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Spit. (Story).(Short Story)
It was cool, with a light spit of rain in the dark touching first his arms and then his face. Robert lifted his face to the blackness above. No stars, no breeze, the clouds heavy-feeling in the air, but unseen.
He was walking away from work. He had a destination, but felt suddenly that he wanted to break out of what was expected of him.
There was a home, with a porch light on: his lodgement for the past five years. He had a wife and children. He had a job--a copy rewriter for a media company.
Tomorrow it would be his anniversary--seven years in the same employment. Personal debts stretched out for seven years more, his mortgage for twenty, but ...
- Young athlete embraces a second chance at life: ROBERT T. SCOTT, PRINCIPAL AND...
- Newspaper article from: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) July 10, 2007 700+ words
...a family and community that rallied against overwhelming odds. "This young man wanted to get better, and there wasn't anything that was going to stop him," said Robert T. Scott, St. Joe's principal and president. "Hard work can do...
- Batavia boy dies from cancer 'Super young man' had profound impact on...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Pierce, Gala M. September 22, 2004 700+ words
...learn how much of an impact Robert had on those around him...of calls from families." Robert's love of life and God touched...compassionate, just a super young man," Rotolo Principal Harold...students at Rotolo who wished Robert good health. "He knew behind...
- Portrait of the young man as an artist
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London TIM HILTON September 29, 1996 700+ words
...exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe has arrived...1992. A body called the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation...large exhibition by a young man who had only a derivative...is the attitude of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation...and dissolution. The young man with the ...
- The Young Man from Atlanta.(Longacre Theater, New York, NY)
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Kanfer, Stefan March 24, 1997 700+ words
...said more in six words than The Young Man From Atlanta does in two hours...C. Woolard's costume designs. Robert Falls' direction is a reflection...more than professional. For in The Young Man from Atlanta, inspiration, like...
- Friends remember kind, polite young man.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Wedge, Dave May 17, 2001 700+ words
...spurned gay suitor was a "polite" and "kind" young man who loved cooking, films and computers...his former high school guidance counselor, Robert Jackson, said. "He was a wonderful young man with a very promising future." At Hofstra...
- Chef Conover is cooking good: At 22, this young man is already a head
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The Solomon E. Jones July 22, 1994 700+ words
...Conover is cooking good: At 22, this young man is already a head. chef By Solomon...Company's bustling kitchen, a young man wearing jeans and Etonic sneakers...from 19th and Norris, he attended Robert Morris elementary school and Vaux...
- The race to the top of the world; A young man's search for himself takes him...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor October 24, 2002 700+ words
...attention focused on a precocious young man and uses history - the race for the...20th century. As a member of Lt. Robert Peary's legendry team, he participated...into a rather contemplative, lonely young man. The novels he reads aloud with...
- Rewriting his future: in a moving novel, Tobias Wolff chronicles a young man's...
- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine Passaro, Vince November 1, 2003 700+ words
...school in the early sixties. The young man hides his less than solid origins...Visiting writers abound: Eminent poet Robert Frost and the sentimental novelist...this genteel world is shaken and one young man, unmoored, avid, insecure, gets...
