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Entries from July 2008

Flash Fiction Series by Marco Kaufman: Continental Divide

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Authors, Flash Fiction Series by Marco Kaufman, Marco Kaufman, Series

James had just moved to the suburbs from the city after living downtown for eight years. It was only then that he was mugged in front of a convenience store only a few blocks from his apartment building. The men that mugged him were black and had, James figured, come from the neighborhood across the [...]

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Sunday Halleluiahs

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Authors, Brenda Moguez, Featured Short Story

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Monday Market: 2008.07.28

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Monday Market

Strange Horizons Fiction Department: Stories We’ve Seen Too Often
For example: “This list is part of the submission guidelines for Strange Horizons, an online speculative fiction magazine.” Please don’t describe this as …
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submissions. Guidelines for Fiction Submissions. Identity Theory publishes fiction from new and up-and-coming writers, with special attention [...]

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One Real Story Poetry Contest: Honorable Mention

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Authors, Contests, Durlabh Singh, One Real Story Poetry Contest, Poetry

THE MOON.
The moon
Oh catch the moon
Put a noose in its nose
Bring it back to harness
The icy wilderness of the noon
Sprinkle it with flowered dew.
Catch it before it runs
To penumbra of sun hide itself
Oh run and run to recover
From suffocation of grief & bart
Stiffen its dust with tears
Or the ceremonial flood
Of the tidings of [...]

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Weekly Creative Writing Tip: Setting from Writer Keith Gray

July 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Creative Writing Tips, Series, Tips from Writer Keith Gray

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Flash Fiction Prompt #27

July 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Flash Fiction Prompts

Use the following to write your own piece of flash fiction:
Out of his wallet he handed me a colour photograph.
The edges dog eared, the white border greying, the surface cracked.
A girl stood in front of a liquor store.
She was wearing a long, blood red skirt. Full and flounced around her slim shins.
I knew by the [...]

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Flash Fiction Series by Marco Kaufman: The Ugly Guy

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Authors, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Series by Marco Kaufman, Marco Kaufman, Series

Nancy was stuck with the ugly guy while her friend was somewhere behind the shopping center screwing his better-looking friend, Stuart. They didn’t say much to each other while they waited for the other two; instead they smoked cigarettes and listened to the radio that the ugly guy had been carrying with him when they [...]

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Things The Grandchildren Should Know

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Authors, Elford Alley, Featured Short Story

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Editor’s Note: Minor Changes

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Editor's Notes, One Real Story Polls

Notice a difference? Made a few changes to the look of One Real Story. Hey I’m not a developer and to be quite honest, I don’t really know a stick of php. But I think it looks pretty good no matter.

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