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jill-jepson's picture
May.22.2013
With my classes over for the term, here are some of the things I'm reading and watching as my summer commences. None of these books are new—in fact,...
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farzana-versey's picture
May.22.2013
They hacked a soldier to death. What was as bad as the spectacle of TV anchors giving tantalising sound bites about the possible images of the...
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eleanor-cooney's picture
May.22.2013
The Time: Autumn, 1958. The place: the playground of the Washington Consolidated School, Washington, Connecticut. A big crowd of kids are in a circle...
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david-niall-wilson's picture
May.22.2013
When I started writing seriously, I attacked the challenge of the short story.  The first few times out the gate I remember how difficult it...
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steven-robert-travers's picture
May.22.2013
He grew up next to Steve Lavin in Marin, has worked the craft of acting all over the world, and now he is a heartthrob to millions of TV fans....
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anastasia-m-ashman's picture
May.22.2013
"I was a drifting ship. I now feel like I have just hoisted my sails, and can sense wind filling them." ~ longtime foreign correspondent,...
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dale-estey's picture
May.22.2013
As I tended to my creative chores by the window, a mercantile bubble exploded outside on the city street. I paused to watch.   A huge delivery...
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lauren-lise-baratz-logsted's picture
May.22.2013
  The Moment I Parted Company With Agent 5: Well, that was fast. Although Agent 5 had offered to represent me because she fell in love with Z: A...
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chris-rodell's picture
May.22.2013
  (692 words) I like to ask fitness fanatics if tragic circumstances required it which part of themselves would they eat first. This is...
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rochelle-jewel-shapiro's picture
May.22.2013
Just found out that KAYLEE'S GHOST is a finalist in the 2013 INDIE AWARDS.
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sherrie-theriault's picture
May.23.2013
  May 23     The Delano’s     Indifference is the backbone of power.  It is a state of faithlessness, not infidelity,...
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phil-naessens's picture
May.23.2013
The Cleveland Cavaliers hit the Lottery and the Indiana Pacers travel to Miami to take on the Heat in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals....
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robert-siciliano's picture
May.22.2013
Mobile technology is the new frontier for fraudsters. Today, there are more wireless devices than American people. Mobile devices connect to...
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nicholas-mackey's picture
May.22.2013
Extract from notebook 13.00, Good Friday 29th March 2013 while riding the train into London Waterloo: Idea for short story popped into my head called...
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paul-bates's picture
May.22.2013
2005’s A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE is one of those rare films in which the whole is equal by the sum of its dazzling parts. The cast, featuring Viggo...
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nicholas-mackey's picture
May.22.2013
My second submission for this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibtion is entitled, 'Past Present'. It is a diptych, like 'Primesight', based on a...
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nicholas-mackey's picture
May.22.2013
Here's an entry from my diary early July 2011: Went to the Afghanistan Exhibition at the British Museum today. Fascinating and if you haven't been...
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michael-seidel's picture
May.22.2013
Interesting article on CBS.com. '(CBS News) Modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has...
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michael-seidel's picture
May.22.2013
My wife was busy playing an online computer game.  She's a quadriple threat, making spectator comments and urging herself on like a coach or...
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raissa-falgui's picture
May.22.2013
Lately I've been watching a number of movies with endings that do not quite satisfy. These are all award-winning films, and I guess their way of...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.