Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Start at the beginning. For Part 1 click HERE Part 5, by Linda Crisalli Ralph Rigatta, Old Time Miner I am no young pup, I teethed on mining in my youth in the Mojave Desert. Went with my pops before I was five. Helped lug out lots of stone. But it’s been gold I’ve wanted. And headlines screaming, “Ralph Rigatta strikes big time!” I did some panning up north. But these dang mountains here kept drawing me back. I can’t stop the campfire stories always running crazy like in my head, stories from t...
Start at the beginning, for Part 1 click HERE Part 4, by Hank Rogers I've always thought that we can only know what we know, and that to believe without knowledge is for fools. Still, there are things – sometimes near unbelievable things, that we may never know. Lylah, the wife, is different than me, particularly now that the kids are grown and on their own over on the coast. She has less to occupy her, and time for dreaming. "Bill, I'm not crazy, I've seen these strange lights on the mountain l...
For Part 1 click HERE Part 3, by G.E. Perlin "Danny!" "DANNY?" "What?" Danny responded, looking mildly annoyed. Danny turned his attention to Wade to submit his inflection of disapproval; Wade did not receive that angry glance, he was looking past Danny toward the entrance. Danny wasn't a clairvoyant, or even mildly intuitive, but without turning to look, he already knew that the Chief was standing at the doorway. "He's behind me, isn't he?" Danny said ironically, smiling at Wade uneasily. "Hi C...
Part 2, by E. M. Young [Picking up the story from the paragraph beginning: “Steve leaves for work at 7 a.m. each morning. His wife, Becky, kisses him goodbye without knowing exactly where he is going or what he is working on. His work is secret ... Where does he go? What secrets does he keep?] The problem is that Steve talks in his sleep. And Becky is a light sleeper. Steve is often restless in his sleep, too. Sometimes what Steve blurts out in the quiet of the night puts an end to Becky’s rest...
[Scroll down for Part 1] In the April 13 edition of The Loop newspaper, we invited readers to use their creativity and join in on adding to our serial story, “Valley of Light.” Part 1 is written to give you a running start. We are hoping for your imaginative ideas, where the story can take unexpected and interesting turns. There is still time. Send us what you have and let us decide! Rules: You must give us your name in your submission and the submission must be no longer than 500 words. It can...
Did you know that Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” started out as a serial in a literary magazine? Published in 1860, from December to August 1861, readers waited anxiously for their next installment until the anticlimactic ending. Undaunted, the readers clamored for more and in the ensuing years, relished the “Pickwick Papers,” “The Three Musketeers,” “The Count of Monte Cristo” and Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” Serials were a way for authors to share their stories to a wider public that did...
