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charles-a-ray's picture
Aug.08.2008
I can’t help wondering some times if I am the only one who notices our society’s growing obsession with personal comfort at the expense of...
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terence-clarke's picture
Aug.08.2008
93Si alguna vez tu pecho se detiene, si algo deja de andar ardiendo por tus venas, si tu voz en tu boca se va sin ser palabra, si tus manos se...
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jt-ellison's picture
Aug.08.2008
Home is where the heart is, right? I've been thinking about what "home" means to me lately. The past few weeks on Facebook, I've had a run...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Aug.08.2008
Imagine this dystopic existence: What if you couldn't pick the soundtrack to your life? What if the songs that ran through your head your whole life...
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marilyn-kallet's picture
Aug.08.2008
A few years back, John Updike was a guest of the University of Tennessee.   He volunteered to come over and speak informally to the English...
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bill-schmalfeldt's picture
Aug.08.2008
Hey, Buddy... can you stop a second? Yeah.  You.  Can I talk to you for a minute? No!  Don't look at me like that.   GET BACK HERE!  Don't walk away...
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diane-chamberlain's picture
Aug.08.2008
My neighborhood bookclub met tonight to discuss Julie and Julia, by Julie Powell. (For those of you who don't know, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Powell...
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anne-brooke's picture
Aug.08.2008
Last day before our holiday today, hurrah! So I'd really better go and pack soon. For those of you keen on Norfolk, we'll be stayinghere for a few...
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jeffrey-ricker's picture
Aug.08.2008
...over here,you'll see the cover of the anthology (co-edited by two people whom I admire greatly) in which one of my stories will appear. Not only...
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bill-schmalfeldt's picture
Aug.08.2008
Goodness!  Brett Favre's been a New York Jet for a bit more than 24 hours already, and THEY HAVEN'T WON A SUPER BOWL YET??? No wonder the New York...
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mary-rose-ong's picture
Oct.26.2008
”Just choose to be happy everyday, every time you wake up make that choice.” -  This is what my friend told me when we talked one time for this...
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mary-rose-ong's picture
Oct.26.2008
It’s been seven years now since I’ve been sitting inside a classroom, of equation, formula, theories and remarkable facts, as if I’m drowned by the...
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mary-rose-ong's picture
Oct.26.2008
Not everybody in this world are fond of writing, but for me, it’s one of those things I have passion for.  Stream of consciousness to express what I...
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mary-rose-ong's picture
Oct.26.2008
It’ just one of those ordinary days that I woke up, preparing myself to go to work and getting a ride going to Ortigas.  I rode the FX and while...
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kim-smith's picture
Oct.25.2008
Cozy mysteries are a subgenre of the mystery genre that has a tremendous following. If you are writing in the cozy mystery vein, or want help to do...
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maxine-p-soso's picture
Oct.25.2008
Deep in a cornerIn the back of my mindA vision of you awaits to be seen I awakeAndThere you areright where I left youthe night beforeWhen I first...
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gayle-hansen's picture
Oct.25.2008
I am not a very nice person. WITNESS:  so sez the little girl (I really have no idea if that's true, that she's a little girl, that's just how she...
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maxine-p-soso's picture
Oct.25.2008
It's amazing how much we're alike the understanding we have of one another the way we finish each others sentences continue each others thoughts Our...
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maxine-p-soso's picture
Oct.25.2008
The night we met is embedded in my mind you were everything I needed you to be and, more When you... laid me down at your feet And... kissed me...
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maxine-p-soso's picture
Oct.25.2008
I've kissed your lips a thousand times in my mind I can only see who you appear to be behind my computer screen Something inside me cried out I...
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