Robert DeLuca

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“ISIAH” by Robert DeLuca

Submitted to Contest #256

ISIAH The two high school chums sat on the steps of a modest home in a blue-collar neighborhood of a big city devouring a huge fully loaded supreme pizza. The gooey feast was disappearing fast when Marshall noticed a young boy standing quietly in the shadows of the doorway. “Hey, Isiah! Get over here quick before this pizza disappears.”, Marshall said. The youngster moved slowly across the porch toward his brother, Andre, and Marshall. He was tall for a ten-year-old but also carried a lot of excess weight. Despite the summer heat, he wore ...

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Robert John DeLuca writes on a variety of fiction and non- fiction topics. He has a YA series of novels on affable high school klutz, Marshall Morris,and a thriller series on a dysfunctional Texas real estate family. A former USMC Captain he writes from Texas with Floyd, his rambunctious Lab.