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Sam Tabor is a bright child with a promising future, but when her alcoholic mother gets a new boyfriend, her world starts to fall apart piece by piece. Sam hits the streets and stumbles into The Mercury Diner, where she’s told by a kind waitress to seek out a man by the name of Bruno, who can be found in The Jungle. After years in The Jungle, Bruno’s business partner calls in a debt. Sam’s world crumbles again, but a man with multiple identities intercedes on her behalf, and believes the young girl will be safeguarded in a maximum security prison. Out of jail, Sam is offered a safe place to live, but is she really freed from her past, and danger?

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Three-year-old Jeffrey focuses on an alarming abundance of ketchup while his life crumbles around him.

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I have written many poems that use historic and mythical figures to express human themes. This classical story of Medea who murdered her children focuses on a daughter who knows her fate and waits. I welcome all crits but especially whether it is accessible and possible to engage with?

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Memories of the freedom I had as a child on my grandfather's farm that children today will never know.

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An embellished memoir about my childhood. I had an exciting childhood and will be writing a few short stories about it. This is my first short story so please feel free to let me know what you like, don't like and I will gladly take any suggested improvements. Thank you.

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Henry has a special friend- the best kind of friend. Henry's friend is loyal, strong, and absolutely invisible. This is flash fiction according to a standard set at 1000 words. Any feedback is welcome. This is actually an older piece that I just recently came across. I had forgotten how much I like this story.

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The adventures of a very shy preteen in 60's suburbia..... This is the first story I wrote that I learned to use my sense of humor, or maybe I should say, this is the first story I wrote that I finally found my true style!

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A short peice from a part of my life that no-one knew about, and still don't. I was always the perfectly happy child and friend. I am over it now and part of the reason i would like to become a psychologist. To be able to help people that are going through things that make them feel this way. This is a rough peice i have barly edited. I don't really know why i'm posting it. The book im currently reading is about a severe case of this and i felt the need to write mine down.

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SWEET WILLIAM AND ROSEMARY views the world from a child’s perspective, but with its own unique slant. A young girl raised on a literal interpretation of the Bible has her beliefs tested by a skeptical death-obsessed cousin who has been taught that religion is a hoax. He lures her into his morbid and progressively more dangerous "funeral games" and he shares his belief that his violent father has murdered his mother. Together the two conspire to learn the truth. It is a story about adaptation and survival and the evolution of a moral awareness beyond the strict religious code Izzy has been taught. In a climactic scene, she faces danger, even death, and learns the meaning of true courage.

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Back from vacation. My June 29 entry in the Frantic Friday Flash. Keyword: fragrant. Word limit: 350. All suggestions welcome any time...even after the deadline (sometimes my flashes have lives beyond the weekly contest).

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