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mountain musing

"All about literature, Where it it, When it is, Who it's by, and Why there's no such thing"

That's the subtitle for my 4,000-word essay, "Cowboy Lit," available FREE Tue & Wed, Dec. 11 & 12 on Amazon Kindle's Roland Cheek page:

 

This provocative essay was actually created while riding horseback in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, using my saddlehorn as a writing desk and a broken No. 3 pencil stub as my keyboard. "Cowboy Lit"offers solid evidence that a thinking mind never stops, and is, in fact, sometimes uncontrollable. Here's an excerpt from the essay to demonstrate:

A few months earlier I'd been strolling through the aisles of a major chain bookstore in what passes for one of Montana's cities, I was amused to note that several rows of their books were marked: "Fiction & Literature". "Excuse me, ma'am," I said to a passing storecleerk, "which of these books are fiction?"

"They're all fiction," she replied, waving a sheaf of papers at the rows of shelves. The lady seemed in a hurry and I felt badly for what I was about to do.

"All right, then, which are literature?" Her eyes narrowed. "Look, ma'am, I continued, "your sign says fiction and literature, right?"

"Ye-e-e-s." "Then kindly show me one that is 'literature' so I won't have to sort through a bunch that is merely 'fiction' in order to find the good stuff."

 

 

ROLAND CHEEK

Roland Cheek is a gifted writer with a knack for clarifying reality

- Carl Hanner e-mail

Roland's craft is on display on his website where you can read the first chapter of each of his books:
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His titles can also be found wherever books are sold. Much of the guy's works are also available as e-books at Amazon's Kindle store:
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Audience & Storytellers

 

December 3, 2012

Creating By Committee

 

November 29, 2012

"Whelmed"

 

November 26, 2012

Music From Stars

 

November 22, 2012

Manicurist's Hangnails

 

November 19, 2012

Separation of Church and State

 

November 15, 2012

Tiny Kernels of Truth