Roger Stories
Mark Halpern is a freelance journalist, writer, and commentator. He has been falsely classified as a libertarian, sometimes an anarchist, even an iconoclast, but says he is none of those things, “I’m just a lover of the truth, so obviously, everything I write offends someone because no one really wants the truth.”
Of the Roger stories he says:
“The stories and incidents are fictionalized but the ideas they convey are true. The similarity of some characters to real people is intentional. Nothing has been changed to protect them, because, none of them are innocent.”
“The one character that has not been fictionalized is Roger Conant. He is a real person and everything I’ve written about him is true. But Roger was right when he said, ‘Go ahead and write all you want about me, Mark. No one is going to believe you.’”
Curator’s Note: I can only assume that Mark Halpern is a pen name of Randall.
- Roger at a Party
- Roger and the Queers
- Roger and the Girl
- Roger at the Bookstore
- The Free and the Poor
- Roger—Illegal Alien
- The Fermi Paradox
- Roger's Work
- Roger Answers Some Questions
- Moving
- Dinner Guests At Roger's
- What's Wrong With The World?
- Dinner
- Sally
- Insiders
- Pool Party
- True Gossip
- An Evening at Roger's
- Frank
- The Family d'Anconia
- An Announcement
- Together Again
- Roger's Departure—From Grief to Laughter
- Dempsey Versus the Feds
- New Friends and Religion
- Peter, Jo, and Philosophy
- Two Against the World
- A Literary Convention, Of Sorts
- A Disappearing Act
- Writers
- Exactly Who Are They?
- God
- They've Taken Andrew
- The Nature Of Beauty, the Purpose of Art--A Literary Convention Concluded
- About Plans
- Ruth's Rescue Plan
- The Ruth Scheme
- Ruth's Rescue Adventure
- Things Change
Roger confronts some Libertarian, Objectivist and other 'save the world' movements.
Roger ruffles some gay feathers.
Roger meets a feminist, who isn't.
Roger discusses literature and 'honor.'
Roger explains that only wealth is freedom.
Roger explains why law is unequal.
Roger explains where he is from, sort of.
Roger explains what he is doing here.
Some conclusions about the world.
Mark and Sally take over Roger's estate.
Misfits Roger regards as, "more nearly fully human," because they are exceptional.
Roger identifies the symptoms and hints at the reason for the world's corruption.
Dinner, interactions, and an unexpected event.
What Sally reveals to Mark.
Sally and Mark share what they know about Roger.
Mark and Sally talk to Jo and meet some new friends.
Mark and Sally's talk.
Problems of being an alien and a decision for Sally and Mark.
Dinner with Francesca Danco and her perspective on Mark and Sally's decision.
Frank's impromptu lecture on the history of environmentalism and the d'Anconias.
How everyone learns of Roger's departure.
Real friends enjoying each other, and some hints of dangers to come.
Margo's personal private account of Roger's departure.
Dempsey demonstrates a non-earth human defense and hints of dangers to come.
Frank visits with news and a request.
Peter and Sally discuss philosophy, and Sally discovers another romance.
At least they would be, that is Bill and Sarah Barret would be.
Mark calls a meeting to discuss the objective value of literature.
Thoughts of escape from thugs and the world.
The literary convention continues with a discussion of the works of the writers in the group.
A brief overview of the cast of characters that are the Roger Stories.
Roger talks to an evangelist.
How everything changes.
Perhaps nothing concluded, but the popular views turned upside down.
Reality is what it is, one's plans must conform to that or fail.
The grand rescue plan and the discovery of 'others.'
Planning to rescue Ruth from NatAlSec.
The best plan is to wing it.
And all things come to an end.