Tag: non fiction
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April 20, 2009 04:18 AM EDT --
Child Of Abuse
You, child of abuse,
fully grown, no trust inside;
still thinking you're of no use.
I'd tell you, you'll be all right,
but I'd just by telling you . . .
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March 10, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I just got done reading "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman. A published writer stuck on a juvenile delinquent character in a book he is writing approaches a friend that teaches writing . . .
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September 02, 2008 10:22 AM EDT --
Pain
He hurts.
Alone in bed,
late at night; always pain.
Can't move, can't turn, this can't be right.
He must keep fighting, can't give up the fight. . . .
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December 05, 2009 06:58 PM EST --
Non-fiction/Memoir
Circular Passage: A Young Man’s 480-Day Global Odyssey
Robert V. Hardy
2008
Booksurge.com
ISBN: 1-4392-1398-4
Pages: 370
Circular Passage: A Young Man’s . . .
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September 11, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
She doesn't want to live like this. She sits, most of the day in the den with the same channel on the TV. Whatever comes on, she watches. Or doesn't.
She's told us over and over that she's . . .
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March 30, 2008 06:27 PM EDT --
It's immediately apparent that Edward Ugel, the author of this book, doesn't take himself too seriously. I'm glad he doesn't, because that is part of what makes this book so great! . . .
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March 18, 2009 07:22 AM EDT --
I picked up this book because at this point I'm grasping at straws. I really wanted to find out what the deal was with successful relationships and why I can't seem to make it work. . . .
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May 06, 2009 12:55 PM EDT --
I went to the hospital to visit a friend but when I arrived the nurses were getting her ready to be wheeled away for tests and I said "I'll come back later" and that is when the elderly . . .
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March 08, 2007 06:42 AM EST --
This happened back when my Mom and Dad were dating. They couldn't afford to do too much as both families were poor, so the little places they went were fun and meant a lot. They'd gone to a play . . .
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June 26, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
There was once an eight year old girl who wasn't pretty. She wore thick glasses so heavy they rubbed sores on her nose where they sat. The other kids called her four eyes. She had long, stringy red . . .
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September 08, 2007 11:38 AM EDT --
Okay, John Stanford probably wasn't talking to writers when he revealed his secret to success.
He probably wasn't thinking about how to create unforgettable charcters, or how to make your screenplay . . .
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October 15, 2007 10:23 PM EDT --
In the late summer each year
From the back of a battered blue pickup
He brought a harvest to be canned.
His wife stood and stirred the big bubbling pots
Bent over them with tendrils . . .
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February 27, 2009 07:12 AM EST --
My first experience with autism was just a few months ago, when I attended a week-long program for parents of autistic children. I arrived there as an interpreter for a family from Poland and . . .
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August 03, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
The Picture
It hung in the living room, the entire time I was growing up. I stared at it over the years, seeing the parents that I wished I'd known when they were young. The picture was black . . .
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October 30, 2009 03:25 PM EDT --
The Closet --- FWE, October 30, 2009, Nancy L.
When I was little, Dad never talked about the war. He'd joined young, as had his brothers and the only thing he told me, was never to go . . .
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October 31, 2009 02:53 AM EDT --
Feeling Death
Do you feel it? I always have. Since I don't want to develop this gift, or curse, if you will, because when I did, things didn't turn out well. That, I won't go into, so I might . . .
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February 27, 2007 06:51 PM EST --
The Perfect Couple
They were married, in love and happy. As time passed, things weren't going as well for them as they had been; as they'd gotten laid off from jobs and were hunting for new ones . . .
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May 18, 2008 08:55 AM EDT --
This is an autobiography by possible our next President. I love it when writers do this early in their life. Most autobiographies are written after people lives are almost over. . . .
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June 04, 2008 09:23 PM EDT --
Jeff was a rooster—that's the only way I can accurately describe him. It wasn't that he was cocky (far from it actually), he just always reminded me of a rooster. A tall lanky guy with . . .
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June 05, 2008 07:29 PM EDT --
There is a formula to popularity, particularly in elementary school. I learned this a long time ago in third grade. You see, my friend Kaylee took it upon herself to give me cool lessons because I was . . .
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