http://thewriters.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by The Writers en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:50:54 GMT 2010-01-06T11:50:54Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977979466&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace The priest crossed the cloister garth of the convent watched from a high window by Sister Martha. Wonder where he’s going to now? Church probably to prepare for mass. There’s a bald . . . Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:15:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977979466&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Terry Collett 2010-01-06T11:15:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977979297&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Lucia Amazon went to the window. Across the way was the dome of the Duomo. It's strange, she mused, this is the first time I've been to Florence since I met Geoffrey here in 1926. I came with my mother . . . Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:40:41 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977979297&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Terry Collett 2010-01-06T08:40:41Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977978522&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Thought~Byte No.196       Concept and words by John Philipp. Drawings by Phil Frank. (The comments below are where the wisdom is found.)   Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:58:37 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977978522&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace John Philipp 2010-01-06T04:58:37Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977978498&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Thought~Byte No.195       Concept and words by John Philipp. Drawings by Phil Frank. (The comments below are where the wisdom is found.)   Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:56:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977978498&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace John Philipp 2010-01-06T04:56:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977978697&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Heart out on a fight My shirt is torn by your acid, your hatred. I bow before the allegations, the rage; feeling insignificant, inadequate.   An owl hoots to a metropolitan . . . Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:01:30 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977978697&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2010-01-06T01:01:30Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977977121&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Mrs Fitzgerald was the great Leveller; she brought everyone Down to her size with the sharp Scythe of her tongue. Did you See the Moran man come to his Home blinded by the drink last Night? . . . Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:35:02 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977977121&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Terry Collett 2010-01-05T07:35:02Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976916&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Whitechapel, London, 1888.  Victorian society was in full swing : gentleman's clubs, bare ankles being a sexually-charged sight and everything was prim and proper, buried beneath a thin veneer of . . . Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:59:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976916&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace James Lawrence 2010-01-05T04:59:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976906&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace In this post, I'm going to share how I prepared for my first and second novels and what I learned from the process.  I definitely want other authors to contribute on this as well because not everyone . . . Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:46:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976906&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Patricia G. 2010-01-05T04:46:58Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976631&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Black outs I breathe mist. The tunnel of winter spreads for fallen leaves, wintry angels, fading vagrants. I breathe mist while everything blackens; evanesces. Here, at this . . . Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:53:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976631&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2010-01-05T00:53:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976256&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace What makes your answer true? I feel that I am a real American, not only because of my birth but also because of my vision of what America is. America was built on the premise that ALL Americans have . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:26:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976256&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Bunny B. 2010-01-04T21:26:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976054&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Brother Thomas had whacked More boys buttocks that any Other teacher, Flint remembered Lying in the bed, watching Nancy Walk butt naked to the toilet across The bedroom floor and slipping Out the . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:04:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976054&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Terry Collett 2010-01-04T19:04:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975972&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace I am not trying to belittle the Hudson river airline pilots achievement last year when he managed to  land a plane on an icy river and allow all of his passengers and crew to be  rescued from . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:06:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975972&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace REGGIE R. 2010-01-04T18:06:58Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975523&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace If you played your cards Right you could have had Her, Davitt said, sitting comfy In the snug, his hand round a Glass of Jameson, his eye on Moonan who sat opposite Sipping his porter like . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:21:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975523&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Terry Collett 2010-01-04T12:21:58Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975372&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Life outside the box Of mental experience Is Paradise Found. Life outside the box Of conceptual matters Is self-transcending. Life outside the box Of self-reflective thought is Beyond conception. . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:26:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975372&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Richard Hay 2010-01-04T10:26:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975325&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Yes. You are right. It definitely needs to be rearranged. And maybe the total renovation is even better.   You make all the necessary calculations through Excel and conclude . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:38:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975325&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Jack Kuperman 2010-01-04T09:38:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975283&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace   You decided to do business with somebody, but when in her office, you heard a secretary speak about her as about alien. Should you act from now on this suspicion or should you learn for sure . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:57:23 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975283&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Jack Kuperman 2010-01-04T08:57:23Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975282&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Last month was the first off-line meeting of "Be Funny" club. Everybody told a joke. Some of them were even funny and I laughed.   My turn now. I stand up. . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:55:46 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975282&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Jack Kuperman 2010-01-04T08:55:46Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975280&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace   To be a good buyer is not easy.   I know. I am one of them. One of 'Good Consumers Association'. You know, those people, whom the surveyors phone last and . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:53:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975280&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Jack Kuperman 2010-01-04T08:53:12Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975274&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace   Why did you say that?   You could be silent. Does it matter if you are right or not? All the time, that being wrong keeps peace in the family, why do you have . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:48:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975274&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Jack Kuperman 2010-01-04T08:48:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975105&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace As one can tell, this column's title comes from a book of the same name, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.  The content, however, is vastly different.  Dostoevsky was writing about the Russia of his day, . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:21:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975105&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace James Lawrence 2010-01-04T06:21:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977949009&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace I left the house at 8 a.m. last week to take my cat to the vet for an appointment. I was 20 minutes late because I had to scrape ice off my windshield ! I demand an explanation . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:54:11 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977949009&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace John Philipp 2010-01-04T04:54:11Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974747&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace He  Lives  In   a  Bottle, Somewhere  in  the  mountains ; And  drinks  to  face  the  day. Then  he  drinks  . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:47:29 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974747&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Lonnie F. 2010-01-04T01:47:29Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974777&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Bitter taste of an afternoon A moment streams down the roof. The noise of rain enters. The northern window opens its thirst. Is it you homing? is it you a drenched bird is . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:01:37 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974777&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2010-01-04T01:01:37Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974455&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace When young Sister Felicity fainted in church during mass, falling sidelong into the choir stalls, casting her mass book helplessly across the floor of the aisle, causing a few disobedient heads to . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:18:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974455&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Terry Collett 2010-01-03T19:18:12Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974404&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace It’s a new year, a new decade, and time to start a new writing motivation exercise! This exercise is called Power Draft, and always occurs the first full week of the month. The objective is to state . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:33:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974404&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Pat S. 2010-01-03T18:33:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974312&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Your words drenched me with color and light A blanket of intimacy, swirled, blending patterns of the warmest amber and majestic purple I could not separate one piece of the quilt from another They . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:14:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974312&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace JustMe ~I'm happy to be~ 2010-01-03T17:14:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974231&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace “Morning Sunshine,” barked the boisterous Grandfather, Joe.             Aquarius yawned, awaking truant once again, “Morning! . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:20:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974231&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Paul Allen Leoncini 2010-01-03T16:20:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973403&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace   The child we leave I go down gradually; go under. Drown. The pregnant river radiates my soul.   I know I am waiting on the pier; a child. Two boats playfully . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:10:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973403&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2010-01-03T01:10:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977924852&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace This is the 2nd sequel, so please tell me before Adam and Eve can ever make it back together in Heaven forEver, Adam still needs to be punished for what he did to his wife. He was the . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:34:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977924852&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Angel sent from God Secret Sisters 2010-01-02T21:34:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973088&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Sinead showed her beauty Undressed in her bed, lying Beside Finn, who in his sleep, Spoke some other’s name, but She sexing it hot, heard it not, But in her own over the top . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:54:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973088&grpId=3659174697249433&nav=Groupspace Terry Collett 2010-01-02T19:54:58Z