Tag: chapter 1
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November 07, 2009 09:09 AM EST --
Good morning! Here's an excerpt from my book, which releases this month. Thanks for reading! -Kim
Key Players
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February 22, 2007 03:33 AM EST --
Like many newcomers to Gather, I joined because of the "First Chapters" contest. I'm not new to the online world; I blog regularly and participate in a number of online communities. But I'd . . .
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January 26, 2007 04:46 PM EST --
Heritage
Prologue
Gabriel Gairden's tall frame tensed as he crept through the halls of the Ivory Palace. The dark marble floors were slick with grime and gore, as were the . . .
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January 17, 2007 08:55 PM EST --
I know that Gather is having another contest to bring in more writers, and I'm seeing an awful lot of these 'First Chapters", in the lists of articles.
What I am NOT seeing are . . .
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February 09, 2007 11:32 AM EST --
Love's Laboratory
Prologue
Her hand was hot, slick with perspiration, but Tuan clutched it almost painfully dragging her along and up the makeshift ladder. She screamed a . . .
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January 19, 2007 09:02 PM EST --
I don't think I ever realized the significance of a novel's title until I entered this competition. With so many first chapter submissions (and so little time), are you also choosing . . .
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May 06, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
Chapter 1
“Happy people” I thought with great disdain as I glanced around the bar. Small independent groups of college students and regulars were happily chatting unaware of . . .
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June 08, 2008 02:42 PM EDT --
Earth, Dimensional Level three. Circa 1966.
We enter a darkness filled room. There are odors of cancer and death. A young girl lies sleeping. Connected to her are medicine tubes and an oxygen mask. . . .
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March 09, 2007 05:28 PM EST --
Where it Brakes
"I wished for a pony," she said.
"Chloe, you're twenty-seven years old," said Jack.
"I know," she said. "It was all . . .
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September 02, 2008 01:06 PM EDT --
I was watching some show on some network the other day, and some of the guest speakers on this show were going on and on about how the first chapter of the book of Ezekiel in the Bible is actually desribing . . .
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January 29, 2007 05:07 AM EST --
I'll try to make this really short and sweet.
I did not submit an entry to the First Chapters contest, nor will I. I have, however, been reading many of the submissions anbd enjoying quite a . . .
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December 14, 2007 05:47 PM EST --
Blood Oath
by Shawn P Mahoney
The black sedan turned the corner and crept down the street.
Behind the wheel sat Maxmillian "Mad Max" DeSalvatore. Max had just . . .
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January 09, 2008 08:10 PM EST --
This is going to be a totally clean little story. It does deal with homosexuality, but there will not be any sex in this story. You can also read this story on my blog at:
I'm . . .
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January 24, 2007 06:23 PM EST --
I don't know how many other people have been affected by the "anti-fraud" voting thing on the writing contest, but I'm worried that it might very well have shot my entry in . . .
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October 17, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
Phillip had known he wanted to be a lawyer since high-school. He had joined the debate team, accepting the challenge to go up against some of the most brilliant classmates at Franklin High, . . .
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March 06, 2007 02:00 PM EST --
WorseThan Weeds
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself, it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For . . .
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November 13, 2008 08:38 AM EST --
Chapter 1
It’s generally inappropriate to call a woman in tears a bastard or a son of a bitch, and ordering them to die and rot is fairly tasteless most of the time as well. At least before you . . .
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March 11, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
As I write this, my entry into the First Chapters contest is about to expire on Monday March 12 at about noon. This is a good time to take stock about my experience in the contest and give . . .
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January 15, 2007 09:52 PM EST --
Kael could not accept what his eyes were telling him. A great eagle head was protruding from his chest! His whole torso seemed to be totally immersed in a blinding light. The light began to spread until . . .
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January 27, 2007 11:36 AM EST --
Greetings, all! I'm rather excited to see what people have contributed to the First Chapters contest - hopefully there'll be some great stories that hit the ground running and take off. Here's . . .
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