glimpses shared by our authors
  • I know I could be a better writer. I have a reputation for being a good writer. I do like to start a lot of sentences with I though and ...
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  • Today I woke up thinking about Allison. Writing this makes me feel a little bit betrayed. I feel like every day I live my life just thinking about how it ...
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  • Winter's chill had just begun to embrace Brookshire as Fall began to change the trees to their pastel glory. Madison was sitting on her porch to her small home on ...
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  • "Jesus fucking Christ, Simon, you've been on that stupid fucking website for at least five hours today. Give it a rest?" "Never," he said. It was a joke. And yet, ...
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  • If Beth had spent another moment with Anderson, she would have forgiven him. A yawn stepped out of her mouth; pushing her jaws apart. The thought sobered her. 'How could ...
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  • Money is the measure of success. A very easy-to-measure measure. Why insist that one has to have love or family or friends, when there is money? In fact, if love ...
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  • I. A blank page. So simple. So frustrating. How does one fill up a page? Adjectives? Verbs? Nouns? Adverbs? Stories? Facts? Lies? Untruths? The mundane? The fantastical? Drama and comedy ...
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  • nest and moved it back and forth quickly. Dislodged and slumped on the tip of the angled shovel, the nest was free. I carried it behind him toward the trash ...
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  • today was so frustrating. Today was the first day that i could register for my classes for Spring Semester, except all of the classes that i need to take this ...
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  • I know what I want to do, I just don't know what it is. I want to live in southeast Asia. I want to join the Peace Corps. I want ...
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