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Revenge by Leanne Adler

Posted on April 27, 2012May 11, 2018 by Every Writer

Revenge by Leanne Adler Good lord, please start, Gloria thought as her eyes roamed the busy room and she registered the faces of the colleagues she knew, the ones she didn’t and the ones she’d rather not. Three of the latter category were perched on chairs at her table, sipping the coffee that tasted like…

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Frailty by Matt Bender

Posted on September 7, 2011August 8, 2017 by Every Writer

Frailty by Matt Bender The frailty in man is thinking that you can give your heart, your hard-earned life, to a woman and she will know how to take care of it. You were a victim of this, too, friend, when your woman left and you went home to hang yourself. When you told me…

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My Soul by Rumjhum Biswas

Posted on May 10, 2011October 23, 2017 by Every Writer

My Soul by Rumjhum Biswas My soul is going to walk out on me one of these days. I’m sure of it. That damn soul is going to walk out of me, and go some place else. It’s going to shrug me off the way we shrug off our rain coats, overcoats and Ulster coats….

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NELLY’S HOSPITAL by Louisa May Alcott

Posted on May 30, 2010August 9, 2017 by Every Writer

NELLY’S HOSPITAL by Louisa May Alcott Nelly sat beside her mother picking lint; but while her fingers flew, her eyes often looked wistfully out into the meadow, golden with buttercups, and bright with sunshine. Presently she said, rather bashfully, but very earnestly, “Mamma, I want to tell you a little plan I’ve made, if you’ll…

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