Editors' Preface
Our father, Roger Louis Deen, was many things to us. A technical writer by trade, he longed to be a "real" writer, and sell stories to the New Yorker to finance his carefree life on the Riviera. While he never achieved fame and fortune with his literary exploits, he never let that stop him from filling notebooks and journals with sketches, stories, and pomes (his word for his attempts at poetry).
Near the sunset of his life, and the dawn of the internet, he decided to "inflict (his work) on the entire civilized world by publishing it all on the Web". His original website, The James River Chronicles, still lives on in the digital ghost town that is Tripod. As we have been unable to divine the password he chose for this account, as well as the fact that much of his website is incomplete, we have decided to transfer as much as possible of his work (including stories that had yet to be typed up) to a new website (here). This is a work in progress, and may not ever be complete. We will try to adhere to his guiding principles, no flashy graphics, just text in a readable format. You provide your own pictures. We hope you enjoy what you find here. Non-commercial reproduction is allowed, as long as proper credit (and link to the original source) is given.
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