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SOMETHING HAS ARRIVED IN A QUIET LAKE BORDERING THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES, SOMETHING BIG!

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A getaway weekend. and a trip to historic Saratoga left me with feelings I wanted to record. ** For some reason this post always KEEPS displaying without paragraph breaks. I keep editing it and it never retains the paragraph breaks. I apologize for the eye sore.

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Here is a fun story written for third graders on up, Enjoy

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NOT YOUR USUAL DINNER AT EIGHT

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Any type of feed back helpful.

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A piece on searching for that perfect word.

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The book is the fictionalized story of the marriage, murder, and aftermath, of a real life Earl and his Countess, that happened in London in the seventies. I took the liberty of writing out the story of their lives. He was a man who had everything, as far as looks, lineage, connections, but was hampered by being a compulsive gambler, and wife abuser. She was in her turn emotionallly troubled, obsessed by her husband, and the failure of those in the class she had married into to accept her. I would like to know if its readable, well written, please all input is welceome, and I thank you in advance for it.

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An odd 'ting, ting, ting' coming through the woods draws a passerby to have a closer look at an abandoned homestead. A woman's brooch causes the reader to say, "Hmmmmm."

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This is really more for a middle grade audience and is a humorous tale. It's about one of those staple teen protagonists, Abbie (who happens to have an funny bodily issue), who is tired of being picked on by the school biatch, Dylan, and decides to give her a taste of her own medicine. I wrote this for fun and I hope you like it. Feel free to comment at will. As any writer should, I can take it.

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This is an autobiographical account of the effects of childhood sexual abuse on an adult survivor. The story is raw, and some details may be disturbing, but they are necessary. I normally do not write autobio pieces, so this story is very personal for me. I want feedback. I want to know how it makes the reader feels. My goal is for the reader to develop some understanding of the pain that abuse inflicts on the victim decades after the attack. I intentionally kept the story narrowly focused. It is purposely short and direct to make an emotional impact. It's impossible to examine the all the effects of such a crime on one's spirit, family, career, faith, and outlook of life. The story is not meant to be uplifting or inspirational. It's simply an account of a tragedy, and an unexpected consequence I've experienced.

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A reporter, recently relocated from New York to Wilmington, North Carolina, and researching the fact that Willie Mosconi once played pool in a local bar, comes across a ghost story about three patrons who died in a fire at the Hotel Orton in 1949 and reportedly still haunt the bar (now called Orton's) that was in its basement. He discovers, though, that newspaper reports on the fire show no indication of any deaths in the fire and wonders about the validity of the ghost story. Shooting pool at Orton's one night, the reporter is physically approached by the Ghost of the Hotel Orton, who proceeds to tell him the story of what really happened that night, asking the reporter to more or less set the record straight.

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A lame attempt at literary fiction - all input as to its success in engaging a reader appreciated.

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Buck Zephyr adventures. Buck is a Marine who lost his leg in Afghanistan. He is crude, manly and loves himself. The story is about how he falls in love and changes. The beginning has to be crude to see the change.

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The town bully get his just deserts in a small mid-western town when he goes one step to far.

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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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Not sure what to do with this, probably works better as a short story, but decided to try it as a poem. I would appreciate any helpful feedback. It needs lots of tweaking.

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A few artifacts from the first words era of my daughters Clarissa and Bianca.

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Mark Twain said how Americans tell a story is as important as the story they tell. This is a modern-day fable that I have tightened since last posting and edited in response to comments from this site and others. I'm reading it at an Open Mic Friday at the College, and I'm going to try to submit it to multiple publications this weekend. Your feedback is welcome.

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

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This is one of my few attempts at flash fiction. It looks at an emotion without naming the emotion.

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