Tag: random
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October 24, 2007 10:37 AM EDT --
The Space Between
He shuts the door with a thud.
His sixteen-year girth and power precede him.
He does few things lightly.
We have chewed the morning’s fat ever so briefly,
Over muffins . . . more
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November 14, 2007 01:51 PM EST --
I was listening to On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony, a book-on-tape (only it's a book-on-iPod, now.) The book is about a guy who becomes the Incarnation of Death, one of the Five Incarnations, . . . more
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March 02, 2008 12:03 PM EST --
This flash fiction story won first prize in the Write Around the Block Valentine Flash Fiction Contest. The first line was provided and had to be used to begin the story.
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May 05, 2008 02:23 AM EDT --
Lisa See's rich storytelling is steeped in tradition and ritual, exploring the many manifestations of love and sorrow, the bonds of friendship, and the power of words and the desire of women to be . . . more
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May 03, 2008 01:31 PM EDT --
I will be selecting rich and beautifully crafted works that will take us on an adventure with every turn of each page. There will be a new adventure every other month, giving members . . . more
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May 05, 2008 12:46 AM EDT --
EXCERPT
Riding the Wind
Two days before my sixteenth birthday, i woke up so early that my maid was still asleep on the floor at the foot of my bed. I should have scolded Willow, but I didn't . . . more
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January 27, 2008 09:23 PM EST --
I've noticed that (my) published writing sometimes shows up with words strung together in an odd fashion. I know they were separated by spaces when I wrote them. (My fourth graders would be horrified . . . more
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December 02, 2007 01:39 PM EST --
George Corneliussen
Imagine running into someone you used to know fairly well, but haven't seen for decades. Then imagine what it would be like if that person began reminding you of all . . . more
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March 02, 2008 12:10 PM EST --
This poem was featured in the December issue of the Shine Journal, along with my story "Mullet." The poem also won first place in the January, 2008 Write Around the Block poetry contest.
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March 04, 2008 07:40 AM EST --
A review of "Breaking News "
Author : Martin Fletcher
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Press
Before I even cracked the cover of " Breaking News", I Googled . . . more
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June 17, 2008 03:48 AM EDT --
all his life,
he wanted to burn
but now he fades away,
slowly, like an echo.
the pain brings me to my knees.
i cry for him.
more
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June 17, 2008 03:45 AM EDT --
i waited with outstretched
arms from accross the street,
payiently counting the last
seconds before you'd fall
into the arms that had
waited all these years for you.
i closed my . . . more
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October 28, 2007 05:41 PM EDT --
When the recent film version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" came out, our entire family enjoyed it. But we were left wondering, what's with the towel? Why do . . . more
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June 16, 2008 01:50 AM EDT --
i keep wishing
i could write words
made of feathers.
i'd make those feathers
into wings for you
and you'd fly to
the city of shadows
where you always wanted
to go.
i wish i . . . more
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August 19, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
Today I bought my Aussie,
Black leather bad guy hat.
Black is for bad guys,
because that's who I am
Deep within, and bad guys have fun,
and get the girls! Listen to Johnny Cash! . . . more
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June 17, 2008 04:03 AM EDT --
it was a bleak, stark land
with two hundred flies
and no buzzards.
skeletons of dying spirits
provided bones for our
makeshift shelter.
i saw the skeleton of
the love we once had,
dying . . . more
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September 25, 2007 04:30 PM EDT --
Sometimes Cheyanne would ride her bike over to the high school and watch the kids there. "Two more years and I will be one of them" she thought .She would be in high school. She got . . . more
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June 17, 2008 04:07 AM EDT --
friendship was when
i held your hand
and we walked by
dried up creeks
with dead spirits on the banks
and saw nothing but paradise,
i think.
love?
love was when you left
and the colours . . . more
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June 22, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
I will open this discharge of provocative thought and statement with the observation that many WILL take offense! This isn't a straight attack on your Own Concept of National Identity, . . . more
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July 19, 2008 09:01 AM EDT --
It would seem that strange things are afoot in my life as a Sydneyite. At this time, as a Witch Broom apears in the front yard tree, the Pope is visiting Sydney. Our city and streets are full of . . . more
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