Tag: living
group name: fictionaddiction
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March 22, 2006 06:01 PM EST --
The door opens with a "bang," the entry bell jingling pleasantly. Like many other doors on Main Street, this one is thickly painted, with leaded glass inset into its wooden frame. The door . . . more
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May 11, 2006 03:24 PM EDT --
I'm a gambler, but I never thought Russian Roulette would be my game. In my mind's eye, my life has become a gun, blued, cold steel, smelling slightly of oil and a tinge of ozone. A pearl . . . more
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June 19, 2006 04:18 AM EDT --
Last week I caught Anne and Babe in the bathroom doing crack; I no longer knew who she was. I grounded her; she ran away.
She called from a motel near Venice Beach; she was going to kill herself. . . . more
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December 27, 2006 02:32 AM EST --
I woke up to the sound of typing. My boyfriend was sitting at our desk, on his computer, working, on Christmas morning. On Christmas morning! As a self employed web developer he makes his own hours . . . more
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May 28, 2006 07:57 PM EDT --
Sheila's Night Out On The Town
This was not going to be another lonely Saturday night for Sheila. She had finally summoned up the nerve and decided after eight years to take the plunge. She was . . . more
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July 05, 2006 08:01 PM EDT --
Seven days ago I married a nerd. Now, nobody will talk to me. It all started off as a bet. Destiny has a strange way of changing people.
It happened one night at the Sea Breeze Bar where my friends and . . . more
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June 06, 2006 04:02 AM EDT --
Pure Evil - Stalking Lizzeth
They had a deep seated desire to see her suffer. They malingered at first. They harbored feelings of ill will and sought satisfaction. They carried on secretly, . . . more
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April 11, 2006 11:55 PM EDT --
Sitting at her desk, today the Quill peers into the future and wonders about those who will live one-hundred and ten years from now. She fears a new, and as yet, unseen world where people speak to each . . . more
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October 30, 2006 07:13 PM EST --
Two Word Challenge
Bated Breath=to reduce the force or intensity of : RESTRAIN <with bated breath>
The night was calm and peaceful as we set out on our walk. Above us, stars shone . . . more
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October 13, 2006 06:22 PM EDT --
The low floodlights come up first, gels of blue, deep red, purple and some muted yellows. Hakim, with his own mini floodlight in the left-hand bass drum takes up the beat, both feet beating out . . . more
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June 27, 2006 10:05 AM EDT --
Agent George Stone
Agent George Stone had been driving all day in the sweltering heat of the Arizona sun. Night had finally came and without warning a thick fog had descended down upon the road and . . . more
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November 25, 2006 07:12 PM EST --
There is our restaurant, that breakfast place we went the next morning after that first time. You raved about the waffles and fed me bits of caramel . . . more
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April 29, 2006 05:52 AM EDT --
Sue sat in a room with only a bare bulb overhead and a pack of Gitanes and Camels in her hand.
Her eyes burned in the haze thick as soup that swirled above the bulb; her nose was buried in her book as . . . more
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August 04, 2006 11:27 PM EDT --
Fiction
serious critique solicited
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I can feel the sounds around me. They are like the rain and wind and leaves are to all of you. The noise itself has a texture, much like the ways you describe . . . more
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October 03, 2006 10:52 AM EDT --
The Cat's Seat
I love her but damn. Look at her lying there on her back. She takes up the entire couch. She is not a petite . . . more
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September 08, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
So many things to see, so little time. My doctor informs me that I have less than a year to live, four months of good health before I am most assuredly bedridden. I walk around Italy drinking . . . more
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July 05, 2006 11:22 AM EDT --
It was always Tommy. He spoke, and they crowded him with their eyes.
He was bigger than me, bigger than all of us, and sooner too. His hormones bestowed towering height and bulging girth. It seemed . . . more
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April 01, 2006 04:13 AM EST --
The morning Sue Hapenny was born, circus elephants danced, lions jumped through rings of fire, and choirs of angels sang throughout the heavens. Or so she was told.
After hours of labor in which . . . more
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April 13, 2006 04:22 PM EDT --
This is my first attempt at a summary for my novel.
Please proof, review, critique, edit and advise. Thanks.
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"In A Vehicle To Somewhere"
A story about the resiliency, . . . more
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April 29, 2006 03:06 PM EDT --
She had been careful with her virginity, as if it were a hundred-dollar-bill she felt unable to spend on new shoes for fear of missing the rent. She had tested her men with wildness, . . . more
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