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Economics 101, a Novel (Rough Draft) -- My first sustained attempt at a novel, two-thirds finished in rough draft, and heading a little too far south.
What would you do if you and your study partner, with whom you had been seriously discussing marriage, suddenly found yourselves all alone together on a desert island? Study economics?
Sociology 500, a Romance (Second Draft) -- The first book in the Economics 101 Trilogy.(On hold.)
Karel and Dan, former American football teammates and now graduate students, meet fellow graduate students Kristie and Bobbie, and the four form a steady study group.

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[Baclup] Water and Earth, Prologue, scene 4 -- A Moment in the Meetinghouse Library

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Not by chance, we find ourselves in a local church one afternoon a day or two later. As we pass the meetinghouse library, we glance in and see the young man and the young woman, with the young woman's parents, notebooks out, working together at an internetworked communications terminal.

"Are you coming to church tomorrow?" we hear the young man ask.

"I think we plan on coming in the morning. How about you?"

"I'm in the afternoon group."

"Oh. Guess we won't see you tomorrow."

Glancing back again, we notice the young man's pensive expression, as if he is debating with himself on some great and weighty question. Or maybe he is just deciding whether to ask if they'd mind if he showed up in the morning to introduce them to his friends in the morning group.

The young woman seems focused on the terminal screen and her notebooks.
We continue on our business.



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