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This is based on a true christmas story I heard many years ago. I recreate it as best I can with music, ambient sound and a little humor at the end.
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This is based on a true christmas story I heard many years ago. I recreate it as best I can with music, ambient sound and a little humor at the end.
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from your fan in petersburgthank you, Charles, almost as good as you reading in person. can we talk about ambient and music background? another christmas story this year? |
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An Incident On Grace Street
by Charles G. McGuigan
I heard this story twenty-five years ago from a source neither reliable nor particularly gifted with words, yet I believed it then as I believe it now. At that time I spent many of my free hours in the Dobbs House, located at the corner of Ryland and Grace Streets, in the lower Fan District. I would settle into a booth there, having finished a graveyard shift pushing a hack for Yellow Cab, and nurse cup after cup of coffee, with lots of milk and a little sugar, all the while taking notes in a lined tablet. Classes at VCU didn’t start until eleven, so I always had a few hours in the quiet of the very early morning before I went to my rented room for a couple hours of sound sleep.
I learned to write at the Dobbs House, pen down details, stray thoughts, snippets of conversations overheard, almost anything really. It’s also where I read b...
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Posted on November 15, 2010 at 12:34 AM | Permalink
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I wish you had a picture of the sauer's sign at night