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"Lucky Man" and "Searchers" on Valley Writers Read

There are two stories on this edition of Valley Writers Read.

Anselm Engle's "Lucky Man" is about a man named Jonas Brown who must use everything he finds.

Ed Miller's "Searchers" is about a guy who heads up to the lake to go fishing and unexpectedly falls into a snowhole.

Franz Weinschenk, his parents and his older brother Fritz were indeed lucky to get out of Germany just before World War II. For a while they lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Madera, CA. He graduated from Madera High and Fresno State. From 1948 to 1952 he taught at Edison High School in Fresno after which he was drafted and served in the US Army for two years.