Rick’s Substack
Rick SchmidtMy Substack is an introduction to my work in indie feature film production (over 50+ years!), and the books I've written, fiction and those ABOUT "the making of," (FEATURE FILMMAKING AT USED-CAR PRICES, Viking Penguin books).
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Chapter 17, 'wrap-up' of COLD--the end pages of a WW1 novel based on my own father's 2-year walk home from a Siberian prison camp, 1918-19. Thanks for reading.
17.
I awoke, cold, hurting all over. The joints in my legs and arms resisted any movement, but I forced myself to re-light the fire. Supplies were running low, so I knew I’d have to get up and somehow reach a birch tree and shave off ba...
CHAPTER 16--my WW1 Siberian novel COLD continues...
16.
Was it only a month that I’d been away from Nanra? How many days? I had a sudden thirst to know exactly. But since I had dropped the count there was no precise number available. If I had just kept cutting notches in the stick, one p...
CHAPTER 15. My WW1 Siberian novel COLD continues (wolves, tribal threats, war memories...).
15.
Morning again. I was still here. How to get a hold on time? How to understand and digest my journey when I was in the middle of it? Maybe it was time to become less thoughtful. Maybe I was being too hard on myself with so many memo...
CHAPTER 14. (My WW1 Siberian novel COLD continues...).
When I awoke on day eighteen from a cozy sleep indoors, laying before a constant fire, I must admit I felt disoriented. How had I ended up inside? I could hear the frigid wind whistling outside and knew it would have been a very diffic...
CHAPTER 13--My father's WW1 two-year Siberian escape home.
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At first light I carefully checked the surrounding campsite through peepholes, carefully surveying the front and back areas for wolves – other predators waiting to pounce. With the coast clear I emerged and took another survey in a...
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