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My Submission to an Essay Contest

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Harvard Square commentaries, 1969 On January 10 I learned about an intriguing essay competition with a January 15 deadline. The call for entries had gone out in November, I think, but I just learned about it in January thanks to whatever Internet surfing I was doing. The rationale behind the contest, according to the three women running …

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Peaceful Guilt (A Short Story)

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I thought I would share a short story with you today. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Let me know what you think, feedback is always helpful to a writer. Andrew Johnson walks to his car and places a box in the trunk. He gets in the car and starts …

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Never Look Back

A friend of mine named Jim recently had an interesting experience while vacationing at the Oregon Coast. Debris from the Japanese tsunami continues to make its way across the ocean and all sorts of items float ashore. Jim tells me he’s seen plastic bottles with Japanese labels, tires and sports equipment. But early one morning …

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Conclusion: An Edsel And The Crown Jewels

Read Part One After his brush with death, Bud Holloway herded his family into Moby Dick—the enormous white Edsel that had nearly crushed him—and headed to Texas for a visit with his mama. Hollowhead later described what happened. As Bud drove through Albuquerque, he toyed with the radio and managed to tune into a radio station somewhere …

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Muted in silver

Rainbow colored canopies float weightlessly across the sky. A few pause in their flight, circling and hovering above us like multi-hued hummingbirds. It has happened. A playful invasion of umbrellas is taking place while humans below blink in amazement at the sight. What were they? From where did they come? An unfamiliar genesis of color is rapidly lifting the spirits of children …

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Help (100 Word Flash NonFiction)

Hello all, I hope all of you who celebrated Labor Day had a great weekend. Today I am sharing a 100 word flash fiction that won me an overall best award. I will be putting it in my book, Shirley’s Shorts and Flashes. I hope you enjoy it. It is a story from my long …

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