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    Stand Alone Die Alone
    Stand Alone Die Alone
    Stand Alone Die Alone
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    Stand Alone Die Alone

    By Richard Nurse

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    Stand Alone, Die Alone is a first-person look into the way jealousy and competition tragically cracked the brotherly bond between three cousins (Aaron, Keith and Corey) that seemed destined for death since from birth.

    Inspired by true events, guaranteed to leave you questioning fact from fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Nurse
    Release dateJul 6, 2012
    ISBN9781476475295
    Stand Alone Die Alone
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    Richard Nurse

    Richard Nurse is an American author best known for using real-life experiences to craft his works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.It was a style he developed and continued to use when college professors took a liking to the way he integrated truth with imagination, often confusing them on which was real or not.Under the guidance of published professors and bestselling Pulitzer Prize winners, like Karen Hunter, Richard went on to earn his Creative Writing degree, from Hunter College, and cultivate his skills in every aspect of writing from fiction, non-fiction and poetry to periodicals, (which he has been published in multiple times).

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      Stand Alone Die Alone - Richard Nurse

      Stand Alone Die Alone: The Brooklyn Way

      By Richard Nurse

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 Richard Nurse

      Adult Reading Material.

      All rights reserved.

      This work is licensed under the Standard Copyright License. To view a copy of this license visit http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Preface

      Chapter 1: Live From The Basement

      -The Elders

      -11:59

      -Preaching To The Choir

      -Frozen Fireworks

      -Aunt Janet’s

      Chapter 2: Motives and Remembrance

      -Foot In The Sand

      -Memory Lane

      -Street Talk

      -The Stroll

      Chapter 3: Secrets

      -Destroy

      -Street Talk 2

      Chapter 4: Rebuild

      -Cold Hearted

      -Devil’s Playground

      Chapter 5: Rude Awakening

      -December 30th 9:45pm

      Chapter 6: Cheese In The Trap

      -December 31st 11:45am

      Chapter 7: Slaughter House

      -New Year’s Heat

      -Nightmares

      -Killer News

      Chapter 8: Closing Time

      -Mourning Morning

      -The Journey

      -The Plunge

      -Stories From The Red Sea

      Chapter 9: Brooklyn Chronicles

      -Can We Make 40?

      Acknowledgements

      About The Author

      Connect With Me Online

      Preface

      An already short 113-page read (in paperback) becomes shorter and more concise in its eBook incarnation.

      Stand Alone Die Alone is a first-person look into the way jealousy and competition tragically cracked the brotherly bond between three cousins (Aaron, Keith and Corey) that seemed destined for death since from birth.

      Inspired by true events, guaranteed to leave you questioning fact from fiction.

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      Chapter 1: Live From The Basement

      The Elders

      TWENTY-four and a quarter day had passed with twenty-four mothers walking the same path of sorrows. That day would be no different. Someone’s tears were bound to build the bridge to another’s happiness. At least that was what the elders would say when they wanted us to migrate to midnight mass. But the allure of revelry was greater than any fear of fire and brimstone. Plus one glimpse at her was well worth a waltz with the devil.

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      11:59

      SHE seduced us.

      She seduced everybody, but with an innocence that made most people ashamed of their intrigue, mainly those distinguished geezers who flocked like homeless men to bread crumbs each time she sashayed pass the mistletoe. Then there were the amorous eyed adolescents who spent half of the morning racing from one end of the courtyard to the other, in order to erect the stamina just to observe the way her hips swiveled. And then there we were, the descendants of men whose meaning of compassion was to spare the mother so that they could count her tears fall at the funeral.

      Their legacy was that irremovable umbilical cord that we secretly cherished. In fact we loved it, but we never lived it.

      The exhilaration of robbing old ladies and poking holes in torsos was lost on us. Instead we chose to enjoy the atmosphere as the wall’s crutches.

      Keith who’s she, I mumbled over my shoulder.

      That’s.

      Shhh. His attempt to reply was clamped between my fingers. Moments like this justified why we named him Dangerfield. Keith was an only child but he got the respect of one sandwiched between two siblings.

      My attention shifted. Core she’s like ya age, I said with an impish glimmer. Bet you still couldn’t pull that.

      To be honest we had a system. The age she looked minus two. But I knew the Irish Cream in his cup would unearth his pride.

      Where you headin’?

      He growled, I got this, as he moved out the huddle.

      The glow flew off my face.

      You better come back before Déjà put a foot in your back.

      Shut it.

      With his eyes eavesdropping on her lips, Corey embarked on his road to acceptance.

      If he could get the new girl the room would adore him, especially if he did it in the house of Ms. Bettie.

      From my vantage point she was fond of him, because with every word mouthed he shot me a familiar smirk. A real cheesy

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