Tag: stories
group name: writealready
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June 13, 2006 05:33 AM EDT --
Fireside 8: Hot Chocolate
What a wild evening it is! Thunder and sheet lightning all over the place. Damn, I'll have to oil these squeaking front door hinges. Oh, . . .
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June 05, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
Gun metal gray and sunset crimson
Shades of life
Emotion
Pain, despair
Joy , elation
Swirling, blending
Competing
No singular hue
Hoping in shades of tangerine
For a few . . .
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December 30, 2007 01:29 PM EST --
The guidelines for the Sunday Writing group remain pretty simple, and even though I'm going to follow this with a longer discussion, it's simply this:
Writers are encouraged to come . . .
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June 06, 2006 09:29 PM EDT --
I didn't know you'd be something to miss
Stored Away, returned on the whisper of the wind
The memory of one perfect kiss
The deliciousness of young love floods my brain
Rain washes over my . . .
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June 18, 2006 06:19 AM EDT --
Mrs. Oleski, is Stephen your son?
Yes.
Cool. Is Kristina your daughter?
Yes.
Kewl.
Would you like to join the PEN 15 club?
Jim, that line didn't work on me when my kids tried it, either. Your . . .
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June 23, 2006 04:42 AM EDT --
Fireside 10: Goodbye and Hello
Hi, this is the earliest ever that you've dropped by. Why, it's only just on dusk. My, that's a big motor home you've parked . . .
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September 08, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
So many things to see, so little time. My doctor informs me that I have less than a year to live, four months of good health before I am most assuredly bedridden. I walk around Italy drinking . . .
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July 30, 2008 10:54 PM EDT --
If only she could remember how she got here. What was this place? She knew, but she couldn’t remember.
“… I just wanted to stop by and see how you,” the blonde was saying. Heidi was the girl’s name; . . .
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September 23, 2008 01:40 AM EDT --
It was just a little thing.
“Are you certain?” he asked, finally. He had been silent when she had told him.
She nodded, feeling the tears rising up. She didn’t bother trying to stop them from . . .
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October 02, 2008 02:15 PM EDT --
He waited by the door of the taxi as she gathered up her teddy bear.
“Come now,” he coaxed her.
Athena slid across the seat, clutching the bear. She stood obediently by . . .
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February 10, 2007 10:49 AM EST --
Having one of my articles rejected from a group is demoralizing, and for this reason I've made every attempt to send an email explanation to anyone I rejected from my groups.
I'm going to . . .
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June 16, 2006 05:33 AM EDT --
Fireside 9: Friday, 13th
Oh, I thought I'd never see you again. You're brave to be out tonight, it being Friday the thirteenth, and all. Oh, you're not superstitious? . . .
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April 01, 2007 02:08 AM EDT --
Dead Man’s Hole
You can unearth some strange stories from the early years in the mountainous backcountry of San Diego County, but this is one of the strangest. If you travel up into the . . .
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June 11, 2006 10:39 AM EDT --
Every night his mother would curl on a reclining chair with her orange tabby, Princess. The cat laid constantly in arms, except for times when it had to "go piddle". Then . . .
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June 26, 2006 01:39 PM EDT --
Some of you will remember that on Friday I received a wonderful surprise in the mail. It was from Lillie, Jessie Voights daughter. She sent me some of her paintings. I was touched. It's not . . .
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January 08, 2008 07:42 PM EST --
I am a singer songwriter who also loves to take frequent dips into the world of writing. I am so very appreciative of Gather because it gives me a ready platform for both of these pursuits. . . .
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May 29, 2006 05:58 PM EDT --
How long can the crunch of gravel on a car's undercarriage go on for? Luck owes no man two seconds, maybe not even one.
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I'd befriended a band of thieves who would in the end steal . . .
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July 02, 2006 08:25 PM EDT --
We had our vacation all planned. We would leave here for Arkansas on July 1st at 7am. The two weeks before we were to leave, we had the air conditioning in the car repaired, a new tire put on the right . . .
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June 28, 2006 04:08 PM EDT --
Here is an easy recipe, which elicited a "that sounds dreadful" from a friend of mine, but, never mind, that friend was wrong. Xi hong shi jidan, or, (tomatoes and eggs {with scallions, . . .
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June 18, 2006 07:45 PM EDT --
This month my father turned eighty. When I look at his hands I see the wrinkled skin and prominent veins of the hands of an elderly man. This is my dad, but the handsome young man he was when I was a child . . .
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