Meet Guest Author, Clifford Browder…

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Authors Are Oddballs

Yes, authors are oddballs, but they’re survivors, too. 

With me, it began in my childhood, when I had to survive my brother, gym, Teddy Roosevelt, and Miss Kiess. 

When my brother, who was three years older than me, came toward me, I didn’t know if he would kiss me or hit me, and he didn’t know either.  He was a creature of impulses.  In a playground once, for no good reason, he hurled a brick at me, probably to scare me and not intending to hit me.  But hit me he did, and I ran home screaming in pain, with a big lump on my forehead that they rushed me to a hospital to have x-rayed.  Fortunately, there was no fracture, just pain and a lump.  What my parents did to my brother, I don’t know, but it was probably severe.

Gym was a horror because I…

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