Award-winning memoirist Donald J. Bingle's tells the humorous and heart-stopping true story about how a simple chore as a teen helping his father led to profound lessons about life, parenthood, and family relationships. Approximately 2,240 words.
When a boy is growing up, there eventually comes a time when he realizes that his father is not infallible, that he needs to make his own decisions in life, that bad stuff can happen to good people, that actions have consequences, and that he has to live with the consequences of his own decisions. Most often, these realizations don’t all occur on the same day, at the same moment. Only rarely do they involve a running chain saw.
About the author: Donald J. Bingle is the author of numerous books and stories, including: the award-winning short memoir, Father's Day; the Dick Thornby Thriller series (Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive), a series of spy thrillers which incorporate real-world conspiracy theories; GREENSWORD, a dark comedy about global warming; Forced Conversion, a military science fiction novel set in the near future; and Frame Shop, a mystery thriller set in a suburban writers' group and filled with violence, humor, and occasional writing advice. He is also the co-author of The Love-Haight Case Files, Books 1 and 2, paranormal legal thrillers about lawyers protecting the rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco, as well as the editor of the ghost anthology, Familiar Spirits. Don has a wide variety of short fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, mystery, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, including stories in the Dragonlance and Transformers universes and in a variety of DAW themed anthologies.
Don was the world's top-ranked player of RPGA Classic roleplaying game tournaments from 1985-2000. Some of his previously published stories have been collected by theme in his Writer on Demand TM series and published on Kindle, including: Tales of Gamers and Gaming;Tales of Humorous Horror;Tales Out of Time;Grim, Fair e-Tales;Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam; Not-So-Heroic Fantasy; and Shadow Realities. His award-winning short memoir, Father's Day, is also available on Kindle, as is Gentlemanly Horrors of Mine Alone, the ninth story in Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project, and other stories and collections.
Don als has a series of humorous critiques (Season's Critiquings; Merry Mark-Up, Holiday Workshopping, and Santa Clauses and Phrases) of Christmas classics which make perfect gifts or Christmas cards for writers, aspiring authors, and NaNoWriMo particpants.
When a boy is growing up, there eventually comes a time when he realizes that his father is not infallible, that he needs to make his own decisions in life, that bad stuff can happen to good people, that actions have consequences, and that he has to live with the consequences of his own decisions. Most often, these realizations don’t all occur on the same day, at the same moment. Only rarely do they involve a running chain saw.
About the author: Donald J. Bingle is the author of numerous books and stories, including: the award-winning short memoir, Father's Day; the Dick Thornby Thriller series (Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive), a series of spy thrillers which incorporate real-world conspiracy theories; GREENSWORD, a dark comedy about global warming; Forced Conversion, a military science fiction novel set in the near future; and Frame Shop, a mystery thriller set in a suburban writers' group and filled with violence, humor, and occasional writing advice. He is also the co-author of The Love-Haight Case Files, Books 1 and 2, paranormal legal thrillers about lawyers protecting the rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco, as well as the editor of the ghost anthology, Familiar Spirits. Don has a wide variety of short fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, mystery, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, including stories in the Dragonlance and Transformers universes and in a variety of DAW themed anthologies.
Don was the world's top-ranked player of RPGA Classic roleplaying game tournaments from 1985-2000. Some of his previously published stories have been collected by theme in his Writer on Demand TM series and published on Kindle, including: Tales of Gamers and Gaming;Tales of Humorous Horror;Tales Out of Time;Grim, Fair e-Tales;Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam; Not-So-Heroic Fantasy; and Shadow Realities. His award-winning short memoir, Father's Day, is also available on Kindle, as is Gentlemanly Horrors of Mine Alone, the ninth story in Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project, and other stories and collections.
Don als has a series of humorous critiques (Season's Critiquings; Merry Mark-Up, Holiday Workshopping, and Santa Clauses and Phrases) of Christmas classics which make perfect gifts or Christmas cards for writers, aspiring authors, and NaNoWriMo particpants.
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