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November 20, 2009 08:16 PM EST --
“There’s a ship!”
It was exciting at first. Maybe Mayflower had returned, but she stayed offshore.
“Still there.”
The people watched and grew afraid.
“Close . . .
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November 18, 2009 04:56 PM EST --
“We’re free from Crown and Bishop here.”
“And from soldiers defending us.”
“We fight alone.”
So they marched to rescue their captured friend—a . . .
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November 12, 2009 02:50 PM EST --
I saw the ads for this book when it first came out and was curious, but somehow never got round to reading it. Then I found it cheap in Powells and made up for lost time. It’s an incredible . . .
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November 12, 2009 02:48 PM EST --
I don’t think I know any Southern Belles, but after reading this book I feel like maybe I’ve met one. It’s a delightfully crazy account of the dating game, related by a divorced . . .
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November 12, 2009 02:46 PM EST --
Many years ago one of my sons was a distinctly reluctant reader. We discovered graphic novel versions of various classic books in a store in England and started buying them for him. And he started . . .
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November 12, 2009 02:39 PM EST --
War or Peace: I don’t mind. Here’s the deal; tipped arrow, deathly pointed, or blunt release. Which one d’you choose?
And yes, I know I’m not wearing coat and pants. . . .
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November 11, 2009 07:15 PM EST --
Sea and sky colored dismal in fading light draining to speckled haze.
“Don’t like it here,” said Emma watching Mayflower’s wavering form.
“Tough.” . . .
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November 09, 2009 02:10 PM EST --
I want to be a writer. I really, really want to be a writer. But I'm not sure the odd self-published book can count - do real writers run round the room shouting "Hurray" when they've sold a whole seven . . .
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November 05, 2009 08:08 PM EST --
I've just set up my stall for the first Christmas Bazaar of the season. (And yes, I know it's not Christmas yet, but there aren't that many weekends left for bazaars.) I'm really really hoping I might . . .
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November 05, 2009 12:53 AM EST --
“Four strong winds that blow lonely.” He’d tasted them all, sand and salt, with dry mineral sting. But the fire in his eyes burned for things he had done and “The good times . . .
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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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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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October 31, 2009 11:28 AM EDT --
An Uncommon Sparrow, by Janelle Ashley White Rose Publishing is offering An Uncommon Sparrow , by Janelle Ashley, as a free download. It’s a really lovely short story, only eight pages long, . . .
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October 31, 2009 11:25 AM EDT --
I’d heard of this book before I read it. It sounded intriguingly like a cross between Ender’s Game , Logan’s Run and A Canticle for Leibowitz . (You can tell what sort of books . . .
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October 31, 2009 11:21 AM EDT --
An elf thief and vampire elf-kin, brooding mansions replete with gargoyles, and a snooty twenty-thousand-year-old king who thinks he calls the shots; Gracen Miller creates an interesting cast of characters . . .
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October 28, 2009 02:21 PM EDT --
Sam thought a balloon with a sheet on top might bob around in the air and look like a ghost. Dad said it wouldn’t work of course, but Mom said they should try. And Dad was right.
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October 28, 2009 01:50 PM EDT --
Kay's prompt and my response:
The library has been burned to the ground. Who would do such a thing and why.
“Sticks and stones’ll break my bones but words’ll never . . .
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October 28, 2009 01:08 PM EDT --
The waves’ sweet susurration sounded softly in his ears. His tears blended with sea-salt spray portending eventide. The man who watched the waters turned away, his thoughts for sorrow and the . . .
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October 23, 2009 12:48 AM EDT --
My son's still home - well, coming back again tomorrow - and I don't know how I'm ever going to get round to properly catching up on gather. But Susan's Friday freewrite prompt caught my eye, so here's . . .
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October 23, 2009 12:27 AM EDT --
“I'm never going back to my old school.”
“Why not?” said Pete.
“Because…” Lynn sighed.
“’Cause what?” . . .
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