JamesSavik Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 I'm delighted to see Dude is posting Courage & Passion! I read it shortly after I discovered Freethinker's Foxwood Chronicles and it is wonderful! Freethinker is a great writer and his stories are some of the best you'll find anywhere. Quote Link to comment
dude Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 C & P won't be the last of the FreeThinker stories you'll be reading here at AwesomeDude. FreeThinker is one of those writers who has captured my loyalty with his innovative plots and incredible characters. We certainly are happy to have him here at AwesomeDude. :D Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 It took me a short while to realize that I had read this story some time ago. Now that it's a Pick from the Past I am hopeful that people who have not experienced it will take time to read it. http://www.awesomedude.com/freethinker/courage_and_passion/index.htm R Quote Link to comment
Nigel Gordon Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 I had read it before, it is a story I keep going back to re-read. Well worth a place in Dude's Pick from the Past. Anybody who has not read it should. Quote Link to comment
Cole Parker Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 Freethinker is an incredible writer. This is just one of many of his stories that have gripped me, moved me, and made me want to be a better writer myself. C Quote Link to comment
dude Posted January 10, 2016 Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 Freethinker is an incredible writer. This is just one of many of his stories that have gripped me, moved me, and made me want to be a better writer myself. C I totally agree with Cole.. with the exception that I was never a writer in the first place! FT.. I hope you'll be submitting a new story soon! Mike Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted January 10, 2016 Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 I was 10 when I started 6th grade (skipped a grade) and that year only, they put all the 6th graders in the brand new junior high school that had just been built. (After that year, the junior high school reverted to the normal 7-8-9 grade levels, so I ended up staying there for four years.). I was mightily grateful to get out of the one-room elementary school format, and to be more of a big kid with changing classes and (gasp) Phys. Ed with changing in the locker room and gang showers. But I was so naive that nothing like what happens in this story ever crossed my mind. There was no internet in 1962 and this was my fourth school in two and a half years so I didn't have a bunch of long-term friends to clue me in. I can certainly relate to the feelings of Zhenya and Robby being newly planted in a foreign environment. The level of maturity and insight displayed by the boys in the story is way beyond anything I experienced. R Quote Link to comment
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