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A man, Ethan Armstrong, dies in the 1970's and is sent back to his hometown a century earlier to change history. The story is told from two points-of-view: Ethan's son, Jesse Armstrong (nine years old) in 1977, and a very distant uncle, Samuel Armstrong (nine years old) a century earlier. In the opening chapter, Jesse is six, and the year is 1974. Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks! - Corra

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This is part one of two parts. Eventually, it will probably be the first chapter of a book I'm working on, but for now, I'm putting it under the novel category, so the two parts will stay together for easier access. I'll probably get around to writing the second part and posting it within a few days, but then again, you guys know how lazy I am, so don't hold your breath.

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Synopsis - In Celia Reynolds eyes, life is perfect. She has a wonderful loving family including a sister that is her best friend. Her career is skyrocketing and she has more male admirers than she can keep up with. Then, her world is shattered when her sister Gabi takes her own life. As she questions her sister’s suicide and peels back the layers of her ideal life, she realizes that life is not perfect nor is it meant to be. Her journey of self discovery takes her from an elegant 20th floor apartment in New York City to Washington, DC and the Islands of South Carolina. Along the way she learns a family secret that forces her to see her self and her sister in a different light - all with help from some unlikely sources - an orangutan named Nikkee and a Voodoo Priestess named Mira. *** Requests - All I can ask for is honest feedback. Give it to me straight ; ).

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A re-write based on the excellent feedback I received. I'm considering submitting this for publication, although I have no idea what magazines would take this type of work. So, any feedback you have would be great. I'm sure there are still some typos -- I never seem to be able to get them all, no matter how much I look. A couple of specific questions I have are: do "dad" and "mom" need to be capitalized? Can I quote song lyrics without infringing copyright? Thanks in advance for your help.

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Young brother and sister have been abandoned by their father and their mother is in prison. The kids live with their grandparents but long to have a "normal" family like their friends. When they pray for their pain to be healed they get an answer from Heaven, but not the answer they were expecting.

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This is just an observation of a picture of my son,his wife and my grandson. Her gaze is hypnotic and you just want to know what she is thinking. Just want feedback on how it reads, is it clear, am I doing any better with punctuation!!!

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This is a quick piece that I fired off after a really transendant baseball game the other day and I would love any and all feedback from others.

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PAUL WEEKES knows all about poverty, after a harsh childhood spent raising both himself and his younger cousin Mark, who refuses to grow up. He now runs a farm on the island of Xantrope, cultivating ground provisions and marijuana for export, because he refuses to risk a return to the poverty of his past. Things get complicated when the corrupt police officer who facilitates Paul decides he wants a bigger cut of the illicit business. Worse, Mark is involved in a murder and a hit-and-run accident involving the police officer’s niece. Paul has his hands full coping with danger from Mark’s associates, orchestrated attempts to hijack his goods, keeping himself alive and pursing a romantic interest. ******For want of somewhere else to put this, I've termed it Other. It can best be described as Romantic Suspense.

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We (my co-creator and I) would be delighted to hear anything feedback you think could help us improve this work. I am especially interested to know if it keeps you wanting to read more. This is a working title and we would also love to have any suggestions on that. Thank you for taking the time to read this! We really appreciate that! We look forward to hearing from you!

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Resubmitted after rewriting a poem about sisters who started out like twins but separated traveling down different roads of life.

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my story begins in thracia 44AD during the thracian/roman wars. it describes early thracian life focusing om the thracian leader Hermious and his family. Future chapters will make a connection with the present day via a school teacher called Olivia. it follows her on a journey of discovery to bulgaria were she understands the meaning behind the gold bracelet she wears. she falls in love with a bulgarian archeologist and together they discover both her past and her possible future.

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Fifty years can change many things including sisters.

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In October, 1951, we meet five year old Louise Stokes, a product of a very dysfunctional family comprised of an alcoholic, abusive father, a mother who is basically a doormat, and a sister, older by fifteen months who is sometimes protector, sometimes nemesis. Just before Louise's tenth birthday, her parents, Riley and JoEllen, leave her and her sister, Christine, in the care of their grandmother while they go to Chicago to escape the scandal caused by her father's illicit affair. Louise settles into a quieter way of life, but when the school year ends, she is transplanted once again, reunited with her parents. As a teenager, Louise meets an older man and begins a relationship with him. When she finds herself pregnant, she must make a choice. Will she have the baby and give it up for adoption, have an illegal abortion, or marry the man responsible and try to have a normal life?

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"Mrs. Brown's Cat" is my first story, written in the 1970's. It is characteristic of my beginning writing skills--or lack of them. Several months ago, I edited the story, taking out a third of it, mostly in the beginning, during Kevins first trip into the past. I don't know if it would fly in today's market. Make suggestion if you think it would, and where to send it.

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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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Beautiful, talented, and about to inherit – Why is Sarah’s heart in turmoil...? Sarah Miller, the new darling of the Chamber Music Society, the protégée cellist of their in-house Quartet, receives rave reviews for her first series of concerts. She has just buckled her last term at New York’s prestigious music academy of Julliard when a hit-and-run driver strikes her down and disrupts her plans. Luckily unscathed, engagements still need postponing until proper exercises can restore agility and full mobility to her bruised wrist. While the melody is interrupted, Sarah meets up with the formidable Spinner brothers. The younger Mark, handsome and charming, sweeps her off her feet. The elder Julian, black sheep, black belted, and daunting black mood enjoys badgering and humiliating her. Her wrist recovered, playing music again, Sarah wonders which exercises will mend a bruised ego and an aching heart. ...Perhaps it’s because she is unworldly, unsophisticated – an orphan raised by tutors and nannies who ran to the bright lights of New York City...only to slam into the dark heart of Julian Spinner.

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One summer, Granny decided to become a stripper.

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The main character began as JOSEPH HIGHLANDER. PAMELA MYLAR, a childhood girl friend heard about a helicopter being bomb with him, wife, CARRIE and two close friends, BEN and BECKY TRENT. Two years later, she learned he wasn't the fourth victim in the bombing. She visited the institute. ROBERT DAEMON is a faithful friend and Joseph's lawyer and JANICE is Robert's wife. Joseph and Pamela look different. The FBI give them a new identity as FRANK and TAMMY JACKSON. LAUREL, Joseph's daughter and JIMMY HIGHLANDER, a son-in-law and also Joseph's adopted son, challenged Frank's take-over of their father's institute.

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My grandmother often surprised the family with her adventures. Her is one of them.

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This is my first attempt at a novel and I am certainly open to any criticism. The novel begins in January 1924 a little less than 60 years after the Civil war and five years before the Great Depression. The main character is getting married today. She describes her home, her life to this date in some of her mannerisms and dialog because she is expecting to take on a totally new life after the wedding vows. She breaks Southern Tradition is sort of a feminist. There is an element of super natural in each chapter. It is so subtle until it may not be apparent until much later in the book.

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I was told by my youngest that he was scared of monsters and I told him that monsters don't exist. I gave his concerns a bit of thought and I had to question what I had told him. Monsters don't exist, or do they?

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Three-year-old Emma Jenkins is awakened early one morning by a fire in her home.

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I don't know how to do this without giving too much away. A man loses everything, including his faith in God. His sister is there, never waning, to help him. His life changes and if you believe him...so could yours. There, how's that for a hook.

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This is the sequel to The Chandler Mirror. It follows book one almost to the day it left off. If you haven't read the first book, you may be confused by who these people are and what's going on. However, I'm trying to incorparate as much detail as I can in the early chapters here.

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I thought I would write a little more serious this time. I put more thought and time into this one. I hope you like it.

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In all its beauty lies magic, or is it something more sinister than darkness? Is it evil? When a strange stone, which was buried 137 years ago in Washington, Missouri, surfaces in Jason Hollister’s hands, everything changes. McKenzie Topelo Jason’s friend from childhood vanishes, and a strange imposture suddenly appears out of nowhere claiming to be her, but Jason isn’t fooled, he knows the stone is responsible and he’s determined to find a way to become a prisoner of the same stone, to save McKenzie and bring her home. This is the begining of another book. All comments are welcomed. Thanks, L.A.Thunder :)

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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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“Six children are about to embark on a journey of a lifetime, and what they learn about their heritage, will be so powerful it’ll change their life forever.” This book is best described as: THE LORD OF THE RINGS, meets, STAND BY ME, meets, THE WIZARD OF OZ. In CULVER’S TREASURE, all six children share one common bond, which is their mother’s have been best friends since birth, so the six of them have always had each other, but never asked why, until now. CULVER'S TREASURE has already been critiqued, and edited by a professional editing company. I also passed out the first three chapter's of the book to the general public for feedback. I'm always looking for feedback on everything I write because it helps me become a stronger writer. Please let me know if you think the beginning of the book is catchy, and if you like it and why, or if you don't care for it, and why.

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The Guardian of Eden is the story of a teenager, Garrett, and his twelve year old sister, Eden. After years of abuse from their mother and her boyfriends they finally achieve what seems like a happy life. Their mother has married a good man, Garrett has a beautiful girlfriend, and both he and his sister attend a prestigious private school. But tragedy lurks beneath the surface as Garrett discovers that the abuse to his little sister goes beyond what he ever imagined. His overwhelming love for his sister and desire to protect her lead him to commit a murder that could destroy them all.

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An excerpt from my life.

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This is a story about the relationship between tragedy and necessity, and the changes we make to keep breathing.

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Chris began to question the wisdom of this trip. The familiar crunching sound of tires on the gravel driveway gave away her surprise arrival. She had planned to arrive undetected, take a look around at her former life, and if necessary, leave undetected. As she pulled up to the once-white, house with the slanted front porch and broken screen door, she was at once joyfully nostalgic and severely repulsed. Before Chris could turn off the engine and step out onto the gravel and oil driveway, Ma was already waving from the window in the big bedroom upstairs. Chris shook her head when she notice Ma wearing the same faded red, pansy-printed house dress she was wearing exactly one year before on Easter Sunday and likely every other Sunday for the last thirty years or more. The hem of this dress must have been re-sewn by Ma’s plump hands a hundred times or more and the buttons were a mere rumor, replaced by multi-colored diaper pins. Even without seeing it now, Chris could describe each frayed piece of the fabric, not only because she seen it in her mind whenever she pictured Ma, but because she’d spent so much time as a child, hiding from the world on underneath it. They met inside the house, at the bottom of the stairs and greeted one another the way they always had. No “I love you,” or “good to see you.” No touching moment and definitely no embracing, just right to the business at hand – avoidance. “Lawd chile, I ain’t know who dat was pullin’ in my driveway all fast.” Ma said, barely stopping at the foot of the staircase. “Uhn, uhn, uhn. What you doin’ wit’ ya hair now?” “All that money, - cant you pay somebody to do something with that hair?” Chris sighed. “It’s called the natural look Ma, and I did pay somebody to do this.” Uhn, we’ll you done thrown dat money away. Look like a natural mess to me. I’ put a pressin comb on it fo’ ya fo’ free.” Ma laughed. “Lawd have mercy, now I got to go upstairs an’ put some clean sheets on dat bed. Go on out back and say somethin’ to Dad.” Chris walked through the old house, through the dog’s room on the back porch and out into the back yard where Dad sat atop his ancient, red, riding mower, mowing and drinking what was almost surely corn liquor, wrapped in a brown paper bag. “Hey there, Lil Bit, what you doin’ here? Dad slurred. “You done drove all the way from New York City to help me cut all this grass.” All morning, Chris sat in the kitchen with Ma snapping peas, peeling potatoes and soaking greens. “You listen here girl, now I ain’t gonna have none of that mess you pull last year at my Easter table, you hear me?” Ma warned. “What’s past is past.” “Now, ya Mama an’ them comin.’” “Again, Ma, she is not my Mama” Chris said. “Well, she carried ya ‘round in her fo’ nine mont’s di’nt she?” Ma exclaimed. Chris started, “Ma, but she never did nothing for me….” At this, Chris was immediately shocked by her improper language, and how easily it came back to her. “She my daughter, and yo’ mama, an’ this is my house and I say she’ comin’ here to have Easter dinner wit’ us, now you just keep ya mouth shut if ya aint got nothing nice to say, hear.” ‘Ma, if she brings him again, I can’t sit at the table and act like everything is ok.” Chris explained. Ma fidgeted. “Don’t you say it.” Suddenly, Chris felt possessed. “What, Ma, that he raped me and my Mama was too high to do anything?” Ma looked around for something to hold on to and settled on a bag of flour on the. Ma said, “Don’t ya talk with dat nasty mouth in my house girl, now, I jus’ ain’t gon’ have it.” Brushing flour off her dress, Ma quietly demanded, “Now make yourself useful and go set the table.”

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FAITH, COURAGE, AND DETERMINATION The Story of Baby Aidan You never realize how important and precious life can be. Until someone you love and care about gets Hodgkin’s disease. This story is about my daughter Amanda and her miracle baby son, Aidan Joseph.

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After reading so much good poety on this web site, I decided to finish a poem I began last December. This is my firs and hopefully it will not be my last. This is my life in a nutshell, er., I mean a poem.

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In the semi-small town of Cedar Creek, some people don’t care to lock their doors, even though the woods hold secrets and the children are terrified to venture into them. The warm sense of security is shattered for Majesty Alistair, a feisty but grief-stricken teen, when she uncovers a mass murder plot deep in the thick. She struggles to find and defeat the would-be-killers before they act, but they have an agenda far bigger than she ever assumed. Violence rocks the town, leaving residents reeling and drawing Majesty into the middle of it all. With danger always pressing, police seemingly getting nowhere and those closest to her looking guilty, she continues hunting and charges into an evil web, but the truth and her actions threaten to haunt her forever, especially since she’s left with blood on her hands, the blood of someone she loves.

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What makes a human, human? Are heroes born, bred, or created?

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J.D. discovers Henry is more than a hired hand. The witch protects. An innocent girl is murdered. The county balance is gone. The end is near.

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This is the first of i think three parts. I am trying to figure how to break it up. The story is about a rural County divided into four sections. The events in this particular part of the story set up the rest of the story. There is a lot of meanness with ignorance and isolation. Please, see for yourself.

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Visiting my daughter's family, Rabbi husband and twin boys, soon after my conversion to Judaism, I found the emotional and visceral validation of my choice.

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Sometimes, it takes a child's faith to get an answer from God. Sometimes, it takes a child's love to go around the world. Sometimes, It takes a child's heart to bring peace. Sometimes, it takes one moment in time to change people's hearts. Sometimes, it takes a mustard seed to change the mountains of the world.

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In which a rat named Hamlet makes Christmas Day one the famil will never forget !

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I was moved to write this entry in my blog after I learned about Steve Irwin, Croc Hunter, and his untimely death.

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