Randolph Randy Camp

Randolph Randy Camp
SCREENWRITER/ NOVELIST
Showing posts with label noir fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label noir fiction. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Every Town Has A Drunk Named Willy




Excerpt from the Southern noir "LaBrea's Moon"...
Snake-tongue Lenny schools LaBrea in a nasty condescending tone, "Every town gotta drunk named Willy and every town gotta few dreamers too. Some people 'round here like you and ya' lit'l boyfriend Ty always be talkin' about leavin' this place but it's just talk though. Y'all stuck here right along with the rest of us...gonna die here too. Hell, the only thing I ever seen that make it outta this town is that damn water in the Chattahoochee."


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Randolph Randy Camp's fourth novel "29 Dimes" is a love story amid a crazy, explosive summer in Silver Lake, a community of Los Angeles.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Another Excerpt from 'Wet Matches: A Novel'

Another Excerpt from 'Wet Matches: A Novel'

How far would you go for a friend? Fifteen years of separation didn't stop Crystal from being there for Jalan. What Crystal did for Jalan will inspire us all to take a closer look at our own relationships and friendships.

Could you still laugh knowing that death was possibly lurking around the corner? Meet five teens (Shelly, Josie, Robbie, Cole and Micky)  who will make you think twice about your own life and possibly inspire you to live every moment to the fullest. *Note: All five teens in this triumphant-over-tragedy story are HIV positive.
*'WET MATCHES: A NOVEL' takes a contemporary look at America's ever-increasing youth runaway and teen homeless problems. Look for the print or ebook version on Amazon.

Book ISBN: 978-1478273721........Set in rural Virginia, ‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is a contemporary Southern crime fiction novel filled with romance, small town secrets, broken dreams and murder as locals from Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, including a young disabled Iraq war veteran, stop a misguided band of Washington, DC criminals from setting up shop in their quiet town. When Lamar returned home from Iraq they gave him a hero’s welcome but he actually never felt like a true hero until he pulled off his greatest mission ever. A mission that will make this disabled vet a local legend, and a mission that will literally blow you away. Jesse is a rising star but when his mother’s body was found in the murky waters of the Rappahannock, he trades his prized guitar for a shotgun. Ever since Turtle was little, he was always somebody’s errand boy. Now, twenty years later, he decides to break the mold and that is just the beginning of many mistakes Turtle will make. Randolph Randy Camp’s ‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is about the lives and dreams of underdogs. When you’re stuck in a nowhere place, physically or mentally, you dream of leaving. When you’ve been a nobody and strive to become somebody, sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don’t. Once again, this prolific award-winning writer paints a straight forward picture of contemporary Southern life and reminds us that, regardless of your income or race, there’s a touch of Jesse in all of us and there’s a little Turtle in all of us.
‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is available in paperback and eBook (Kindle) on Amazon.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

"The Legend of Three Trees" Excerpt

Three Trees is heavily sedated as a noticeably large team of doctors and surgical staff observe a surgeon carefully extract the bullet from the open wound on Three Trees' lower back.  The surgeon places the bullet in a small tin pan then gestures his colleagues to step closer for a better view into the open wound. Under bright surgical lights, the curious doctors peer at Three Trees' illuminated raw flesh. We notice baffled expressions spreading amongst the prominent professionals...The head surgeon speaks...
                                                                         SURGEON
                                                        This isn't normal human flesh. Hm, kinda
                                                        reminds me of Botany class back in college.
                                                                       (pointing)
                                                        That tissue there looks like phloem and xylem
                                                        fibers found in trees. That's what makes them
                                                        grow. They're sort of like our human muscle
                                                        cells.

US Copyright Reg# PAu002992813


NEW K.A.N.S.A.S. Dissatisfied with the way the adults are running the nation, a well-organized, underground society of intelligent kids demand the right to vote and to be given their own statehood or else. (The kids believe that voting should be based upon a person’s IQ, not their age.
Synopsis: ‘NEW K.A.N.S.A.S.’ (Kids’ Alliance National Society And Sanctuary): Discouraged with his lack of ability to control his own destiny fueled by his parents’ divorce and already fed up with the way the adults are running the country, a twelve year old boy forms a society to give children the Right to Vote and attempts to establish their own State in which to do it. All hell breaks when the U.S. Government starts to hunt down the leader and his underground network. In the meantime, the secretive children’s society is growing to an unbelievable size and there’s no stopping them now! TAGLINE: “Don’t underestimate the power of kids”
Although I’d originally wrote ‘NEW K.A.N.S.A.S.’ as a live action feature, it could also work as an ANIMATED feature-length movie as well. (The ‘Kansas’ in NEW K.A.N.S.A.S. stands for Kids’ Alliance National Society And Sanctuary)
U.S. Copyright: PAu002651984 (Original Screenplay Draft/ Author: Randolph Camp)
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 ‘NEW K.A.N.S.A.S.’ (Kids’ Alliance National Society And Sanctuary)


Book ISBN: 978-1478273721..........Set in rural Virginia, ‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is a contemporary Southern crime fiction novel filled with romance, small town secrets, broken dreams and murder as locals from Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, including a young disabled Iraq war veteran, stop a misguided band of Washington, DC criminals from setting up shop in their quiet town. When Lamar returned home from Iraq they gave him a hero’s welcome but he actually never felt like a true hero until he pulled off his greatest mission ever. A mission that will make this disabled vet a local legend, and a mission that will literally blow you away. Jesse is a rising star but when his mother’s body was found in the murky waters of the Rappahannock, he trades his prized guitar for a shotgun. Ever since Turtle was little, he was always somebody’s errand boy. Now, twenty years later, he decides to break the mold and that is just the beginning of many mistakes Turtle will make. Randolph Randy Camp’s ‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is about the lives and dreams of underdogs. When you’re stuck in a nowhere place, physically or mentally, you dream of leaving. When you’ve been a nobody and strive to become somebody, sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don’t. Once again, this prolific award-winning writer paints a straight forward picture of contemporary Southern life and reminds us that, regardless of your income or race, there’s a touch of Jesse in all of us and there’s a little Turtle in all of us.
‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is available in paperback and eBook (Kindle) on Amazon.
Writers Guild of America, East Reg# R25183, October 2008
US Copyright Office Reg# PAu 3-414-222, October 2008
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