Category: Characters
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Haka!
Book 8 has a haka! Join the apocalypse series and see how it goes from Wilmington, North Carolina, to the Black Hills, South Dakota. Just because our world has crashed doesn’t mean we can’t still have fun.
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Why Mazy didn’t go home to be a cop
Loads of people know about the corruption of New Orleans Police Department. Though efforts are trying to clean it up, Mazy Baptiste, a Marine who takes honor and integrity seriously, could not face the dishonor occurring among some police back home. Though maybe she would have eventually gone home and joined the force there —…
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How To Make Killers—Stanford Prison Experiment, Desensitization, Us-vs-Them, and Killogy
Throughout the ELE Series, psychology and sociology are used. Did you notice how the characters lose a grasp on time? This happens when cut off from our usual world. People who have experienced natural disasters understand how the perception of time changes. They were cut off due to lack of electricity. People who went abroad…
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More Episodes of Real Housewives of South Boston
The scenes with Peter’s maternal family in Book 7, this is how they behaved! And why Peter was so City Point judgy-McJudgy toward them. Do you think these females wouldn’t try to punch him? Or if they had a drug dealing cousin, he wouldn’t inappropriately appropriate Mexican words? These people are wicked retahded!
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South Boston Irish Ghetto
The Southie projects before they were remodeled. These projects are what Peter Sullivan and his siblings knew. They had to visit their maternal side and were subsequently robbed by their cousins. But if you looked at Old Colony (OC) nowadays, you’d not get it. They are quite nice. They didn’t use to be.
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Code-switching, Gullah and NC rednecks
The Gullah, aka Geechee, who come up in Book 3 Going South are real people. I had to limit conversations with them. They are one of the many peoples in America that need subtitles when they speak! (jk) In my life, I have experienced several of the subtitle-needing people. When I first-hand experienced the Gullah,…
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One of Us (South Boston), article by Jennifer J. Roberts
I absolutely love this article and I am so thankful the author of it came forward. It shows that things are not as binary as the press and activists try to make out. Are there humans involved? Yes. Then it will be complicated. Just the way it works. Please, also note what she says about…
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Attacks on Asian Americans over COVID
(Originally posted in 2021) In Book Five, Escape, I wrote the scene of Eric Wong and the Colonel before learning about these attacks. In retrospect, these attacks make the scene even more poignant. Eric would know about these attacks in what would be for his timeline the recent past. On a personal note, all but…
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