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terry-odell's picture
Oct.01.2008
        The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that...
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pauline-rowson's picture
Oct.01.2008
I'm preparing for a talk I am giving tomorrow at a Women Into Business conference in the UK. I am the keynote speaker so I need to make sure that I...
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rosy-cole's picture
Oct.01.2008
In memory of John Erwin Doerper's late lamented Fred, I submit this piece of genius by one of my favourite poets, Rupert Brooke, in the hope that the...
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darlene-arden's picture
Sep.30.2008
Raise your hand if you love to read. Yes, we're a gathering of authors and I'm willing to bet that each of us had the love of reading encouraged at...
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marilyn-kallet's picture
Sep.30.2008
My old cat Jacques always screamed at me when I practiced reading aloud.  Those days, I stood before the hall mirror and performed my poems with...
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rosanna-i-porter's picture
Sep.30.2008
When I wrote my story, Tofu Ling, I felt that it was important to include a section in the back of the book that provided adults/parents and teachers...
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julianna-baggott's picture
Sep.30.2008
You’re hearty stock. This is obvious. You don’t have prissy notions about the muse as some airy thing that sometimes does and sometimes...
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sherry-jones's picture
Sep.30.2008
Dear Martin, Keep heart! I am writing to admonish you to courage. Martin, if you let a few thugs frighten you away from publishing The Jewel of...
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ellen-r-sheeley's picture
Sep.30.2008
Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan and the beginning of the month of Shawwal, begins today in Jordan,...
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terence-clarke's picture
Sep.30.2008
The new rudeness is silence. I first became aware of this during the dot.com bust of 2000, when I was working as a marketing executive for an...
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former member's picture
Nov.26.2008
by former member
"Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in...
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debbie-dunham's picture
Nov.26.2008
  Last week we learned that a man we'd known for many years had died in December.  We haven't seen much of him and his wife for the last few years...
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former member's picture
Nov.26.2008
by former member
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20081124/Muslim.Charity.Trial/
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jason-rowsey's picture
Nov.26.2008
We all have read about the worsening shape of the American economy these days.  It seems like it is the lead story on every news channel, the lead in...
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jason-rowsey's picture
Nov.26.2008
Many people write these days about the needs of various types of reform that might improve our public school systems.  As an educator at the...
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former member's picture
Nov.26.2008
by former member
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/112008/11262008/427447
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kathy-garcia's picture
Nov.26.2008
With it seems blood dripping upon the keyboard I finally see the NaNo end in sight.  Just a few days ago I began to doubt I could finish this month...
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ieva-melgalve's picture
Nov.26.2008
I am sneaking away from my children (especially the toddler) to write. After fuming and promising to lock myself in the WC without coming out until...
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former member's picture
Nov.25.2008
by former member
The Funky Door stands in front of me, flames inclusive, and the notable detail is that the windows are fogged, and dripping, as if there was a murky...
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meredith-morgan's picture
Nov.25.2008
About five years ago I started experimenting with voices and novel genres. The result of that was an avalanche of stories that  quite literally fell...
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