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TITLE (EDIT)
The St Francis Dam Disaster
DESCRIPTION
A story conjured from the greatest American civil engineering failure of the Twentieth Century in which around 500 people were killed.
[1,993 words]
TITLE KEYWORD
History
AUTHOR
Rowan Davies
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I kick arse for the Lord.
[December 2005]
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Bloody Retribution (Short Stories) A man avenges the death of his father. [493 words] [Horror]
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Colin Makes His Hit (Short Stories) Colin takes advantage of the new Peoples' Licence to Kill legislation. [1,165 words] [Horror]
Daddy Ain't No Man No More (Poetry) Figure it out. [99 words] [Comedy]
Death Of A Friend: Chapter 1 (Novels) Really need some technical crit on this! A man discovers the death of a forgotten friend and becomes far more involved than he could have possibly imagined. [1,930 words] [Relationships]
... Die By The Sword (Short Stories) Victor loves TV... His obsession with a certain cop show gets him in more trouble than he could possibly imagine. [2,335 words] [Suspense]
Final Words (Poetry) Hung up? Me? Never. [110 words] [Relationships]
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Jesus Christ Superslacker (Short Stories) The happy work of a contented atheist. [686 words] [Humor]
Man, Ape And The Rather Large Boulder (Short Stories) Longer! Funnier! Un-cut! This is a beautiful story of one man and his monkey friend and some druids who, incidentally are naked and some small, brown furry creatures. Did I say monkey?! I meant Ape! P... [3,037 words] [Comedy]
Moses And The Parting Of The Red Sea (Short Stories) A story adapted from the greatest work of fiction ever written. I would seriously advise against any devout Christians actually reading this. That's not an apology, it's merely a warning. [796 words] [Humor]
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St Valentine's Curse (Poetry) Love is weird. [144 words] [Romance]
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Thoughtless Crime (Poetry) Another Ed Gein (The Plainfield Psycho) related poem. Well, no one reads my stuff unless it's got death in it. Perhaps I'll get a collection going. [155 words] [Horror]
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"i enjoyed reading the history lesson told so well. this is one i wasn't aware of or had forgotten. nice to see even in such a tragedy some people were spared, were willing to help their neighbors. good to see you back rowan, it's been awhile." -- Just A Guy.
"It's so nice to be welcomed back after so long, JAG! This particular story is inspired by Frank Black's song of the same name. And who says rock n' roll never teaches you anything? If any readers want to know more about the disaster then check out: http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/stfrancis.htm this being one of the sites I used in my research. Some of the pictures there are incredible." -- Rowan Davies (Author).

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© 2003 Rowan Davies
STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
December 2003
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