Tag: fiction
group name: firstwriteit
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September 02, 2008 10:22 AM EDT --
Pain
He hurts.
Alone in bed,
late at night; always pain.
Can't move, can't turn, this can't be right.
He must keep fighting, can't give up the fight. . . .
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October 08, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
I was reading the paper on my front porch enjoying a cup of coffee when the devil came to visit. It used to come as a surprise to see him, but it has turned into a daily routine. I never know where I . . .
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November 15, 2007 07:21 PM EST --
“AIR FORCE ONE”
© Barbra L.
Cl air e and Montcl air Stevens were on their way to LaGuardia . . .
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February 19, 2007 03:42 AM EST --
"She hasn't talked since it happened," Mom said to her best friend. Though it had been about a month, I still couldn't get things past my mouth and out of it.
They said I was molested. . . .
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August 28, 2007 10:05 PM EDT --
Romantic Scavenge
They'd been together so long,
without ever getting married, but
knowing that she was ready to leave,
planned a romantic scavenge.
That Saturday, he took her to their special place . . .
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May 06, 2008 01:48 AM EDT --
You'll Survive
It was an unexpected pleasure to look on in amusement as your fairytale life turned to dust, while you looked on in total despair . This time, it wasn't . . .
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October 01, 2008 05:10 AM EDT --
Cracked Cup
I'd seen the cracked cup on my grandma's diningroom table, painstakingly glued together, for years. Nobody, and I mean nobody used it, but from time to time, it was filled with . . .
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June 03, 2007 11:46 PM EDT --
A first time novelist’s first time at the show (originally published on my website at www.duskbeforethedawn.net)
I went to BEA (and took my wife and son) for many reasons:
My first book (Dusk Before . . .
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November 02, 2007 07:08 AM EDT --
Sister Scholastica sipped the wine from the glass on the refectory table. Tongue tipped; felt the juice; remembered past and time; the taste rinsed down. Held the glass; peered at the distorted images; . . .
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February 11, 2007 09:50 AM EST --
Looking back to the year when I was only 15, it seemed that we were always surrounded by friends, family or classmates. Sometimes it felt so suffocating, I'd just want to run away with you, my love. . . .
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February 23, 2007 06:34 PM EST --
Sublime Abandon
As the roomfull of people watched, holding their drinks and looking over the appetizer tables, she looked at them from under long-lashed sky blue eyes. She attracted attention and . . .
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July 04, 2007 08:20 PM EDT --
“An Inspirational Constellation”
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Barbra L
On the grounds surrounding the beautiful cathedral, stood an old woman revelling in the sound of the a cappella voices trilling . . .
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November 25, 2007 07:34 PM EST --
“Nana’s Fur row ed B row ”
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Barbra L.
Katie excitedly wheel bar row ed Nana’s special dirt to the flower . . .
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May 21, 2007 03:55 PM EDT --
By Desiré Hendricks
She began writing the letter on the back of a flyer, a yellow piece of printer paper, screaming, COME GET CRUNKED! The bright missal invited the city to attend the Hip Hop . . .
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February 28, 2007 02:02 AM EST --
Forbidden Dreams
She'd been his blonde angel. He wanted her back at any cost. They'd been in a few classes at the same college and had coffee a few times together at the student lounge. She'd . . .
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October 01, 2008 04:55 AM EDT --
Forever New
My friend packed her just-used wedding dress, a beautiful thing, saying to me, "I'm saving this for the daughter that I will have; she can wear it and pass it on. It will be . . .
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September 21, 2007 08:00 AM EDT --
Would you rather I didn't see? Mae said, standing beside Brand who stood poised holding a gun at Claxton's head. Claxton was sitting in a chair bound by ropes around his arms. Brand‘s hand was . . .
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October 05, 2007 07:03 AM EDT --
The house seemed the same. The trees surrounding were larger; spread more wildly. Sophia stood; gazed at the door that had been painted black; seemed like a gate to some hell of her childhood. This . . .
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July 01, 2007 10:53 AM EDT --
He watched her from his window overlooking the parking lot just as he watched her every single night. She would walk to her car, fiddle with her keys, look around a bit nervously, open the door and . . .
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February 14, 2007 12:42 PM EST --
This is a two word challenge by the group Two Word Challenge, owned by Monica Kennedy and co-moderated by Kathryn - this is one of the challenges for the week. Gautami is the challenger. If you'd like . . .
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