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Month: August 2012

Desert Kingsby Mike McCormick

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Every Writer

Tanned arms swing from the windows of a bone-white vehicle. The truck rattles west, where the sun is bleeding all down the horizon.

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Where Angels Fly Away by Valery V. Petrovskiy

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Every Writer

An angel was flying over a town with its wings snow-white and fluffy. It fluttered above red tiled roofs and variegated chimneys. It hovered over some young folks with their eyes lifted up to the sky, and it was just a girl?s drawing. With her aureate hair and timid smile from above, Gala appeared like an angel herself: she was very tall, quite young and extremely shy.

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English as a Home Language by Christopher Niemeyer

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Every Writer

His last name was Krasowicz. His family was from Chicago though he had grown up in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Chile. Because of his dad?s various jobs. An interesting family background for someone who was now a chubby, mostly bald nobody, sitting alone in a seedy bar in the outskirts of Nowheresville, USA. Strangely, he remembered that disturbing incident from his college days. Alcohol was the key to bad memories.

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Dream Catcher by Tantalus E

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Every Writer

A child reaches her hand up into a glittering web. She is caught under a spell of shimmering strings made of threads so fine that they hum with music of the passing wind. It is as if you can almost hear the gentle sound of glass raindrops falling on blue and white crossed strings

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Loose Ends By Ronald Robert Moore

Posted on August 13, 2012August 13, 2012 by Every Writer

The ambulance screamed through the night. Its exciting lights flashing there red and white warning. When my eyes opened, I stared blankly into the gaze of an Emergency Medical Technician.

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Wishful Thinking by Jules A Riley

Posted on August 6, 2012August 6, 2012 by Every Writer

Wishful Thinking by Jules A Riley ?You?re smiling?? Ludvik frowned.. ? It?s nothing,? replied Asdis. ?Come on, why?? ?I was thinking about the break.? ?I?ve enjoyed our short break too.? ?I was also thinking about the last ten years.? ?Ah.? ?We?re the world?s longest courting couple.? ?You know how it is. My mother, your father.?…

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