James Buchanan's Writings
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Short Story
Nov.28.2008
Seeking Publication
The hinges on the old wooden door to the bedroom creak as it shuts. Lilly hears the latch slide securely into its female counter part. She hesitates for a moment still holding the smooth old brass doorknob in her hand. Ear crooked toward the room she doesn't hear a sigh, a moan or even a voice. But what could she expect as it has only been a few moments, she...
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Article
Apr.09.2008
Automobile Quarterly
If Georges Paulin's father had had his way his son would have never become Marcel Pourtout's chief designer. His first love and true genius for design would have been subsumed by his father's desire to see his son become a dentist.
However, Paulin's father did not have his way and the world is the richer for it. In particular, Paulin, through a combination of...
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Short Story
Apr.09.2008
A Man of few Redeeming Qualities Circa 1963
A lone dissonant note creeps out over the small café in this so warm spot on the Mediterranean. I look through the open door into the haze of a Moroccan street and December blue sky to see if I could make out the ethereal form of her, but instead all I see is the commotion of darkened people through a tan haze of...
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Short Story
Apr.09.2008
Selling Their Childhood
The nights are cold on the prairie in America's heartland. Especially if you earn your high hustling in front of the Trailways bus station in Omaha. My bud and I are sitting on cold slate steps that lead up to fingerprint smeared glass doors at the front of the station smoking cheap cigarettes made of dry tobacco that burns your throat...
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About James
James Buchanan is a 47-year-old writer living in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire with his two young children-Quincy and Violet and their leopard gecko Spotty.
Born in 1965 in Philadelphia, James attended Quaker schools throughout the elementary and...
Causes James Buchanan Supports
Expanding health care in the US, ending war as a viable tool of foreign policy, and issues related to social justice in general.
James’s Favorite Books
The Kite Runner, The Orchard, Cider House Rules, Water for Elephants, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, To Kill a Mockingbird, On Chesil Beach, Under the Tuscan...