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The Climbing Boy: 24 by Mark Lichterman
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The Climbing Boy: 25 by Mark Lichterman
Once optioned for a new Christmas classic movie, and still a strong possibility, The Climbing Boy can be purchaced at Amazon for $1.95 or, if a Prime member, can be read free...
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The Climbing Boy: 3 by Mark Lichterman
Once optioned for a new Christmas classic movie, and still a strong possibility, "The Climbing Boy" can be read in paperback, or as a Kindle Ebook @$1.95 or, if a Prime member, can be read for free...
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The Climbing Boy: 4 by Mark Lichterman
Once optioned for a new Christmas movie classic, "The Climbing Boy" can now be purchased as a Kindle eBook @ $1.95. Or if a Prime member The Climbing Boy can be read free.
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The Climbing Boy: 5 by Mark Lichterman
Once optioned for a new Christmas movie classic, "The Climbing Boy" can now be purchased as a Kindle eBook @ $1.95. Or if a Prime member The Climbing Boy can be read free...
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The Climbing Boy: 6 by Mark Lichterman
Once optioned for a new Christmas movie classic, "The Climbing Boy" can now be purchased as a Kindle eBook @ $1.95. Or if a Prime member The Climbing Boy can be read free...
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The Climbing Boy: 8 by Mark Lichterman
Once optioned for a new Christmas classic movie, and still a strong possibility, The Climbing Boy can be purchaced at Amazon for $1.95 or, if a Prime member, can be read free...
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The Climbing Boy10:Mousey by Mark Lichterman
Giving in to an uncontrollable urge, Oh! he thought again as, brushing his hand over the lady’s cheek, leaving a streak of dirt, It’s soft, just like Mama’s. And Zachariah’s eyes became shiny at the thought of never again seeing this beautiful, kind lady. This lady who was so much like his Mama—like..
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The Climbing boy15: Lightening by Mark Lichterman
Moving his fingers a bit lower he felt a slight, dry tickle on the web of flesh between thumb and forefinger.
Stretching… Stretching. Compelled, Lewis moved his arm lower…
“No! Oh, Lord!”
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The Climbing Boy16 by Mark Lichterman
Picking up when we left off.
If you remember, Zachariah was in "Hobbins funeral parlor" going about his task of cleaning the fireplace when...
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The Climbing Boy16: The Stiff by Mark Lichterman
Annoyed, “I’m coming!” Hobbins shouted as, pulling the door open, a gust of wind blew sleet, snow and dirt through the doorway into the foyer. “Yes?” he said in an annoyed,
unpleasant tone.
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The Climbing Boy2:Dawn by Mark Lichterman
A tall, thin man in his mid-thirties, Johnson’s face was
pockmarked with scattering of deep blackheads across his
wide forehead, his cheeks and the bridge of his thick, broken nose—a constant reminder of the years of his own youth spent in the tutelage of “Thornton & Son, Chimney S..
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The Climbing Boy2:Dawn by Mark Lichterman
A product of the times, during his period of apprenticeship he was treated in an extremely harsh manner by old man Thornton, but Johnson was one of three apprentices, so the duties—along with the punishments—were equally divided. The broken nose was not due to Thornton himself, but rather to one of ..
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The Climbing Boy5:Light by Mark Lichterman
Reaching above his head, the brush hit a pocket of soot that had built up over an indentation in the wall, and soot—caustic, powdery soot—cascaded onto his head, over his shoulders, through the weave of the scarf, into his eyes, ears, and throat.
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The Climbing Boy6:Fish Wagon by Mark Lichterman
Looking at the partially swiped area, then skyward,“Christ!” Johnson muttered as he put the toolbox onto a
bloody rope of entrails, two severed tails, a fish head, and countless silver scales. The coil of rope was placed on the toolbox and the brushes and drop clothes on the rope. The poles stoo..
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The Climbing Boy9:Mama's Dead by Mark Lichterman
When she’d engaged Johnson she had been led to believe that Zachariah
was his son and—thoroughly against
the system, at least as practiced
by men like Johnson—not Johnson’s apprentice. If he’d told the truth
she would never have hired him.
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The ClimbingBoy 17: Lewis by Mark Lichterman
“Christmas?” Hobbins looked at his wife. “‘It’s near Christmas!’” he said in a mimicking, whiny voice, then,
pointing to Zachariah, his voice high pitched with rage, “You expect me to pay you because…” in the same mimicking
voice, “‘it’s near Christmas’?”
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The ClimbingBoy 21:Sacrifice by Mark Lichterman
Feeling the sudden chill of outside, unwilling to look upon the emaciated faces of the girl or boy, looking neither to the right or the left, wanting to be past the children...
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The ClimbingBoy 23: Tears, Blood by Mark Lichterman
Cowering on the floor, a large lump forming on the back of his head, blood flowing from his nostrils and mouth,
bringing both hands up, locking his fingers in a futile attempt to protect his face, crying from behind his hands, “Master,” the boy pleaded, “Please stop! Please stop!”
The C..
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The ClimbingBoy 24: Death by Mark Lichterman
In shadow yet, vaguely considering that this, too, might be caused by the copious amount of gin he’d consumed on this day, still, Johnson saw no more than the reflection of firelight in the black hollow of the stranger’s face and now...
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The ClimbingBoy 26: Gold by Mark Lichterman
The fire having dimmed again, his eyes shifted from the somewhat strange-appearing face of Zachariah to the mound of coins that lay on the table before him and, hefting the lady’s coin in his hand, he weighed…
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The ClimbingBoy 8:St. Nicholas by Mark Lichterman
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The ClimbingBoy11: Bit'a'Luck by Mark Lichterman
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The ClimbingBoy11:Bit'a'luck by Mark Lichterman
The carriage door sprung open as a disheveled woman wearing a vividly colored, wide hooped, silken dress and a cockeyed, albeit matching, hat hurdled herself onto the street and barreled towards him, and…
His mouth dropping open, “Lordy!” he said. “What’d I do?”
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The ClimbingBoy12: Magician by Mark Lichterman
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The ClimbingBoy12:Magic by Mark Lichterman
…Till a low murmur came from the audience and, the murmur of the audience being the magician’s cue, removing the hat, bowing with a flourish, “Good afternoon, ladies and
gentlemen!” Garibaldi said in a deeply resonant, but curiously relaxing voice. “What you see here in my hands is a hat!” Pausi..
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The ClimbingBoy13: Undertaker by Mark Lichterman
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The ClimbingBoy14: Drunk by Mark Lichterman
As there were twenty-six days until Christmas and as my Christmas story, “The Climbing Boy”,
has twenty-six chapters, I will submit one chapter a day ending on Christmas day.
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The ClimbingBoy14: Drunk by Mark Lichterman
Bleary eyes flickered open, closed, and opened again.Straightening his body, pushing the small of his back
inward and his shoulders outward, looking about a moment, “Barkeep!” Spotting who he was looking for, “Barkeep!” he called down the length of the bar.
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The ClimbingBoy15: lightning by Mark Lichterman
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The ClimbingBoy17:Lewis by Mark Lichterman
Knowing he’d won, looking contemptuously at Lewis,without another word Hobbins, followed by his wife, turned from the door, went to the basement door and, slamming it
behind them, returned to the work of embalming the body of Garibaldi.
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The ClimbingBoy18: Clean People by Mark Lichterman
Is it possible, do you think, to be so cold that one may no longer feel the cold?
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Zachariah’s teeth had stopped chattering and he no longer felt the damp coldness that had penetrated his
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The ClimbingBoy18:Clean People by Mark Lichterman
Stopping, standing perfectly still and looking skyward, he saw a widening chink in the dark gray clouds where,
rather than this winter night’s black nothingness, there was now a brightly lit moon and thousands upon thousands of brightly shining stars.
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The ClimbingBoy19: Touched by Mark Lichterman
An obvious look of contempt showing on the man’s face, “Don’t you have anywhere else to be?” Shaking the boy,
“Why’s your kind always hanging about?” Bringing his head closer, breathing his fetid breath in Zachariah’s face, “Every place I go it’s you beggars and filth!”
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The ClimbingBoy20:Phantoms by Mark Lichterman
Oblivious of the people in the shop, the three stared at each other: the boy and girl outside, in the cold, and
Zachariah inside, in the warmth, who was suddenly able to see the two children with straightforward, crystal
clear clarity...
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The ClimbingBoy21:Sacrifice by Mark Lichterman
The faces of the boy and girl were sunken and gaunt. Their eyes, set deeply within black hollows, had an intense, hungry look that thrust to Zachariah’s soul.
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The ClimbingBoy22:Hurt by Mark Lichterman
Smelling the foul odor, feeling the heat of Johnson’s breath and the spray of his spittle, “Don’t ‘urt me!” the boy begged. “‘obbins threw me out an’ ‘e slammed the door an’ it weren’t my fault!”
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The ClimbingBoy23:Blood&Tears by Mark Lichterman
Leaving shiny trails as they ran down his soot-darkened cheeks, the little boy’s tears fell with a barely heard “tap” onto the hard crown of the top hat.
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The ClimbingBoy24:Death? by Mark Lichterman
The close proximity of the stranger frightening him,moving even further to the rear, Johnson backed into the
table, jarring it. “Yeah,” swallowing his fear, “I am Johnson!” He squinted, trying to see the stranger’s ace. “An’ who might ya be?”
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The ClimbingBoy25:Flesh&Blood by Mark Lichterman
Thinking about Zachariah there was…? There was an unknown warmth, an obscure reflection, a strange nagging, a pinpoint of thought for the boy—and it was other than that of his apprentice, the one who did the work for him…
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The ClimbingBoy26:Gold by Mark Lichterman
The fire having dimmed again, his eyes shifted from the somewhat strange-appearing face of Zachariah to the mound of coins that lay on the table before him and, hefting the lady’s coin in his hand, he weighed… The boy?
The money?
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The ClimbingBoy27:Halo by Mark Lichterman
A coldness so intense that it seared his flesh. A coldness so extreme that the coin dropped from his hand onto the
stack of coins, knocking them into a jumbled mound. His head spinning, his eyes came out of focus.
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The ClimbingBoy3: Chimney Sweeps by Mark Lichterman
As predicted, “Watch ya’self, ya lout!” As expected, taking his anger at Archibald out on the boy, roughly picking him up by the seat of his coat and pants, Johnson set him on the
next step.
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The ClimbingBoy3:Chimney Sweeps by Mark Lichterman
As the boy and man entered the massive brick and block barn of a factory, sounds assailed their ears: the irritating noise of grinding, the tortured whine of cutting steel, the nerve-jarring din of steel hammering onto steel. Thick, black greasy smoke hung beneath the three-story rafters.
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The ClimbingBoy4: Black by Mark Lichterman
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The ClimbingBoy4:BlackHole by Mark Lichterman
Higher. Higher.
A strong gust of wind…
Never admitting to having a God. Never calling on his God except when His name was used as an expletive, or, most usually, when in terror, “Christ! Oh, Christ!” hanging on tightly, the man screwed his eyes shut as…
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The ClimbingBoy5:Light by Mark Lichterman
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The ClimbingBoy6:Fish Wagon by Mark Lichterman
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The ClimbingBoy7: Lady by Mark Lichterman
My Lord, taken back, literally taking a step back the lady noticed his eyes and the light-blonde stubble on Zachariah’s soot-caked head. My Lord, she thought, this child has the look of Albert! This child could be Albert’s brother, or the son of my sister if I had a sister.
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The ClimbingBoy8:St. Nicholas by Mark Lichterman
Sitting flat on the floor, the lady saw the look on his face and Zachariah’s look of amazement was so complete it was actually a look of stupefaction. Thinking of the situation, My Lord, in her mind picturing how she must look to the boy, giggling, “My, Lord!” she said aloud, then laughed, and as sh..
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