Owen E Richason IV

Short story author, history buff, movie & theme park lover. Blessed dad & husband. www.oer4.com

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The Long and Short of the Short Story

The Long and Short of the Short Story - OER4

What is considered the world’s first short story? Who wrote it and when? What are the origins...

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Feel like composing something? Here's what you should know…

Songwriting Basics - OER4

Songwriting and theory go hand-in-hand. But, there is a distinction as music theory is not the same...

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Nervously counting the few, small bills left in her wallet, she knew it would buy just enough gas to get back and forth from work, but not for the week, when a stranger approached, handed her a $100 bill, and said “Merry Christmas.”

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Expansive bright blue skies extended westward far past the sight of his young eyes, over calm, aquamarine almost emerald-colored water. Curling up his tiny toes, he could feel the white powder sand under his bare feet as he looked in the...

Rays (Slice of Life) - OER4

A slice-of-life short story about a family's spring vacation and a little boy's experience with rays of sunshine, baseball, and stinging fis

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Linnea sat quietly sobbing in her tiny studio apartment as she read over all the details on her baby boy’s birth certificate. It was all she had left to…

Sisters Crossing (Slice of Life) - OER4

A slice-of-life short story about a mother and biological son meeting for the first time as adults after she gave him up for adoption as a b

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Baby Lewis was just five months old when she became ill with diarrhea on August 29th, 1854. The little girl named Frances was barely out of her mother’s womb and less than halfway through infancy when her condition acutely worsened. She died on September 2nd, five days later. Just six days after...

Vindication on Broad Street - OER4

A historical fiction short story about Dr. John Snow, who contends that cholera was being spread by the Broad Street pump in London in 1854.

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Her name was Topsy. Exotic by almost every measure, the unique twenty-eight-year-old circus performer hailed from Asia and mesmerized countless crowds for nearly half a decade. Now, deemed unsavable by her trainer, a mean, drunken individual who routinely beat her, despite her...

The Dark Side of Artificial Light (or 10,000 Failures and the Desperate Invention of Vaporware) - OER4

A historical fiction short story about the rivalry between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, in the War of the Currents in the late 20th centu

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A handsome eighteenth-century sea warfare captain, an argumentative and quick-tempered individual, sails into history by fighting and winning seemingly insurmountable naval battles without a warship…

How to Build a Navy without Warships - OER4

An innovative eighteenth-century naval officer overcomes ostensibly impossible odds, helping to give birth to a new country in its fight for

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“Fish Out of Water” (ad concept)

"Fish Out of Water" (ad concept) - OER4

“FISH OUT OF WATER” – :30 Commercial EXTERIOR: DAY – FRESHWATER LAKE Fisherman on a lake in...

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26 Standard American Drum Rudiments

Percussion/Drum Theory - OER4

In percussion theory, just as in music, scale, or chord theory, there are tones, intonations, and intervals...

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