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I Was a Third Grade Bully
When I was in grade school, if you were to ask me what a bully looked like I would’ve conjured up an image of a kid from the 1950s with a close shaved head, constant sneer, and dungarees rolled at the ankles. I’d picture him as being the largest kid in the classroom, shoving...
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My Two Days Working at Taco Hell
Retail pay is lousy. Back in 1989 I had worked at Sears for a couple years and decided that it would be nice to be able to afford both my car AND its insurance, so I handed in an application to Taco Bell on Ridge Road. One day later, I had the job. That should’ve raised a red...
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The People You Meet in Retail
The first job I ever had was employment as a clerk at a department store. It seemed like easy money, and I needed no talent other than the ability to put together a cohesive sentence. And even that was negotiable. I soon learned that working with the general public for minimum...
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The Merits and Moroseness of Kickball
Before the days of Wii, Xbox, and Gameboy, there was kickball. At the apartment complex where I grew up, the rules for this game were simple. 1) Kick the ball. 2) Run the bases. 3) If someone tagged you out, you could contest it with threats of violence. We had a small patch of...
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Courage in the Unluckiest of places
Courage can be found in the most unexpected of places. You might find it in the tiny kitten that hisses at the salivating bulldog. Or in the elderly man who jumps in front of a bus to save a child he doesn’t know. Or even in the meek teenager that takes away the car keys from...
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About
K.L. Gore resides in upstate New York with her two children. She is a part-time writing instructor and facilitates a monthly writer’s workshop at her local Barnes and Noble bookstore. Her stage play Something Blue (not to be confused with the novel of the same title) was performed on the theater stage, and she’s written and performed puppet shows for local schools and libraries. She loves to read just about anything. She is now focusing her efforts on YA contemporary novels.
Recent Work
My short story “Hamsters, Vietnam War, and Me” appears in the March/April 2012 issue of Cicada. You can read an excerpt here.
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When I was in grade school, if you were to ask me what a bully looked like I would’ve...
Retail pay is lousy. Back in 1989 I had worked at Sears for a couple years and decided...
The first job I ever had was employment as a clerk at a department store. It seemed like...
Before the days of Wii, Xbox, and Gameboy, there was kickball. At the apartment complex...
