Tag: stories
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January 07, 2007 06:50 PM EST --
After dabbling around the outskirts of Gather for almost a year, I had enough points to cash in for quite a few gift cards which made excellent stocking stuffers.
But then I began to wonder, how . . .
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November 01, 2007 10:03 AM EDT --
Two summers had passed, and Adele had chosen to spend both of them in their special place. She had met Tom nineteen years ago while she was vacationing on the Outer banks of North Carolina. He was attending . . .
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July 20, 2007 11:10 PM EDT --
I stood still as I held the postcard in my hand. I didn't have to flip it over, I knew exactly who it was from. Just by the sunny ocean view on the front of it, and the saying Life's a Beach in . . .
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March 01, 2008 09:42 AM EST --
There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, very early Pink Floyd. It was one of those evenings that could stretch to days. Adam's father . . .
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June 18, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
Where do I begin?? Well, I first encountered this mysterious person the first few weeks or months when I first moved in to this house. I was walking into the room and I was laughing with my ex. Suddenly, . . .
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July 22, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
July 11 - PM
My work day sucked, and I was glad to be going home for the night. I made more mistakes in today alone, than I did in the last six months. I couldn't focus though. My mind was on Johnny, . . .
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October 27, 2007 08:18 PM EDT --
Sometimes a person will put his writing on hold, thinking "I'm too old. If I wanted to be a writer, I should have started when I was young. My best days are behind me."
The truth of the . . .
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July 05, 2007 12:40 PM EDT --
Beautiful Bonita blessed by bountiful big busts, benefited by benefactors
buying bras belying bouncing, brought by being big and bountiful bent on
blaming Bonita by belittling . . .
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July 21, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
Tuesday, July 11
It was as if he meant to make me miss him. I stared at the postcard as I ate my breakfast. I didn't know how to respond. Not that I really could I suppose, but… I also . . .
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March 09, 2009 11:51 AM EDT --
Most people know that much of the events of the bible took place in Iraq. Before the time of Abraham, the ancient Israelites, a nomadic people was not yet known as the Hebrew nation. God spoke to . . .
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September 12, 2007 06:55 PM EDT --
Patience Needed....Apply within!
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May 25, 2007 01:33 AM EDT --
I've been married almost 4 years now, but b4 that, I had a series of yucky boyfriends. I thought it would be fun to post about our worst dates ever.
Here's mine:
The guy I was dating at the time . . .
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October 03, 2009 04:37 PM EDT --
This week's genre is Ghost Story . Your story may be serious or light hearted or as silly as you like just so long as it is 100 words or less and written for the following prompt
Jimmy has . . .
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August 27, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
I'm reposting this because I have a lot of new contacts who don't understand the "meaning" behind my icon so here it is. It all started with this story, one . . .
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July 19, 2007 07:12 PM EDT --
Dear Gather Friends,
Occasionally I receive calls for submissions from various magazines/publishers. I have no personal experience with this magazine, but thought I would pass this on to those of you . . .
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August 02, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
We are allowed one chance in this life to do things that make our time
spent here on hallowed ground worth while. Willow was young
and wanted very much to follow her dream . . .
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February 10, 2007 10:57 PM EST --
Annie Black was six years old. A pretty girl with dark black hair that sat on her shoulders, a rosy pink complexion and deep blue eyes. She was the youngest of six children. She lived in a housing commission . . .
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December 14, 2008 08:51 PM EST --
The problem was she felt nothing. It had little to do with the fact that she was dead. The truth was she had been a walking bag of empty for months. Long before her body hit the pavement, her ability . . .
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May 30, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
Jacob looked down in to the cellar and was astonished at what he discovered.
He knew there was some kind of animal in there because he had heard the
scampering of tiny feet many times, not being able . . .
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