For just about everybody I know, the intent of the promise is already a part of their operating systems, and I think the majority of us are good people just like them. But we forget now and then, don’t we? Making the promise creates a conscious commitment to live in a certain way, to think about what we do, and how we affect other people. It has helped me remember to be helpful at times when I’m inclined to be the opposite. Making it has made a difference in how I live and relate to others, and it can in yours.
Think of how your day-to-day life could be if most of the people you encountered had made the promise and were living by it. And what could we do if we joined together to work on the kinds of changes we need? The Alliance logo I created is made up of a patchwork of skin colors taken from the photos of 150 people of many races and countries. Chances are you’ll find a color very close to yours there.
Make the promise
I promise to help, the best I can.
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About the author
Ray Rhamey has been a writer all of his professional career, beginning with writing programmed instruction training manuals for an insurance company (mind-numbing). He moved on to advertising and had a terrific career doing that, plus a lot of fun. During those decades of creativity, storytelling crept into the ads he wrote, and he started working on screenplays.
Screenwriting took him out of advertising and to “Hollywood.” Although he acquired the skill of crafting a professional script and had an agent, he didn’t concoct a story that anyone was interested in spending millions of dollars to produce. Ah, well. (Although, on the kid side, he was a story editor/scriptwriter at Filmation, and you can still get his video adaptation of The Little Engine That Could.)
He moved on to concentrate on writing novels, and then started doing freelance editing of fiction, a business that has expanded to include book design at crrreative.com. He writes a blog about crafting compelling fiction, Flogging the Quill, and has written a book on writing craft titled Mastering the Craft of Compelling Storytelling.
Ray grew up in Dallas, Texas, but has since lived, as his grandmother would have said, all over hell and half of Georgia (except he hasn’t lived in Georgia). As of this writing, the places he’s called home are Dallas, Texas; Bloomington and Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; Studio City and Van Nuys, California; Ashland, Oregon; Cincinnati, Ohio; Sandy, Utah; Louisville, Kentucky; and Seattle and Pullman, Washington.
I promise to help, the best I can.
Table of Contents
Mean Street
Patriots Gather
A Shooter Strikes
An Existential Threat to Law and Order
Going Undercover
Run for Your Life
What Are We Coming To?
Old Pain, Still Hurts
Sending a Message
Pistol-Packin’ Mama
Looking into a Gun Barrel
A Safe Haven?
Hank Get Your Gun
Hell Comes to Georgetown
The Protector
Tears, Again
Deeper and Deeper
Time to Beard the Lion
Hello, Hoosegow
Judgment Day
Life on the Line
Running
Captivity
Teach Your Children Well
The Keep
A Most Deadly Woman
A Debt to Pay
Confronting Evil
Into the Belly of the Beast
Fundamentally Rational and Fair
The Beast Is Hungry
A Righteous Plan
Surrendering to Win
Where Is the Justice?
Feel the Pain
Can’t get there from here
Going Under the Knife
Prelude to Fear
What’s the Right of It?
The Storm Hits
The Trigger Is Pulled
Fury
Keeping the Promise
Consequences
Parting Shots
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