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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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Open Hands by Angela Townsend

Posted on November 11, 2023November 26, 2023 by Every Writer

They did not give me money.

There was never a version in which they were going to give me money.

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The Soldier Who Loved Dogs

Posted on March 8, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

“I am not a warring man.” Igor watched the old man lead a German Shepherd through the rubble which Berlin had become.

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Raccoons, a story by R. Bremner

Posted on January 12, 2014October 28, 2017 by Every Writer

On those frigid nights, we’d pop up from the subway wind tunnel into the blustery city street, padding past the lamplit haze, chuckling, our blood humming, eager for the ales

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The Blind Men and the Elephant by James Baldwin

Posted on July 20, 2010August 9, 2017 by Every Writer

The Blind Men and the Elephant by James Baldwin (1841-1925)   There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged from the people who passed. They had often heard of el-e-phants, but they had never seen one; for, being blind, how could they? It so happened one morning that…

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