The final flames of freedom’s fire Flicker in the dark ...

I’d lived down the street from Bill Turner for five years before I knew what he did.

This is an excerpt from the pilot of my comedy-drama teleplay A Confederacy of Rivals. The title refers to the Articles of Confederation, not the slave-defending Confederacy of the American South.

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The cold is a bully.

I walk with thunder folded in my ear,

Though the streets lie still as pilgrims.