Tag: arts
group name: junkdrawer
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March 20, 2008 10:57 AM EDT --
Happy Easter to my Gather writing friends who celebrate the holiday. Happy Spring to those who don't.
For today's writing essential, please submit stories/articles/poems, etc. on how you . . .
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May 20, 2008 09:38 PM EDT --
We faced unpredictable odds. Turmoil raged from within his family. His father was a tyrant and not quite stable, but he controlled it all......the business, the family, their money.
I had three . . .
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April 09, 2008 08:27 PM EDT --
I don't write a lot of fiction. I found this in an old file today....it was probably written about ten years ago.
Literary suicide has claimed yet another victim. Plagiarism . . .
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May 09, 2008 01:40 AM EDT --
I walked as far around the perimeter as the public was allowed. I just knew I'd find something to commemorate the lives lost here. I know plans for a memorial are in the making, but in the meantime . . .
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May 09, 2008 08:54 AM EDT --
It's been a lot of years since I've walked the streets of NYC at 1AM. Hmmmm. Perhaps that should be worded a little differently! Still.....at just a little before 1 this morning I returned to . . .
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May 27, 2008 11:35 PM EDT --
How can I touch his heart?
I penetrate the surface with compassion, yet I'm burned along the edges for my efforts.
Manipulation.
Control.
Sociopath?
I see the lies that . . .
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April 21, 2008 05:49 AM EDT --
What is the definition of true love? Romance buffs will bore you with tales of flowers and chocolates, champagne toasts on moonlit nights, greeting cards slipped into briefcases. Lovestruck . . .
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June 27, 2008 10:07 PM EDT --
We hear about it on TV and we read about it on the Internet. Politicians use it as a major political platform and make endless promises about its improvement. It floats around in the back of our minds . . .
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June 29, 2008 11:45 PM EDT --
This morning started out with a promise from the "Wound Care" people that one of their doctors would be in to check on my husband. It's 11:33 PM now and unless they make very late night . . .
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June 30, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
Gone are the days that doctors and nurses let patients and their families know what's actually going on with regard to their healthcare. My husband has been hospitalized since Friday (for those who . . .
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April 02, 2008 11:19 AM EDT --
Are you ready and willing to go that extra mile? Or are you married to the words you've written and completely inflexible? I guarantee an editor will look more favorably upon those falling . . .
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April 28, 2008 09:26 AM EDT --
This week I have to drive to my hometown in Maine and attend a funeral. My former mother-in-law (my ex's mother) passed away this weekend. She was 79. She was very good to me throughout our years . . .
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May 13, 2008 11:35 AM EDT --
Issue #32
Greetings, Gather writers, and welcome to this issue of Freelancing for Pleasure and Profit.
When prospective freelancers contact me with questions, they seem to fall into . . .
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June 18, 2008 11:05 AM EDT --
When driving up the steep streets of Cincinnati's Mt. Adams neighborhood, one feels as though they've traveled a world away from the city of Cincinnati, when in fact the drive from downtown takes . . .
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July 05, 2008 09:12 PM EDT --
The Pine Tree Restaurant was a landmark in Bangor, Maine for over forty years. Located in the heart of downtown, and adjacent to the Greyhound Bus station, it served regulars and transients from . . .
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July 13, 2008 11:37 AM EDT --
It's best described as a love-hate relationship. In fact, it's turbulent throughout most of its existence. Yet once the turbulence allows life to resume its smooth . . .
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June 02, 2008 12:01 AM EDT --
Wasn't there a Gidget movie by that or a similar name? I think I'm remembering correctly, but then again I'm older now. That means my mind tends to transpose things now and then. Take . . .
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June 17, 2008 09:44 AM EDT --
I love road trips........at least the part of the trip that takes you to your destination. The drive home is never as much fun. It's not that going home has no merits.....it really does. But driving . . .
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June 28, 2008 10:35 PM EDT --
It didn't freeze over today, but hell wasn't as hot as it was yesterday, in day two of my poor husband's saga of being a patient at the hospital in our city. Today found us still shaking . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:03 AM EDT --
"I love you for your pink Cadillac
Crushed velvet seats
Riding in the back, oozing down the street
Waving to the girls
Feeling out of sight
Spending all my money on a Saturday night
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