Ben Rose Author
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Author of novels for young adults. There's a fine line betwixt reality and fiction; I use it as a jump rope.
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I write my novels because I find it more effective than rioting in the streets.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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"They want us to believe that if we just let the Republicans run our screwed-up country, everything will be pie in the sky. They don’t understand that those same people are going to charge every one of us fifty bucks a slice!”
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October 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"They want us to believe that if we just let the Republicans run our screwed-up country, everything will be pie in the sky. They don’t understand that those same people are going to charge every one of us fifty bucks a slice!”
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“I don’t mind telling you. Will you tell me your story? We’re all wondering where you get your money and why you took us in the way you did.”
“I believe I asked you first,” he shrugged, and drank some coffee.
“I asked you second.”
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“I believe I asked you first,” he shrugged, and drank some coffee.
“I asked you second.”
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October 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“I don’t mind telling you. Will you tell me your story? We’re all wondering where you get your money and why you took us in the way you did.”
“I believe I asked you first,” he shrugged, and drank some coffee.
“I asked you second.”
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“I believe I asked you first,” he shrugged, and drank some coffee.
“I asked you second.”
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"That was one big problem that led to us moving to the city.”
“That sounds like quite the problem. Too much for a young man to handle. I could not imagine such a life.” He took a sip of his second beer and grabbed a handful of nuts.
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“That sounds like quite the problem. Too much for a young man to handle. I could not imagine such a life.” He took a sip of his second beer and grabbed a handful of nuts.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"That was one big problem that led to us moving to the city.”
“That sounds like quite the problem. Too much for a young man to handle. I could not imagine such a life.” He took a sip of his second beer and grabbed a handful of nuts.
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The fact that someone was born one color or another was only as deep as their skin. Our hearts were all the same. Our blood was all red. Hatred only poisoned me. It didn’t make the world any better.
The second thing that happened is that I ran away.
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The second thing that happened is that I ran away.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The fact that someone was born one color or another was only as deep as their skin. Our hearts were all the same. Our blood was all red. Hatred only poisoned me. It didn’t make the world any better.
The second thing that happened is that I ran away.
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The second thing that happened is that I ran away.
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I know which forums garner extra results. I want to see people succeed.
October 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I know which forums garner extra results. I want to see people succeed.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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When we returned, Mr. Z was standing alone, staring at a tributary to the Delaware River. He turned to notice the RV approaching, and turned back, lost in thought. Penny motioned us to join her and the rest of the family. We sat and spoke in hushed tones.
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October 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
When we returned, Mr. Z was standing alone, staring at a tributary to the Delaware River. He turned to notice the RV approaching, and turned back, lost in thought. Penny motioned us to join her and the rest of the family. We sat and spoke in hushed tones.
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It was likely not the same campsite from my nightmares, but it was within range. I stood by the Delaware River, trying to recall the youth I once was. I could not. The old man was all that I had left.
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October 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It was likely not the same campsite from my nightmares, but it was within range. I stood by the Delaware River, trying to recall the youth I once was. I could not. The old man was all that I had left.
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The summer camp was located, as I mentioned, in a hamlet of Smithfield Township, a place in the mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania. It was within driving distance of the Delaware River and the Delaware Water Gap.
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October 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The summer camp was located, as I mentioned, in a hamlet of Smithfield Township, a place in the mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania. It was within driving distance of the Delaware River and the Delaware Water Gap.
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"Despite what you may think, I do not offer assistance or money to everyone I meet. I have a sense about whom to help and whom I wish to see go take a crap in the East River.”
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October 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"Despite what you may think, I do not offer assistance or money to everyone I meet. I have a sense about whom to help and whom I wish to see go take a crap in the East River.”
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“I caught a freight train through Carrol County, Mississippi, at the beginning of this century, and there I discovered a five-star homeless shelter. They needed a new cook, and I had enough skill to take the job.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“I caught a freight train through Carrol County, Mississippi, at the beginning of this century, and there I discovered a five-star homeless shelter. They needed a new cook, and I had enough skill to take the job.
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The RV-van made its way smoothly along NJ-3 W. Lothario had the wheel and, although he stated his driving skills were rusty, the ride was pleasant. I sat, consuming coffee from a plastic thermos, lost in thought as I watched the landscape out the passenger seat window.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The RV-van made its way smoothly along NJ-3 W. Lothario had the wheel and, although he stated his driving skills were rusty, the ride was pleasant. I sat, consuming coffee from a plastic thermos, lost in thought as I watched the landscape out the passenger seat window.
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September 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
"Hobos have their own courts, but there are obvious times when problems exist that require something more formal."
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September 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"Hobos have their own courts, but there are obvious times when problems exist that require something more formal."
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“Yeah. My parents insisted that they weren’t going to abort. Obviously, since I’m sitting here. My oldest sister said that they called me their "gift from God," and they were going to have me."
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September 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“Yeah. My parents insisted that they weren’t going to abort. Obviously, since I’m sitting here. My oldest sister said that they called me their "gift from God," and they were going to have me."
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When we first moved in, it was marginally better than the squats we had called home. The only difference was that we had working lights, running water, and indoor toilets. Not much else mattered to us at the time, but it matters more as we go along.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
When we first moved in, it was marginally better than the squats we had called home. The only difference was that we had working lights, running water, and indoor toilets. Not much else mattered to us at the time, but it matters more as we go along.
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“That is one very major difference between those feral youth and a hobo. If one tried telling a hobo with whom they must have sex, that would not be termed gremlin rights. I promise, however, that it would be followed by funeral rites.”
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September 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“That is one very major difference between those feral youth and a hobo. If one tried telling a hobo with whom they must have sex, that would not be termed gremlin rights. I promise, however, that it would be followed by funeral rites.”
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"A primary idea is that to be actively disciplined, the child must understand the difference between good and evil. Your task as parents, or leaders, lies in seeing that the child does not confuse good with immobility, and evil with activity."
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September 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"A primary idea is that to be actively disciplined, the child must understand the difference between good and evil. Your task as parents, or leaders, lies in seeing that the child does not confuse good with immobility, and evil with activity."
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September 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I aligned my body with the recoil path to minimize muzzle jump when the round kicked out at 2,700 feet per second. I had some knowledge of guns, although it had been several decades since I had shot one at a practice range in a Nevada desert.
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September 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I aligned my body with the recoil path to minimize muzzle jump when the round kicked out at 2,700 feet per second. I had some knowledge of guns, although it had been several decades since I had shot one at a practice range in a Nevada desert.
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"My back was to the wall so that I could see those who came and went without fear of being approached from behind. Such practice was ingrained over the years of hard traveling."
“For us as well,” Lothario interjected.
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September 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"My back was to the wall so that I could see those who came and went without fear of being approached from behind. Such practice was ingrained over the years of hard traveling."
“For us as well,” Lothario interjected.
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I would soon be informed that laws existed against taking in children off the street. I had studied enough history to know that many laws, while well-meaning, were in practice unjust. And unjust laws deserved to be ignored.
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September 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I would soon be informed that laws existed against taking in children off the street. I had studied enough history to know that many laws, while well-meaning, were in practice unjust. And unjust laws deserved to be ignored.
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