Tag: writing
member name: JOHN BECK
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November 07, 2009 09:14 AM EST --
My obsession for this prompt is one of my telescopes, a 1976 Tele Vue Renaissance 4 inch brass refractor. It’s the Halley’s comet commemorative model.
“I don’t . . .
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October 27, 2009 12:39 AM EDT --
" This week's prompt is also a bit different. We're going to take Gatherland into a different place. There is no internet, no cell phones, no texting and no cars. We will exist . . .
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October 26, 2009 10:49 PM EDT --
Utopia?
She wonders
Since her death
Could this really be
Heaven?
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November 26, 2009 06:49 AM EST --
My son and daughter-in-law are hosting today. Barbara has prepared some vegetable dishes and I thought I would make two cold soups: a roasted red pepper soup with guacamole salsa and a zucchini . . .
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November 02, 2009 08:09 AM EST --
The beaver builds his dam and lodge
While robin tends her nest
The badger claims his earthly den
While bees have hives for rest.
An aerie is the lofty home
Of . . .
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September 28, 2009 07:20 PM EDT --
William Safire has died, leaving us with his tongue in cheek rules for writing:
Remember to never split an infinitive.
The passive voice should never be used.
Do not put statements . . .
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August 21, 2009 08:51 PM EDT --
Now that Warren Adler’s contest is over, I’m contemplating posting my short story, under the title “Decision”, on Gather. I suspect that the story line is not compelling . . .
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October 13, 2009 05:10 PM EDT --
1. Write a short piece with Halloween as the centerpiece. It can be poetry, fiction, essay or other prose.
2. Incorporate into it recollections of your childhood memories . . .
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October 16, 2009 08:16 AM EDT --
Where’s Wally?
“Have you seen Wally?”
“The last I saw him, he was in Mrs. Medusa’s front yard, but he was a mess and he didn’t smell very . . .
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August 21, 2009 09:31 PM EDT --
Ned Olson sang the old Welch hymn in his cherubic soprano voice, bringing tears to the eyes of the largely elderly congregation. He could not know that in twelve years he would be facing a . . .
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October 19, 2009 06:47 PM EDT --
Version II.
“It was on Halloween night in 1948. I remember because it was the year we celebrated Wisconsin’s Statehood Centennial. And I’ve come back on Halloween every . . .
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November 18, 2009 06:58 PM EST --
I am dead serious , no point in asking me
Nothing’s more dangerous than such a trampoline
That WalMart Superstore coupon will never be
Used ‘cause it’s torn . . .
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October 08, 2009 10:35 PM EDT --
He felt the “pop” as his 28 foot flat parachute opened and he experienced the expected opening shock.
Although his ‘chute was open and he was gently falling toward the desert, . . .
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