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Heart

I placed my ear to my wife’s chest and heard her heart beating, her warm soft skin throbing against my cheek and ear. Her heart beat so regularly and strongly against my ear. And I loved her so.
Sometimes the beating speeded up a bit, marking three beats in the time normally meant for two;

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“The Swamps of New Jersey” Revised, Chapters 6 to 8

Chapter 6

Nagler took a left from the main road, turning into the subdivision where Lauren Fox grew up. The houses were neat ranches, one and two story homes built in a neighborhood started after the war, set on large lawns, fully treed, yards with bikes, boats, a second car, a few camper-trailers, a

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“Swamps of New Jersey” Revised Chapters 4-5

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“Swamps of New Jersey” Revisions. Chapters 1-3

Chapter 1

The old Jews knew what to do with rain like this.
Conjure an honest man with a boat and spin a parable about the wages of sin.
In Ironton, New Jersey people with six feet of water in their cellars wondered why they had not been told about the boat.

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Draft “Swamps of Jersey” Chapters, 8,9

Earlier draft chapters are on this site for those who’d care to see te flow of the book.

Chapter 8

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“Swamps of New Jersey” Chapter 3 draft

Chapter 3

The U.S Attorney was everywhere there was a camera, a microphone, a reporter, or a voter talking about corruption in the State of New Jersey.
It’s never “New Jersey,” Dawson thought. It’s always “The State of New Jersey,” just as in Washington it’s “The American People” who have spoken or not spoken, approved or disapproved,

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Weight (New Life)

Michael Stephen Daigle
http://michaelstephendaigle.com/
MichaelStephenDaigle@hotmail.com

Weight

I awoke

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Draft: Chapter 1, “The Swamps of Jersey”

Michael Stephen Daigle

MichaelStephenDaigle@hotmail.com

http://michaelstephendaigle.com/

908-619-6393

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                     Chapter 1

 

The old Jews knew what to do with rain like this.

Conjure an honest man with a boat and spin a parable about the wages of sin.

In Ironton, New Jersey after five days of rain, people with eight feet of water in their cellars wondered why they  had not been told about

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The Resurrection of Leo

Michael Stephen Daigle

10 Aurora Street

Phillipsburg, NJ 08865

908.619.6393

MichaelStephenDaigle@hotmail.com

 

                                        The Resurrection of Leo

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I am a reasonable man. I do not quickly judge another until I have observed them for a time. I am neither quick to anger or mirth, but proceed through my life at a steady pace.

Some would say of me that I am rigid,

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