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    Lights at Chickasaw Point & The Two Garcons: American Chapters
    Lights at Chickasaw Point & The Two Garcons: American Chapters
    Lights at Chickasaw Point & The Two Garcons: American Chapters
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    Lights at Chickasaw Point & The Two Garcons: American Chapters

    By Greta Gorsuch

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    The American Chapters series presents short stories in vivid and easy-to-read 500-word chapters, perfect for English language learners internationally, and adult literacy learners in countries where English is commonly used.

    Lights at Chickasaw Point/The Two Garcons
    Even native-born Americans don't know the Deep South well. It's a beautiful, deeply forested region, with diverse people and a long history. These stories set in Mississippi and Louisiana deal with two mysteries. How well do we know a place? And how well do we know our families?

    Lights at Chickasaw Point
    Brian Longfield is a campground host at Trace State Park in Mississippi. The campground is full of elderly Americans. Many of them have no money, and so they live in old trailers that are falling apart. Brian does his best to repair their old, broken homes, but Brian has his own problems. His beautiful wife is in a nursing home in a town nearby, and each day she slips further away. Then some strange things begin to happen. It begins with mysterious lights at Chickasaw Point, a dark and wooded and mysterious place across the lake. What will Brian find when he goes there one night?

    The Two Garcons
    Jeff Garcon's parents have done something really crazy, and Jeff doesn't know what to make of it. Leaving their home in Minnesota, in Jeff's junior year of high school, they move to Jeff's father's hometown of Monroe, Louisiana. For the first time in his life, Jeff, who is white, is in the minority. But things get even more interesting. On the first day of school, Jeff is surprised to find Corey Garcon, who shares his name, and who is African American. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWayzgoose Press
    Release dateJan 28, 2019
    ISBN9781386238904
    Lights at Chickasaw Point & The Two Garcons: American Chapters
    Author

    Greta Gorsuch

    Greta Gorsuch has taught ESL/EFL and applied linguistics for more than 30 years in Japan, Vietnam, and the U.S. She is an experienced materials writer who actively researches foreign language reading and pronunciation. Greta’s work has appeared in journals such as System, Reading in a Foreign Language, Language Teaching, Language Teaching Research, and TESL-EJ. She recently co-authored Second Language Course Evaluation and Second Language Testing for Student Evaluation and Classroom Research (both from Information Age Publishing). She lives in beautiful wide West Texas and goes camping whenever she can.

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      Lights at Chickasaw Point & The Two Garcons - Greta Gorsuch

      Lights at Chickasaw Point & The Two Garcons

      Lights at Chickasaw Point & The Two Garcons

      American Chapters

      Greta Gorsuch

      Wayzgoose Press

      Copyright © 2018 by Wayzgoose Press

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Book design and editing by Maggie Sokolik, Wayzgoose Press

      Cover Design by DJ Rogers, Book Branders

      Contents

      From the Author

      Lights at Chickasaw Point

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      The Two Garcons

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      About the Author

      Books in This Series

      From the Author

      Welcome to American Chapters!

      The American Chapters series presents short stories in vivid and easy-to-read 500-word chapters, perfect for English language learners internationally and adult literacy learners in countries where English is commonly used.

      All American Chapters print stories are also offered as audiobooks for learners who want to hear and read the stories, and hear the sounds of American English.

      American Chapters are lively, relevant, and realistic short stories about living in the United States of America. About Americans, immigrants, sojourners, and the diverse peoples living in this wide landscape, the stories touch on the tough questions and the great things in life—things like work, ethnic differences, our connections to the past, our place in nature, being new, small town life, personal loss, and above all, new beginnings.

      Lights at Chickasaw Point

      Chapter One

      trailer home

      There was a knock on the door. Brian Longfield, the campground host, looked up from his newspaper. It was 7:30 a.m. Brian was drinking his tea, reading the newspaper, and looking out the window, all at the same time. There was another knock. Hello? Helloooo? came a high voice. Is this the campground host? Are you in there?

      Brian got up and opened the trailer door. Outside was an old man, wearing a very old hat. He looked up at Brian in the doorway. His little blue eyes were even smaller behind thick glasses. Yes, said Brian. I’m the campground host. I’m on after eight this morning. Is there something wrong?

      The old man said, Oh. Well, can you come now? I’m in Number 23.

      Brian didn’t say anything. The old man waited.

      Then Brian said, What’s the problem, then? He came out of his trailer and shut the door behind him. He came down the stairs. With the old man following him, he walked to the back of his trailer. He had his tools there.

      The whole time, the old man talked about the problem he was having with his camper van. He took his hat off. Then he put his hat back on. Then he did the same with his thick glasses. There was something wrong with the lights. They wouldn’t turn on. And maybe there was something wrong with the water at Number 23.

      Brian listened. Sometimes he said, Uh-huh, to show he was listening. The two men walked to Number 23. It was a beautiful morning to walk through the park. The park had a lake. There were thirty campsites by the lake. Each campsite had a number. Brian’s trailer was Number 1. This was the campsite for the campground host.

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