Tag: short story
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December 23, 2009 11:42 PM EST --
North wind with Jack Frost and wayward winds
Santa loading sleigh, but let’s begin
Good little tykes and terrible twos
Awareness sets in, eyes sparkle truth
This never escapes your inner . . .
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December 03, 2009 04:14 AM EST --
This is the prompt for my Drabble I found it online hope you enjoy it I find it easier for me to write to prompts, it seems to jolt something in my imagination:
In the distance a man stood, half . . .
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August 12, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
To those of you who have already voted for my story, thank you so much! I really appreciate the vote - and the feedback I've received also.
If you haven't yet voted for it, please, . . .
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October 27, 2009 01:26 AM EDT --
My take on the "Romeo and Juliet" story.
Romeo and Juliet
Once a upon a time there was a boy named Romeo and a girl named Juliet. Juliet’s father did not care much for Romeo. . . .
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June 09, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
This week's prompt is the photo of the old shoe stuck in the mud and we are to tell the shoe's story from the shoe's perspective.
My partner and I lived happily . . .
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November 25, 2009 03:35 AM EST --
I'm always here waiting in the dark, I'm wondering when all the fun is going to start... we wander the streets especially at night in search of that one person who has their guard down, the one not . . .
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December 18, 2009 05:25 PM EST --
Sarah inhaled the fragrances of cinnamon and sugar and the chocolate chips melting into gooey deliciousness in the oven. Homey smells. Christmas smells.
She wanted to sit, relax, to inhale . . .
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December 21, 2009 11:00 AM EST --
In the last chapter, Sunshine had found a hidden rule about allowing women to become an Emperor. She somehow knew her entry into the competition would save Average Joe from the poison in the food . . .
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March 05, 2007 06:09 PM EST --
This short short story is based on the poem, "Billy Talbot", by Ed Nudelman.
Plato chases the ground hog under the deck, shoves his snout in against the edging and claws at . . .
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July 02, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
So... this morning, I saw one of Ernie's excellent articles about writing markets and I decided to get brave and enter one of my short stories. If you would consider being so kind as to drop by and . . .
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June 04, 2008 02:13 PM EDT --
The Easel Musings prompt is the Picasso painting.
This morning, as he had done many other mornings, Blake watched his wife stand before the mirror and silently apologize, not to herself, . . .
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June 30, 2008 10:11 AM EDT --
The nights are so long and lonely in this old house, especially when the wind howls eerily, the . . .
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July 06, 2008 02:01 PM EDT --
First draft - feedback is welcome.
Well. What a mystery! The police came to my house today, can you imagine? Two of them. A nice looking young man - well, he would have been nice looking if he hadn't . . .
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July 30, 2008 04:01 AM EDT --
Apple tree alley
Our first home
It was maybe the year 1999 or 2000. No, now I remember, it must have been the year 2001. The winter when there was a doping scandal - approximately at . . .
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December 01, 2008 12:14 PM EST --
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April 21, 2009 01:42 AM EDT --
Her morning voice was like the whispers heard on a summer’s night, clear as rinsed crystal. Champagne bubbled to the rim of her laughter and honey dripped its scent from the waking hive. Her . . .
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September 21, 2009 08:03 PM EDT --
I'm jumping up and down in excitement again (though my son says what's the point if I don't get paid)! I've got another short story published on NightsandWeekends.com . In fact, if you go to their front . . .
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October 31, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
They say the fabric stretches thin one night a year and think it’s those in graves that rise to haunt with curious rage. But I wait here, imagined fear on brightly painted page. I look . . .
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November 05, 2009 12:39 AM EST --
My Granddad was a lad when soldiers fought in Africa. Then friends dropped, caught in trenches; he got gassed. The English streets popped afterwards to shrapnel’s burning swell, and then… . . .
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September 13, 2006 09:59 AM EDT --
For three nights in a row it had happened, and Dana was a bit scared. She wasn't into superstition or anything like that. But she had to admit that for the past few nights she was starting . . .
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