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| Writer's profile for 'Reid Laurence' | |
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| Email address | reidgaller@sbcglobal.net |
| State | Missouri |
| Country | US |
| Sex | Male |
| Short bio | I was born in a small house in Evanston, Illinois. I met my wife, Mary Ryan, in a painting class while I attended architectural engineering school at the University of Illinois in Chicago. |
| Big Business Is Killing Me (standard:poetry, 99 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jun 25 2010 | Views/Reads: 66/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| How many of us are CEO's? How many are busy on their yachts right now, too busy to talk... too busy to solve problems we're left to contend with? | |||
| Tough Teacher (standard:Satire, 818 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Aug 02 2006 | Views/Reads: 1246/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| If you've ever had to suffer through the type of hard-driving, relentless, classroom monster of a teacher I've described in this story, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about! | |||
| Investiture (standard:poetry, 65 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jun 25 2010 | Views/Reads: 62/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| A poem about the lack of control some of us may feel when we watch crude oil spew from the bottom of the ocean... | |||
| My Typical Interview (standard:humor, 878 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jan 29 2007 | Views/Reads: 666/347 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Frustration and antipathy for what many of us have been through just to find a job are the subjects of this brief, but enlightening piece of fiction. | |||
| Intro to my new book (standard:humor, 473 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jul 27 2006 | Views/Reads: 609/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| The introduction to my new book; Ticket To Happiness or the Self-Indulgent Truth, gives the reader a hint or feeling for where the story is headed. America is a nation based on a system of reward for hard work, but just where it all leads to is difficult | |||
| What The Government Won't Tell You (standard:Fan Fiction, 1456 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Feb 08 2006 | Views/Reads: 808/396 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| This story is about something you would never guess, and I don't want to give it away! Just give it five minutes of your time. | |||
| Just A Lot Of Words (standard:poetry, 150 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jun 16 2010 | Views/Reads: 73/34 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| A lot of words around to define what we'd like to express, but do some do more harm then good? | |||
| Cleaning Up (standard:poetry, 94 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jun 16 2010 | Views/Reads: 50/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Tragic cycles of time seem to be an imprint of humanity... | |||
| This Game Of Chance (standard:humor, 1061 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Apr 19 2006 | Views/Reads: 692/331 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Is global warming fact or fiction? An important consideration, or a minor problem that will heal itself and go away? | |||
| Breaking News! (standard:Flash, 768 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Apr 13 2006 | Views/Reads: 757/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| How does a guy make a name for himself anyways? Read about this dilemma in Reid Laurence's story; Breaking News! | |||
| I'm Just The Bell Ringer Here (standard:humor, 1620 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Oct 05 2006 | Views/Reads: 647/319 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| The story of a man and his father who go out for breakfast one day and experience what we might call, an insightful view into their relationship - especially after many years of not knowing each other. | |||
| Righteous Restitution? (standard:humor, 795 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Sep 25 2006 | Views/Reads: 581/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Can a man's patriotic virtues run too deep for his own good? How self-sacrificing can one be without upsetting the world around him? | |||
| Jailbird (standard:Fan Fiction, 3357 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Nov 29 2005 | Views/Reads: 834/405 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Jailbird is the story of two hopeless prisoners who endure the punishment of incarceration and as the story unfolds, the reader slowly learns what these inmates have gone through, and what they've become! Read on, and find out... | |||
| A Killing Rain (standard:horror, 36181 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Dec 07 2005 | Views/Reads: 826/415 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Raymond Mort is a killer — make no mistake — but the lives he takes don’t fulfill a murderers bloodlust quite as much as they work to keep him happy and occupied in the strange, make-believe world he’s self-manufactured out of sheer madness. In doing so, | |||
| Jack's Mess (Prt1-Thirty Days To Kill) (standard:action, 31026 words) [1/2] show all parts | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Dec 10 2005 | Views/Reads: 841/449 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| A psychotic murderer, Jack Carter earns his place among serial killers of his day amidst an era of machine-gun-wielding gangsters, crooked cops and beautiful women. He learns to kill indiscriminately, leaving behind a trail of blood and a stack of bodie | |||
| Carl (standard:Fan Fiction, 11295 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Dec 19 2005 | Views/Reads: 730/367 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| The story Carl centers around a case of mistaken identity and asks the question...Are we really who we think we are, or could there exist some other force, much greater then we, compelling us to do the things we do? Read on and find out. | |||
| A New Post (standard:Flash, 977 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jan 10 2006 | Views/Reads: 749/368 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| This is the story of an internet author who tries hard to cope with the hardship of realizing his creations by first having his wife and friends either approve or disapprove of them. Read on and learn their inner most thoughts... | |||
| Who Am I This Time? (standard:Fan Fiction, 13390 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jan 23 2006 | Views/Reads: 918/411 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Who Am I This Time is the story of a man who is reincarnated many times, but in doing so, he finds that the best way he can help himself is to not focus on himself at all! | |||
| A Day In The Life (standard:Fan Fiction, 1196 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Feb 12 2006 | Views/Reads: 734/379 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| A typical hum drum day around the house turns into something peculiar! Read on and find out... | |||
| The Visionary (standard:Flash, 1792 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Feb 22 2006 | Views/Reads: 824/365 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Has the great Nostradamus come back to us in the guise of a twenty-first century janitor? Read on and find out... | |||
| Solomon (standard:Flash, 935 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Mar 03 2006 | Views/Reads: 719/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| An informative e-mail becomes much more than just the run-of-the-mill greeting! | |||
| They're Here! (standard:Fan Fiction, 560 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Apr 01 2006 | Views/Reads: 742/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Don't listen if you don't want to, but don't say I didn't try to warn you! Read this story and get ready, for the inevitable is about to happen! | |||
| Prodigy (standard:Flash, 1216 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: May 19 2006 | Views/Reads: 740/354 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| A child prodigy creates the surprise of a lifetime! | |||
| Getting Along (standard:Flash, 590 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jun 29 2006 | Views/Reads: 726/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Why can't everybody just get along? I never could quite answer that question, but in my own strange way, I've finally begun to try. | |||
| The Fast Track (standard:humor, 1175 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: May 27 2007 | Views/Reads: 546/286 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Ever wonder what happens at those schools of medicine in far off lands? How would you like one of those new grads performing liposuction on you or your wife?... Think about it! Get the inside dope right here... | |||
| Truth Or Consequences? (standard:humor, 474 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Sep 08 2006 | Views/Reads: 719/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| There's a lot of truth to this story, but what of the consequences to one ticked off writer's actions? A nickel in the slammer? Who knows? | |||
| My First Interview (standard:humor, 870 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Oct 19 2006 | Views/Reads: 657/344 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Ever get the feeling you might put that pen down and never write another word as long as you live? I know I have, but then, what do you do to fill in the gap? Find another hobby I suppose... but what? | |||
| Politics, I Hate The Word As I Hate All Politicians And These... (standard:Satire, 1207 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Nov 02 2006 | Views/Reads: 820/408 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| This story, which is really a humorous remark on a recent senate debate in Missouri brings with it an actual, tragic point. A point which is difficult to ignore... that being, that there are so few politicians we can trust, just what difference does it ma | |||
| Writer's Block (standard:humor, 634 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Dec 07 2006 | Views/Reads: 687/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| How best do I describe a story that reveals the truth on a subject that no one wants to think about for fear it might happen to them? It's like trying to describe a bad cold to a person who wants no part of it, but it happens sometimes and who knows, you | |||
| Sisohpromatem (standard:other, 2095 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jan 09 2007 | Views/Reads: 542/299 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Suddenly, a frightening future becomes all too clear as a man who expects another drab working day gets the surprise of his life. | |||
| Itsalotta Chicken (standard:humor, 3779 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Mar 02 2007 | Views/Reads: 527/267 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| What about the food we eat? Is it safe? What's all that processed stuff doing to our bodies anyway? Read on and find out... | |||
| Don’t Really Own No Elves (standard:humor, 1991 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Mar 28 2007 | Views/Reads: 517/268 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Just what kind of government research goes on while we're busy doing that 9 to 5? Is it a good thing, or bad? A help, or a hindrance? Read on and find out... | |||
| Apple Pie and Coffee (standard:humor, 1629 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Apr 11 2007 | Views/Reads: 606/299 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| How about all those people with them fancy college degrees? Are they really necessary in a world so riddled with chaos and disorder? Read on, and find out... | |||
| Why Wal-Mart Will Destroy You (standard:humor, 1224 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Aug 28 2007 | Views/Reads: 528/288 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| How do millions of people fall prey to huge chain stores? Why do we let ourselves be treated like shopping zombies who make the same mistakes over and over again? To tell you the truth, I still can't put my finger on it, but I sure know what happens... | |||
| Purple Heart Fatigue (standard:Psychological fiction, 934 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Aug 31 2007 | Views/Reads: 627/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| I don't want to be the one who can't see the forest for the trees. I want to see things as they really are, and all you need to do is to take a trip to your neighborhood grocery store. That in itself is clue enough... | |||
| You And I (standard:poetry, 86 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jun 12 2010 | Views/Reads: 88/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| A measure of trust in every relationship... but what of that trust when it is broken? | |||
| Changes (standard:humor, 1312 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jan 06 2008 | Views/Reads: 500/280 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| "What we have here, is a failure to communicate!" Will America finally pull itself together and get pulling together? Can Barack Obama really do what he says he can? We may not have long to find out... | |||
| We Need Dollars... Not Change (standard:humor, 449 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Feb 23 2008 | Views/Reads: 489/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Left wing, right wing, who cares? This plane is never gonna get off the ground anyway. Can't we work out a deal and let Bush do another term? | |||
| Till Death Do Us Part (standard:poetry, 103 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jun 10 2010 | Views/Reads: 62/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| When do we give up on each other? In our relationship with the ecosystem, we haven't much time left to consider... | |||
| Ten Thousand Graves (standard:poetry, 74 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jun 08 2010 | Views/Reads: 66/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| The buried dead from past wars lie in enormous numbers all over the world, but how else could we have maintained not just our freedom, but our very identity as Americans? | |||
| Vote For Who? (standard:humor, 882 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Mar 19 2008 | Views/Reads: 444/236 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Given the candidates we have to choose from in America, who would you vote for? To me, the decision is clean and simple... | |||
| Good Friends and Family (standard:humor, 980 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Mar 23 2008 | Views/Reads: 551/265 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| We need to be grateful for what we have, don't we? I mean, the fact in itself that we don't have to go through life alone is something right there, isn't it?.. | |||
| My Funny Valentine (standard:poetry, 106 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jun 02 2010 | Views/Reads: 63/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Just a brief poem about the earth and ecology. | |||
| Ticket To Happiness or the Self-Indulgent Truth? (standard:humor, 56223 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jun 10 2008 | Views/Reads: 491/227 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Wouldn't it be great if life always turned out the way we'd like it to - or thought it should? The one good thing about writing fiction is - yep, you guessed it - the story always turns out exactly as it should... or the way you'd like it to, anyway. | |||
| Talking Heads (standard:horror, 20284 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Aug 03 2008 | Views/Reads: 458/217 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Too strange to be true... or is it? Shockingly enough, it's difficult sometimes to tell the difference, but you be the judge... | |||
| A Sign Of The Times (standard:drama, 18277 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Dec 16 2008 | Views/Reads: 356/173 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| A psychological drama, A Sign Of The Times is a story about a man who sees his life not so much through the eyes of a hero, but as one who must keep pace in a world he could never, and will never connect with. In the end, he seems to lose out and win all | |||
| Just Being Frank (standard:humor, 1091 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jan 19 2009 | Views/Reads: 337/133 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| The temptation to undermine the American work force which I myself have been so long a part of... is this betrayal, treason, or just a bite of forbidden fruit? Who can say? | |||
| Artery Severed (standard:poetry, 85 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: May 19 2010 | Views/Reads: 53/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Some shocking events are difficult to describe in mere words... | |||
| My Jesus, Mercy (standard:poetry, 93 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jan 14 2010 | Views/Reads: 106/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| How do we celebrate the holidays and ignore the terrible effects of war and catastrophic global events at the same time? | |||
| Sight Unseen (standard:poetry, 187 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: May 15 2010 | Views/Reads: 69/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| A world economy in crisis; the stock market a roller coaster. What can be done? What will the future bring?... | |||
| Holidays To Remember (standard:horror, 25120 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jan 19 2010 | Views/Reads: 156/52 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Why is it we can't all lean back and enjoy ourselves over the holidays? Sometimes, tension and bad memories just tend to overwhelm... | |||
| Happy New Year (standard:poetry, 118 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jan 20 2010 | Views/Reads: 115/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Guessing what the future will bring and how well I can adapt to changes... what if I can't multi-task? | |||
| Abduction (standard:poetry, 83 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: May 03 2010 | Views/Reads: 74/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Some crimes cannot be healed over or made better. Some leave wounds and hollows in our lives. | |||
| Wintertime Blues (standard:poetry, 111 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Mar 01 2010 | Views/Reads: 95/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| A poem about an artist who paints to try to remain happy but can't quite make it happen. | |||
| Friends Again (standard:poetry, 76 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Apr 12 2010 | Views/Reads: 106/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Friends we used to have still linger on in memory - so much so, that you think you know what they might say if they were actually there... | |||
| The Pen, The Sword (standard:poetry, 67 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Apr 27 2010 | Views/Reads: 89/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Ever wonder about the strength of the pen versus the sword? I have many times... | |||
| Fussing And Fighting (standard:poetry, 93 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jul 05 2010 | Views/Reads: 58/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Arguing takes up so much of our time, it's a wonder we get anything done. | |||
| Molded Clay (standard:poetry, 49 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Jul 23 2010 | Views/Reads: 48/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Creationism or evolution... who's to say? | |||
| Glass Houses (standard:poetry, 120 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Aug 08 2010 | Views/Reads: 54/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| What happens when people who live in glass houses throw stones? | |||
| Progress In Reverse (standard:poetry, 198 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Aug 11 2010 | Views/Reads: 49/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Time moves on and we would naturally assume that we are making progress, but are we? | |||
| Daytime (standard:poetry, 85 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Aug 20 2010 | Views/Reads: 44/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Old habits are hard to quit. | |||
| When Time Runs Out Of Time (standard:poetry, 158 words) | |||
| Author: Reid Laurence | Added: Aug 23 2010 | Views/Reads: 37/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Ever wonder about what the inevitable must bring? | |||