Downloads Archive - Dallin Malmgren

19 May
2014
By Nate Malmgren
Is This for A Grade, original cover, 1994

Is This For a Grade? A Survival Guide for Teaching

RE-TAUGHT and RE-TESTED “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” –George Bernard Shaw (coin­ci­den­tal­ly, a high school dropout) “With all do respect for Mr. Shaw and his bril­lance, I have com­plete dis­dain for his atti­tude. No task is more vital to the sur­vival of soci­ety than the edu­ca­tion of its young peo­ple who attempt […]

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01 May
2014
By Nate Malmgren

Out of My Hands: Seth Edward’s Senior Trip

“I guess every­one remem­bers his own senior trip as being the wildest, zani­est, most rip-roar­ing time ever unrecord­ed in his­to­ry. Well, that goes for me too, only I’m going to record it. We set stan­dards for drunk­en­ness, for fool­ish­ness, and for plain old gross behav­ior that future class­es of Hard­esty High could­n’t equal if their […]

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01 May
2014
By Nate Malmgren
Sixties-kid-5x7

The Sixties Kid

He walked back to the door, turned, and fixed his eyes on mine.  When he spoke, it was very soft­ly.  “I don’t know what’s gone wrong, but some­thing has.    I know that before this year I just was­n’t home enough.  I can’t change the past.  But I can see that some­thing has you head­ed in […]

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01 May
2014
By Nate Malmgren

The Bonjour Boys

Dac­ques Smith is a 17 year old social mis­fit, a cute, intel­li­gent kid who can’t find his niche. His moth­er Nina, a French­woman who came to the States with an Amer­i­can sol­dier who aban­doned them after three years of mar­riage, decides that Dac­ques needs a friend, and orders up a French for­eign exchange stu­dent. Through […]

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