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May.19.2013
Member Home Page:27557Article/Story/Poem/Essay:26900Audio:11316Press Release/Interview/Press Coverage:6430Blog Post:697010Upcoming Events:22377Image...
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lauren-lise-baratz-logsted's picture
May.19.2013
  The Moment I Stumbled Into YA: Writers write, so I started writing a new novel, chasing an idea that had caught my fancy. But, me being me,...
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farzana-versey's picture
May.19.2013
A flaky torn bit of page crumbled in my hand as I opened the bookshelf. The  remnant had left nothing to read.  The collection is eclectic, but I...
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rosy-cole's picture
May.19.2013
John Constable (above) Image below courtesy of Chris Ceaser   Imagine an English country lane, in an era before articulated transported, when...
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orna-b-raz's picture
May.19.2013
This poem approaches the creative process in a visual and intimate way. The poem is about her work, she is alone which is necessary for her...
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terry-spear's picture
May.19.2013
       Shelley, werewolf botanist, went with me to Carleen Bright Arboretum to check out the spring plantings. She was not...
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dr-steve-mcswain's picture
May.19.2013
I was born with a “W H Y” chromosome which is why I’ve been asking questions all my life. Unfortunately, many religious people are threatened...
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michael-warren's picture
May.18.2013
I remember when Father's Day was a more sober day, a day when spouses and children considered the gift their fathers had given them in shaping their...
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christine-hamm's picture
May.18.2013
    Breach   A crack. A creak. A groan. From the other side of the wracked fence, horses peer into the ditch. Hooves scrape away...
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nathan-burgoine's picture
May.18.2013
Husband and I officially kicked off our holiday by going out this morning, and I bought new work clothes! Yay? No. Boo. But hey, it needed to be...
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mark-gillispie's picture
May.20.2013
I have no idea whether this works or not. It could be one in a collection of short stories, or could be fodder for nothing. It can be found here:...
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annmarie-sauer's picture
May.20.2013
I have been away attending the PEN Conference together with three other colleges from Pen Belgium Dutch speaking. The conference was extra-ordinary:...
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virginia-campbell's picture
May.20.2013
THE "CADENCE OF GRACE" SERIES FROM AUTHOR JOANNE BISCHOF--a spiritual journey for two hearts in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia at the beginning...
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monique-belli's picture
May.20.2013
Sitting on the back porch (yes, foot elevated), drinking coffee, writing, watching the cats decide if they want to put a paw down on the wet grass,...
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sherrie-theriault's picture
May.20.2013
  May 20     Martinizing     The price of upkeep scares me, it daunts me even.  I pay the initial cost, I have bitten...
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chris-h-stevenson's picture
May.19.2013
You don't need an agent to be published. There are myriads of publishers out there that take un-agented subs and, quite surprisingly, dozens that...
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mary-walsh's picture
May.19.2013
I believe that the best  parental advice is sized accordingly to the current stage of our lives. Since respect is a two way street …what you...
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tami-ruth's picture
May.19.2013
I've just returned from seeing Pain and Gain up the street with D at the Television Academy of Arts and Science. We had seen ads for the film, which...
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bob-mustin's picture
May.19.2013
  There's nothing quite as fascinating - or as hopeful - as the re-creation of an old movie or, in this case a TV series. But you never...
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annette-talbert's picture
May.19.2013
One week later, Randy pulled up in Caroline's front yard. His old pickup truck rattled over the dirt drive in front of the house. Caro came out on...
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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.