Tag: life
group name: writerscafe
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September 15, 2007 12:57 AM EDT --
My friend at work has an ongoing goal: to be her own hero. She has projects that she dreams of fulfilling, and when she gets frustrated or down, she reminds herself that she is her own hero.
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May 07, 2007 01:11 AM EDT --
I have recently finished wading through a pile of submissions that I evaluated for a writing contest. Do not let this happen to you. Even if the money sounds good, there is no way it's . . . more
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September 01, 2008 05:35 AM EDT --
When she told them the estimate date, March 26th the following year, reactions followed a trend. He gave her a long and confusing look – a smile, she thought at first – and left. Mother sighed and turned . . . more
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June 30, 2007 11:00 PM EDT --
Fecundity passes; I watch rosy youth bust out, looking for sensual healing; youths laugh, lean into one another and tilt their heads, just so - they hold hands, they're in their salad days, callow, . . . more
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May 18, 2007 12:34 AM EDT --
Mary rolls her trash down the driveway alone now that Nolo has died; decades of Saturday night dancing, summer swims and afternoon tennis are behind her; these days, ladies come to lunch or she flies to . . . more
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December 08, 2007 02:02 PM EST --
I will stay by your side on the darkest day
when your best intentions are not enough
lost in shadows I'll help you find your way
I'll stay by your side when it don't . . . more
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April 13, 2007 02:06 AM EDT --
I'm soldiering on here, as best I can. I'm doing my part, I'm taking care of the children, house, bills, work. Mother's off her meds, she slips away.
I don't know what keeps you . . . more
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May 06, 2007 06:18 PM EDT --
My neighbor walks with her neighbor, Mrs. Kim, who owns the restaurant with her husband. Together, they haul Mr. Smith's tree to the pickup they rented, to take the tree to the homeless shelter. Mr. . . . more
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November 19, 2007 04:27 PM EST --
This is a list of some of my earliest memories. Can You make a list of your earliest childhood days?
When coke cans had be opened with a can opener.
When Dairy Queen was the best place to eat. . . . more
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September 04, 2007 02:26 AM EDT --
As most people here know, Terry Shaw is the winner of The Gather First Chapters Writing Competition that ran last January. Geoffrey Edwards, another Gather member, is the runner up in the Gather First . . . more
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September 17, 2007 04:53 PM EDT --
As many here know, Terry Shaw was the winner of the Gather First Chapters Writing Competition, that was run in conjunction with Touchstone/Simon & Schuster that began last January.
As winner, his . . . more
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August 31, 2007 09:38 PM EDT --
I slept alone
with you beside me
quietly mourned
my loss
I talked to myself
with you on the line
desperately withheld
my grief
I danced alone
with you in my arms
cautiously expressed . . . more
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March 10, 2008 08:33 PM EST --
Over the Moon
Cattle call interviews make us animals, make us something to be butchered and ground into a uniform, gory mass by a cold machine that extrudes an identical shape for public . . . more
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June 10, 2007 06:06 PM EDT --
Forgotten Yesterdays,
of my youth;
Are scattered among,
the lies and the truth.
Forgotten Yesterdays,
haunt my mind;
As I search for answers,
which I can not find.
Forgotten Yesterdays, . . . more
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November 20, 2007 05:41 PM EST --
Think Back II is a list of songs that I remember back when I was a small child in the 60's/ What are some of the first songs that you remember?
1. Zaccheus Was A Wee Little Man . . . more
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January 12, 2008 11:37 AM EST --
What possesses some men to think that they can control a woman, and cause harm and terror? I grew up in a home where lived such a man. I married a man that made his way in the marriage . . . more
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July 23, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
Promises are sums of many quotients,
Promises are placebos,
Some are blatant premeditated untruths,
Splitting the frail thread of hope.
Disappointments nurture my pessimism,
I am naïve no more, . . . more
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February 23, 2008 07:21 PM EST --
Signed copies available at
http://www.vietnamnoregrets.com/
Vietnam: No Regrets
One Soldier's Tour of Duty
By J. Richard Watkins
193 Pages . . . more
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August 05, 2007 05:43 PM EDT --
I grew up in stereotypical suburbia in Sacramento, California. The kids played outside, rode their bikes, the parents visited each other, and we knew our neighbors. My grade . . . more
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October 06, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
This Life, My Life
I will never be,
The sort of woman,
Who cooks and cleans and enjoys it.
I will never be,
A woman who's content,
To watch the world go by while I sit. . . . more
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