Jim Robison

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2023

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5 Stories

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“The Cherry Street Garage” by Jim Robison

Submitted to Contest #268

Contemporary folklore is filled with stories of international multi-billion-dollar corporations that got their start in a California garage or on a kitchen table, and some of these stories are actually true. But you have probably never heard of the Cherry Street Garage. This is not because you are ill informed or because the story is untrue. It is because nobody has heard of the Cherry Street Garage. Until now. It is April 10th, 1974. Maxwell Porter is working in his garage on Cherry Street in Menlo Park California.&...

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“The Time Train” by Jim Robison

Submitted to Contest #253

The Time TrainBy Jim Robison Kalvin Carlyle “KC” Jones, like all the others in the passenger car, looked out the window of the fast-moving locomotive, but the view didn’t interest him. All he could think about was Julie. He thought about how they had met. He was a junior account executive at an advertising agency working on a proposal for Amtrak. His idea was to promote the vistas available only by rail travel, and Julie was a freelance photographer with an impressive portfolio of landscape art. He would include some of h...

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“The Time Train” by Jim Robison

Submitted to Contest #234

Kalvin Carlyle “KC” Rogers, like all the others in the passenger car, looked out the window of the fast-moving locomotive, but the view didn’t interest him. All he could think about was Julie. He thought about how they first met. He was a junior account executive at an advertising agency working on a proposal for Amtrak. His idea was to promote the vistas available only by rail travel, and Julie was a freelance photographer with an impressive portfolio of landscape art. He would include some of her work in the proposal ...

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“The Patient” by Jim Robison

Submitted to Contest #230

“Thank you for participating in our annual patient review. Doctor Mondavi, please describe the patient to us, as best you can”. “Thank you, Doctor Sebastiani. The patient is a 34-year-old male. He earned a doctorate in clinical psychiatry at Stanford University, where he met and married Pamala Westwood, a fellow psychiatry graduate student. After graduation, the couple opened a psychiatric consulting company in Mountain View. Those were the boom years of Silicon Valley with dozens of startup companies and tho...

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“Rrof and Me” by Jim Robison

Rrof was my best friend; we knew each other all our lives. We might even be related because our moms were sort of related. As I understand it, my mom used to ride on Rrof’s mom. When Rrof’s mom found a nest of leaves under a dead log to give birth to her litter, my mom decided it was time to drop her eggs. And so Rrof was born, and I was hatched, right next to each other. How cool is that! Then when I was old enough for a riding partner, there was Rrof, ready and able. So I got on him and we became best fri...

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Author bio

I’m an old fart with 80 years of baggage. I retired from industry (supply chain management) from the military (Lieutenant Colonel, Field Artillery), and from academia (university lecturer in project management, operations management, information systems, and business statistics. I wrote a top-selling book on project management mathematics. One of my 5-star reviewers said: "One of the best PM books available. This has a TON of great explanations for how to apply various processes that are necessary in project management, as well as activities that help you apply and practice each lesson. It is extremely detailed and includes great visuals and example situations. One of the most useful project management books in my ever growing collection." I am currently working on a statistics textbook that replaces tables (yuk!) with Excel functions and formulas. It will be published November, 2024. I have ideas for two other non-fiction books. I have been a sportscar enthusiast most of my life, and have organized many road rallies and performance (off-road) rallies. My first car was an MG Midget, to be followed by a Glas 1300, a BMW 1600TI, several TR3s and TR4s, a FIAT 124 and a 131, a Volvo 1800, a Volvo 122 rally car, and more recently, a Volvo 142 rally car. I am a member of Triumph Travelers Sports Car Club and the Porsche Club of America. I am writing a 10-part series on "My Sports Car Journey" for their newsletters.