give up and gets a job in town.
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trying several jobs, Billy gets a summer job at the lake, and when
someone is drowning out in the water he is the only one who can save
her. All he has to do is float. |
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Additional pages from
Billy Boat Learns
To Float
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Unpublished writers deal with a prime example of
Catch-22; you can't get published without an agent, and you can't
get an agent unless you've been published. With me it's like what
Lonesome tells his great-grandmother in JOOK
just before he leaves home: "My music is like that poem about
a flower growing somewhere in the middle of a distant desert; the
poem questions whether that flower is any less beautiful simply
because no one will ever see it." So I keep writing, sending
off submissions, and now I'm putting samples of my favorites on
this site.
Here
are three of my novels.
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EVANGELINE & LITTLE MOSES
A movie
waiting to happen
The story of slavery
during the Civil War as seen through the eyes of a slave girl, Evangeline,
and told to a chuch congregation when she is one hundred years old.
Written from the slave's point of view, this novel is filled with
warmth and truth.
If
anyone ever tells you the Civil War was not about slavery,
you tell them theyre wrong. Every White man who died in the
Civil War did so either fighting to preserve slavery or to abolish
it, there was no in-between. Sample
Chapters
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Evangeline is fourteen when the
Civil War begins. Having lived the life of a privileged slave on
the Cruder plantation, she knows how to read, owns her own horse,
writes her own passes, and, as close friend and confidant to Colonel
Cruder's youngest son, Daniel, she gets to go where slaves seldom
go; she will also stand as Daniel's Second at a duel with the husband
who catches him. But these sweet Magnolia days of summer all come
to an end the day the overseer, Shadrack Black, rides into town.
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JOOK - A Comedy
"What are the Blues anyway but dying face down in the
mud after being shot in the back by a jealous woman?"
Lonesome leaves his
home in Louisiana in 1947 with his guitar and bag of Blues harmonicas,
and hitchhikes across Southern Mississippi looking for his elusive
girlfriend, Bursitis, while playing his original songs in the bars
and Jooks along the way.
Sample
Chapters
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The year is 1947;
no Oozies, no hoe's, no drugs, no gangs; just good music and good
friends in this story from the back alleys, pool rooms and chain
gangs of Southern Mississippi, where Jook comes face to face with
his destiny.
In spite of being five foot-five and blind in one eye from a rooster-fight
gone bad, Jook transcends it all with his music and his personality;
his passion for life a sponge
waiting to be filled. I always wanted to read a novel like this,
about the old-time Blues guys, but had to write my own.
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Katani, Queen of the Headhunters
"Fire is fire and hell is hell, and on earth
they shall always meet and prosper. But that they should meet in
the form of this particular young girl, now held tightly in the
cruel, murdering fingers of a slaver, could only be the amused chuckle
of God drinking the blood of Satan at the table of justice."
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(This book took twenty-five
years to complete.)
What began as a comic book in the 70s, became a novel over
the years. It is the story of a baby born of a white captive in
a tribe of headhunters (Shuaras), who is taken away by the old woman,
Zamora, to be raised as her own. It isn't long before Zamora discoveres
the child has inherited her witchdoctor fathers powers of
magic. Every name, custom and ritual in this novel is real.
Sample
Chapters
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Other Good Stuff
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Political
Cartoons & Letters To The Editor |
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LIMITED
TIME ONLY.
My short story, Texas Lawyer,
is now a novelette, and I'm putting it on
a link for you to read for free. Only a tragic comedy such as this
could reflect the madness in which we live today. Dewey Ardonni,
my protagonist, defends a man accused of murder. In spite of the
Prosecution having twenty eye-witnesses, fingerprints, a DNA match,
a signed confession, and the judge and jury against him, Dewey gets
his client off! No gimmics, no tricks; just incredible courtroom
talent. I know you will like it.
Recipe
For Boiled Shrimp
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