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May.05.2013
Promise of Tomorrow Volume 2: Discovery reveals some secrets.
My new Amish serialized novel started with the destructive forces of nature, sending the Umble family running for their lives. They boarded a transport as a tornado destroyed their home.
In Discovery, the transport arrives at...
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Apr.15.2013
April 15
Chickens and Eggs
Who is more sober the early riser or the long-timer? How do we get here and what does it mean. It all starts with a day, which is good because this is more than we had hoped for, sometimes more than we could do. Then it...
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Feb.06.2013
February 6
Two Powers
The river and the bridge; one force swift and roiling the other stolid and stoic, the first carries me away and the other carries me over. For the love of liquid, current and life I have slipped in to the water and washed; my life abandoned....
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Jan.19.2013
Day Five
I'm back at Tammie's. Being with my grandchildren is temporarily therapeutic. Teri talked to Dennis, who is still at the house, refusing to leave. He is angry that I had told him I would...
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Dec.27.2012
December is a contradictory month. Seasons end and start. The holiday season hits a few high notes, peters into a slow decay and then comes to the last day and gives a final shout. Fall ends and winter begins up here in the northern hemisphere. Down below the equator, they're...
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Dec.07.2012
Although I write every day, working on a novel, short story or essay, there are times I need a large space of time away from these daily tasks. Flush out my mind and reset my senses in a place that will allow me to anticipate the stories to come, I head for the South for the next week....
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Nov.27.2012
I ran away once,
but I didn't get far.
I ran away twice,
but the room was filled with bars.
I ran in circles,
I ran in my dreams,
I ran away thrice,
but I can't get free.
© annettealaine-2012
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May.22.2012
I get asked a lot about coming from England to America, how far it is to travel, time it takes, the fact I haven’t lost my accent and even what I think of America. But for me it was just 3000miles and at least the language is the same, okay more or less the same. But imagine how it was for my...
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Apr.24.2012
April 24
ESCAPING THROUGH THE CEILING
Up and away is my motto; upwardly mobile is my goal. If I can flee without leaving a track, I’m clean. No heart-wrenching walk down the aisle or the lane. No dust on my shoes. No possibility of stumbling....
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Dec.29.2011
The bikers have rented a self-contained flat in the upstairs part of a nice enough house on a nice enough street not far from Edgbaston cricket ground. Whoever lives downstairs is either dead, deaf, or terrified - quite possibly all three. In the interests of security, the Road Rats have nailed the...
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