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Thornton's Apprentice
SHORT STORY 5,000 words "Thornton's Apprentice": Roseburg, Oregon, 1974: adopted parents abandoned Daggett, a young man nearly out of high school, to work on the Alaska pipeline. He watches trains then hops a freight where he meets Jenny, an intellectual beauty who is starving. Sharing his food with her and watching her sleep he becomes entranced; then accepts her invitation to stay with her father in Reno, Thornton Oranbee, a retired English Literature professor there. Together they set up a book store in Thornton's house while Daggett takes writing lessons from the old man. Daggett gains ambition and is smitten by love, but Jenny's past catches up with her.
13 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 9, 2011
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