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Richard Edwards has a BFA in Creative Writing and Journalism from Bowling Green State University and an M.S. in Education from the University of Akron. Managing editor of Drunk Duck, poetry editor for Prairie Margins, reporter for Miscellany, Akron Journal, Lorain Journal, and The BG News. He has also worked as a professional writer and editor in the medical publishing industry for several years. For the last 15 years Richard has also taught literature and writing at the secondary and post-secondary levels. He works much of the time with at-risk students.
the dead by james joyce

The Dead by James Joyce

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Every Writer

James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet considered to be one of the most influential writers of the early 20th century. Joyce was born and raised in Dublin

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To the Man on the Trail by Jack London

To the Man on the Trail by Jack London

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Every Writer

To the Man on the Trail

by Jack London

‘Dump it in!.’ ‘But I say, Kid, isn’t that going it a little too strong? Whisky and alcohol’s bad enough

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The Guitar Man and the Pigeon by Ben Westerham

The Guitar Man and the Pigeon by Ben Westerham

Posted on December 11, 2023 by Every Writer

Ben Westerham has recently let slip the chains of paid employment so he can spend ever more time writing crime, mystery and thriller stories as well as spending time reading, gardening and uncovering fascinating nuggets about his criminal ancestors.

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After Twenty Years by O. Henry

After Twenty Years by O. Henry

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Every Writer

The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few.

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What Christmas is as We Grow Older by Charles Dickens

What Christmas is as We Grow Older by Charles Dickens

Posted on December 7, 2023 by Every Writer

Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments

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A Job of Work by Salvatore Difalco

Posted on December 5, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Part of my responsibilities included watching over the people in hibernation. Checking gauges, testing the surface tension of the Plexiglass housing, monitoring moisture and so on

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A Christmas Accident Annie Eliot Trumbull

A Christmas Accident by Annie Eliot Trumbull

Posted on December 1, 2023December 7, 2023 by Every Writer

A Christmas Accident by Annie Eliot Trumbull   AT first the two yards were as much alike as the two houses, each house being the exact copy of the other. They were just two of those little red brick dwellings that one is always seeing side by side in the outskirts of a city, and…

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The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Posted on November 28, 2023November 28, 2023 by Every Writer

“Phil, I’m getting fearfully hungry. When are we going to strike civilization?”

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Christmas Every Day by W. D. Howells

Posted on November 27, 2023 by Every Writer

Christmas Every Day by W. D. Howells The little girl came into her papa’s study, as she always did Saturday morning before breakfast, and asked for a story. He tried to beg off that morning, for he was very busy, but she would not let him. So he began: “Well, once there was a little…

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The Shine of a Sinful Heart by Ximena Escobar

Posted on November 26, 2023 by Every Writer

Her small chest woke her. The heart rattling inside it. Like an alarm clock palpitating in secrecy, until the time came that she could no longer ignore it.

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The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Posted on November 25, 2023 by Every Writer

The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky   I am a novelist, and I suppose I have made up this story. I write “I suppose,” though I know for a fact that I have made it up, but yet I keep fancying that it must have happened somewhere at some time, that it must have…

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Thanksgiving at the Polls by Edward Everett Hale

Posted on November 22, 2023November 22, 2023 by Every Writer

Frederick Dane was on his way towards what he called his home. His home, alas, was but an indifferent attic in one of the southern suburbs of Boston.

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Old Man Rabbit’s Thanksgiving Dinner Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Posted on November 18, 2023 by Every Writer

Old Man Rabbit sat at the door of his little house eating a nice, ripe, juicy turnip. It was a cold, frosty day, but Old Man Rabbit

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Cold Shoulder by Hugh Cartwright

Posted on November 17, 2023November 26, 2023 by Every Writer

Freshly dead, she was pinned to the desk by a knife. Smears of blood oozed between his fingers and dripped to the floor.

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Two Gallants by James Joyce

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Every Writer

The grey warm evening of August had descended upon the city and a mild warm air, a memory of summer, circulated in the streets.

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