Tag: fiction
group name: satisshroff
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November 02, 2007 07:08 AM EDT --
Sister Scholastica sipped the wine from the glass on the refectory table. Tongue tipped; felt the juice; remembered past and time; the taste rinsed down. Held the glass; peered at the distorted images; . . .
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September 21, 2007 08:00 AM EDT --
Would you rather I didn't see? Mae said, standing beside Brand who stood poised holding a gun at Claxton's head. Claxton was sitting in a chair bound by ropes around his arms. Brand‘s hand was . . .
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October 05, 2007 07:03 AM EDT --
The house seemed the same. The trees surrounding were larger; spread more wildly. Sophia stood; gazed at the door that had been painted black; seemed like a gate to some hell of her childhood. This . . .
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September 29, 2007 06:18 PM EDT --
Walter's gaze settled on the playing children as he rocked in his porch chair, sipping lemonade. They know nothing of Before, he mused, and wondered if that was a good thing.
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November 04, 2007 02:06 PM EST --
You push your penny in the slot; close it against the crowd outside the door. Why there is always a queue in the ladies lavatory, you have often mused, as you do now, as you disrobe, sit, and stare . . .
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October 16, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
Periodically, Ernie Johnson posts information on writing contests. One of his sources is “Funds for Writers.” Ernie has some current information and a link to these contests at CONTESTS from . . .
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October 25, 2007 12:30 AM EDT --
I'd like to blame my lateness in getting the selection made on jet-lag, but I think I just got side-tracked and off routine. That's what happens when I have too much time between . . .
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April 21, 2008 10:35 AM EDT --
Well, after a few weeks when I didn't feel like choosing an installment, I got a message of concern from Tracey W. I haven't posted much of anything for about a month, and it's hard . . .
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October 15, 2007 09:07 AM EDT --
"Mom do you love me? "Little Sara asked Riya with tears in her eyes.
Riya looked at her perplexed, "yes little angel, mama loves you .why this question?"
"Simran told . . .
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November 12, 2007 04:14 AM EST --
Sister Scholastica left the refectory after lunch; made her way to the grounds for the twice-daily recreation period. She had been one of the twelve nuns to be chosen to have their feet washed by the . . .
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November 13, 2007 04:35 AM EST --
Sister Scholastica waited in the cloister with the others nuns. The mass in church was soon to begin. She looked briefly into the cloister garth; caught a sight of the Spring flowers in the flowerbeds; . . .
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September 29, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
Winston hesitated. Suncast shadows sketched a new black and white landscape in the snow, different after each big wind. The shivering reflex began even before he stepped . . .
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August 09, 2007 10:38 PM EDT --
Kelly's smelled. A crackling eulogy of oak logs wafted from a wide fireplace through the dark paneled barroom where two decades of entrenched beer and cigarette odors were holding their own against . . .
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November 18, 2007 09:48 PM EST --
I really hate it when I do this--I closed this window and completely lost my article. I had written about both entries, how they were alike in some ways, and very different in others, and . . .
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October 19, 2007 06:20 PM EDT --
I was sitting in the hammock tossing back a brew the day the snail rebellion began.
The snails were almost to my trailer stairs before I noticed . . .
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September 04, 2007 02:46 AM EDT --
Was that them again? Lucy couldn’t decide. It may just be the mice, she thought. She closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. The sounds seemed like them; the words seemed like theirs. She gripped her hands . . .
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October 09, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
Wow, you two ladies do know how to make me work! In the end, there were just a couple of tiny inconsistencies that tipped the scale to Gillian N. Congratulations! Tracey, I loved yours,too, . . .
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November 05, 2007 06:24 PM EST --
Congratulations Tracey; although I know you didn't want to win by default, there were no other entries this time, and you did a great job tying it all up. You win the right to start . . .
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December 24, 2008 10:19 AM EST --
Tracey's was the only entry this week--so she was the obvious choice (but as usual, a good one). I've had promises that some of the rest of you will put in an entry--maybe after the . . .
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October 04, 2009 07:08 PM EDT --
Every November for the last eight years I've participated in NaNoWriMo . This November will be no different for me.
I had a great plot come to me while I was journaling a few weeks ago and I'm going . . .
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