Richard Friedman

Richard Friedman has short stories published recently in two anthologies: “A Modern Cronkite” is in “2047: Short Stories from Our Common Future” and “Wall Street Predators” in “LifePlus2M Vol. 2”. In October of 2017, he attended the Climate Reality Leadership Training Corps in Pittsburgh, PA. Former Vice-President Al Gore is the driving force behind that organization. It was an honor to spend three days with him. Richard is now a certified Climate Reality Leader and plans on teaching others how we can save the world from global warming and climate change.

The Message

Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2025 “Mr. Bookman, time for dinner!” Simon Bookman roused, groggily, and studied the nurse. He didn’t recognize the nurse that took care of him for the last two years. Josephine Lucas rolled Mr. Bookman in his wheelchair to the dining room for today’s feast consisting of a dry piece of turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and a little cup of vanilla flavored ice cream. If Simon Bookman could remember the old days, he’d recall the smell of baked apples wafting up the staircase and hypnotizing his three boys, Winston, seventeen, Sebastian, fourteen, and Wellington, age ten, respectively, dropped in the lap of Simon and his wife Margaret after Simon’s brother and sister-in-law died in 2000, courtesy of a drunk driver. The older boys retreated into the safety net of their deceased father’s transportation company. Wellington chose the sciences and graduated from Stanford, and celebrated his thirty-fifth birthday, a shared celebration with his beloved uncle.

Novel Excerpts / Novella Issue 11

Richard Friedman

Richard Friedman has short stories published recently in two anthologies: “A Modern Cronkite” is in “2047: Short Stories from Our Common Future” and “Wall Street Predators” in “LifePlus2M Vol. 2”. In October of 2017, he attended the Climate Reality Leadership Training Corps in Pittsburgh, PA. Former Vice-President Al Gore is the driving force behind that organization. It was an honor to spend three days with him. Richard is now a certified Climate Reality Leader and plans on teaching others how we can save the world from global warming and climate change.

The Message

Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2025 “Mr. Bookman, time for dinner!” Simon Bookman roused, groggily, and studied the nurse. He didn’t recognize the nurse that took care of him for the last two years. Josephine Lucas rolled Mr. Bookman in his wheelchair to the dining room for today’s feast consisting of a dry piece of turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and a little cup of vanilla flavored ice cream. If Simon Bookman could remember the old days, he’d recall the smell of baked apples wafting up the staircase and hypnotizing his three boys, Winston, seventeen, Sebastian, fourteen, and Wellington, age ten, respectively, dropped in the lap of Simon and his wife Margaret after Simon’s brother and sister-in-law died in 2000, courtesy of a drunk driver. The older boys retreated into the safety net of their deceased father’s transportation company. Wellington chose the sciences and graduated from Stanford, and celebrated his thirty-fifth birthday, a shared celebration with his beloved uncle.

Novel Excerpts / Novella Issue 11

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