Tag: non fiction
group name: themeltingpot
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March 10, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I just got done reading "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman. A published writer stuck on a juvenile delinquent character in a book he is writing approaches a friend that teaches writing . . . more
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June 26, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
There was once an eight year old girl who wasn't pretty. She wore thick glasses so heavy they rubbed sores on her nose where they sat. The other kids called her four eyes. She had long, stringy red . . . more
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August 22, 2007 12:27 AM EDT --
My Hero and I thought we had finally reached the end, a conclusion. As we looked at each other in silence, waiting for our bankruptcy attorney to finish talking to that other attorney, we both seemed to . . . more
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October 05, 2008 05:50 PM EDT --
When I am reading, I always get excited upon reaching the last 100 pages of the novel. It's like I know I am in the home stretch. Even though I chain-read books one after the other, I always feel . . . more
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August 16, 2008 10:58 AM EDT --
Author Samara O'Shea's book, "Note to Self, On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits," is a mixed bag of genre. It is a how-to book and a self-help book. . . . more
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September 20, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
I know that you remember. You can still feel the first warm rush of anticipation and ultimate satisfaction of that first encounter, the first time you met your love match. Any artist, worth the name, can . . . more
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May 09, 2008 02:03 PM EDT --
It stuck to me like barbaric barnacle on a barge's bilge or golden honey on fidgety fingers. Pulling away only made it better, so I continued my epic struggle. To remove my thongs would be goofy at . . . more
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August 03, 2008 02:58 PM EDT --
Once a girl who carefully tip-toed through swamps to catch beautiful frogs, who washed her face clean before a college date, and only shaved her legs for weddings, I now sell document management solutions. . . . more
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October 27, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
Written non-stop from 5:05 p.m. to 5:25 p.m. (AKA Shotgun Fiction) No editing allowed.
My mother carries a box of white zinfandel to the bathtub after the five-o-clock news and soaks in steaming hot . . . more
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March 15, 2007 06:37 AM EDT --
Welcome to the newest SHINE SHOWCASE!
Each week I select a "creative" member of our group to showcase on our site by making them a "Feature". This means that one . . . more
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March 24, 2007 04:20 PM EDT --
THE RULES:
Each player of this game starts with the 6 weird things about him/herself.
People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly.
In the . . . more
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July 30, 2008 11:26 PM EDT --
On the Karfi ferry from Washington Island to Rock Island, the lake breeze tried to wash our faces clean, attempting to brush away all the woes, stress, hurt, and fear from our foreheads. . . . more
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April 01, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
Welcome to the newest SHINE SHOWCASE!
Each week (or so... ) I select another "creative" member of our group to showcase on our site by making them a "Feature". . . . more
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May 08, 2007 04:02 PM EDT --
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett? It's a profoundly moving memoir about friendship, as well as an examination of the writing life as lived by these two friends. ***** Five Stars!
The Added . . . more
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April 16, 2007 07:43 AM EDT --
My Dear Creatives,
Welcome to a new week and another opportunity to SHINE!
The Northeast has been deluged with storms. At points over the weekend it seemed as if our roof was . . . more
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July 24, 2008 08:49 AM EDT --
The Distance
At last, she decided to mosaic her bedroom floor with his letters. They had been enabling her past. A past which she wanted to rob of the form and the structure. She wished she . . . more
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February 27, 2007 07:03 AM EST --
Essentially because I’m growing a mustache people are finally seeing a resemblance between my sons and me. Middle age, whatever that means anymore, has crept up on me so quickly. My beautiful, African . . . more
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March 31, 2007 09:10 PM EDT --
SHINE! Flash Literature, Poetry, Art and Photography Newsletter
April 1, 2007
My Dear Creatives!
The April issue is online. . . . more
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March 16, 2007 04:06 PM EDT --
A poem a day,
Keeps rust away
And makes your neurons gay.
(Satis Shroff)
Satis Shroff is a writer & poet based in Freiburg (poems, fiction, non-fiction) and has been writing, editing . . . more
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March 15, 2007 08:10 AM EDT --
Hello There You Creative Thinker You!
What the heck is SHINE!? SHINE! is where you may place your articles, poetry, art, photos. It's a different kind of site because of two things: . . . more
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