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Author: Richard L. Fricks

Richard L. Fricks is a novelist, former attorney and CPA, Fictionary Certified StoryCoach Editor, and creator of The Pencil-Driven Life. He lives in rural North Alabama near Boaz, where much of his fiction and reflection remain rooted. His work explores story, inherited purpose, faith and doubt, family pressure, moral contradiction, consciousness, ordinary life, and the practice of beginning again with a pencil.

What Part of Your Life Did You Inherit?

What part of your life did you inherit — and what part are you ready to examine? Most of Us Do Not Think of Our Lives as Inherited We think of inheritance as money, land, a house, a family Bible, a set of tools, a piece of furniture, a name, or a story passed down… Continue reading What Part of Your Life Did You Inherit?

Published May 29, 2026
Categorized as The Pencil's Edge
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