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harrison-solow's picture
May.25.2013
 Many years ago, when I was in New York on business for my university, a very jealous colleague took the opportunity of my absence to commit an...
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louise-young's picture
May.25.2013
  At dawn, the window of sky above our narrow river valley is featureless, a muddy pool, but at the lake the horizon opens to reveal a thin band...
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terry-spear's picture
May.25.2013
Do you ever see a movie or read a book and then see something later that reminds you of that story? First, I saw the Jurassic Park vehicle that...
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bill-hayes's picture
May.25.2013
One evening last summer, I headed out to see a friend’s band at a bar in Brooklyn, not the kind of thing I’d normally do with work the next day...
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nathan-burgoine's picture
May.25.2013
This is another time-travel post I set up to post in the wee-hours for today's Short Stories 365 a while back, before I left for New Orleans and the...
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orna-b-raz's picture
May.25.2013
The Hebrew title for this poem is translated to English as "impoverishment." I decided to choose "Lose All" since I felt that to start the poem with...
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anastasia-m-ashman's picture
May.24.2013
  I have a friend who's not very into digital life. Whenever she opens her email it's flooded by spam and she can't find anything valuable in...
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gloria-oliver's picture
May.24.2013
EPIC       Starring: Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Beyoncé Knowles, Blake Anderson, Aziz...
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stephen-evans's picture
May.24.2013
I use this comic structrue in almost any narrative I write. It is from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden.  Aristotle indeed divides the...
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earl-merkel's picture
May.24.2013
Hey, you-- the driver who, a few minutes ago, swerved over the orange double stripes on Ogden Ave. to pass the cars in the two lanes on your OWN...
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fran-lewis's picture
May.25.2013
The Tragedy of King Lewis The Sixteenth: David Lane King Lewis XVI is a uniquely present play written by author David Lane in blank verse and classic...
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susan-marie-schulhof's picture
May.25.2013
       20,000 words are written!  
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barry-eva's picture
May.25.2013
From an early love of reading Sherlock Holmes through a traveling sports reporter to working with police officers every day at the emergency 9-1-1...
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virginia-campbell's picture
May.25.2013
   Kate Walker has been writing romance for over 25 years, and her contemporary love stories are classic tales of passion, filled with...
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phil-naessens's picture
May.25.2013
  Ike Davis is lousy, Don Mattingly's job is in jeopardy and the Oakland A's just might have the best bullpen in the Major Leagues....please...
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manny-pacheco's picture
May.24.2013
Crime and punishment in Chicagoland is today’s topic. Thanks to the Hop On-and-Hop Off Tour and the Untouchables Tour, Laurie and I took today, we...
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bob-mustin's picture
May.24.2013
  Finally - another dream made real! The link below will take you to the first GridleyReview, a re-do of last week's post on W.J. Cash's THE...
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william-thompson-ong's picture
May.24.2013
And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. --Lee Greenwood
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suellen-ocean's picture
May.24.2013
The historical events that led to the Civil War are not simple nor interpreted the same by historians and conspiracies abound. In the United States,...
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michael-seidel's picture
May.24.2013
While I'm writing fiction, even science fiction and fantasy, I like to ensure that I keep science correct and internal logic intact.  If I veer...
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