Roberta M Roy's Writings
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Jun.02.2013
ALVA Press, Inc., 6/2/13 Online Newsletter
On English as a Chosen Language
Roberta M. Roy, Author Publisher CEO ALVA Press, Inc.
I know a perfectionist who is so withholding that you have to trick him into telling the weather by reporting it to him incorrectly. Even the direct question, “Do you know what the weather will be?” brings a no in response when past experience tells you he always knows the...
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Essay
Dec.09.2012
ALVA Press, Inc., Blog by Roberta M. Roy
Milan family oral history relates the story of my maternal grandmother Marie Teresa Scheick Milan, who, following the death of her only son, John, of the Black Measles in 1901, sold their house in Westchester County and with her husband, mother-in-law, and oldest daughter, Marrion, moved from the pestilence...
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Poem
Sep.05.2012
Small Regrets
By Roberta M. Roy
Grass pushes green
among the bones gnawed white by
discord and neglect.
Soft regrets on pale
chalk unprepared to subsume
to forgetfulness . . .
His poetic ways
still missed despite long years . . .
and his irony;
Our artless play in
broken Spanish, English, et francais . . .
withered and lost.
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Short Story
Sep.05.2012
Two
Roberta M. Roy
Adele knew she had to hurry. The internet was gone--taken by the storm--leaving in its stead this swathe of time between now and when next it would call. And when it did, as had been happening so frequently of late, she would no longer be a writer. Instead she would be sucked...
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Sep.04.2012
Jolt: a rural noir Published by alvapressinc.com
Jason carried the terrarium to the edge of the stream. Marty tagged along to watch and to say whatever goodbyes there were to be said as Rocky slithered away. Jason removed the top screen and angled the terrarium to suggest a direction for Rocky to take. The snake raised its head higher, hesitated but a moment, and then sped off across the rocks and down a...
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About Roberta
As a NYS Licensed Speech Language Pathologist, writing became my passion after 9/11 when I felt compelled to research and write Jolt: a rural noir. My intent was to thrill the reader with a love story of survival that would also lead to greater knowledge of...