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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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This is a short story I wrote recently for a class. I would like to 'perfect' it, so any feedback would be appreciated.

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A pleasure-loving professional woman, Grace Savage, is shaken down to her boyshorts when she visits Shaker Village, a celibate community in the Granite State, and glimpses her personal future mired in a maiden state.

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Karen finds herself floating through life unhappy and discontent, though she can't figure out why. She has a job she loves and a boyfriend who adores her, but it's as though she has lost her ability to feel joy. When she meets a exciting man named Seth, he convinces her to buy a ticket to Ecuador and suddenly she feels as though she's awakened from a deep sleep. Half A World Away is about Karen's adventures in South America and her journey to discover herself. This story is for anybody who wants to travel, but just needs a little inspiration!

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On a snowy day in January 1985, Sanaz’ husband finally agrees to meet her to sign the divorce papers. Before any pen meets paper, he pulls out a gun, shoots her and then himself. When she survives and he does not, Sanaz faces both an end and a beginning. The novel proceeds with alternate passages: Sanaz’ teens up to this trauma, and the time of the shooting forward.

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I'd like to thank everyone for commenting on this piece; I've taken your advice (think I fixed everyting?) and here is the rewrite. Please let me know what else I can change or if I've forgotten anything (most likely I have). Thank you again! This is a true story about me. It's taken 11 yrs to write and has proven to be the toughest thing I've ever wrtten about, but that's really not saying much. In the essence of making sense, I've taken the liberty of messing with the time line a little. Please let me know what you think about this and be honest. Thanks for reading this!

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A reflection made last year. Now I'm six and thirty. Does that mak things better or worse?

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Okay, I'm getting back on track. Much of what is to come is already written... I just seem to be having a hard time with the weeks between Amarillo and OK City, and the first half of the trip to OK City. I'm not sure why, except perhaps this time was just so ordinary. Thanks for continuing to stay with me while I struggle through this part!

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Divorce from a man's perspective perhaps?

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How affected is our view of ourselves-- our intelligence, beauty, self worth-- when pitted against someone who is supposed to be the embodiment of the "gold standard?" The evil is twofold: a loathing and envy of another, coupledd with budding self-loathing.

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For some unknown reason, women feel they must drop hints as to the gifts they would like to receive from men. The poem is a silly take on how this ritual does NOT work!

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Any and all feedback is appreciate. I'm not a poet, but I am trying to explore other genres in order to improve my writing generally. This is part of an exercise I am putting myself through where I write as the words come to me and give them life on paper without judgments or edits.

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John Blackburn breaks into places and gets paid for it. He tests security vulnerabilities for a living, and helps battered women for a life. When he merges both sides of his world to help a bruised divorcee, he discovers the Ex is not what he seems. With the help of an eclectic crew of abused women and street miscreants, John races to literally save San Francisco.

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This is the first book in a series of whodunits called the "Temporary Murders." The sleuth is a temporary employee who finds herself embroiled in various adventures. Temporary Interest takes place in a bank. Any and all feedback is most welcome. Thanks!

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This is the first draft of The Erstwhile Hearts Guild Chapter 3. This story is coming to me sort of haphazardly,(hence no Chapter 2 yet) but I take it with me everywhere. Any feedback is helpful. Thank you in advance

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Sally is frustrated with her career as a massage therapist, and her inability to get over her husband's death. Jennifer wants to find her own passion. Lauren is stuck in a marriage to an alcoholic. Through their friendships and their struggles, and a little magic, they each get a little closer to finding and fulfilling their dreams.

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This is a my version of the setting at a recent business dinner.

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A short story about the woman who kills Osama Bin Laden

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45 yr old bachelor finally succombs to therapy and its possible solution to his mid-life crisis

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We're six years into the 21st century and guys, it sucks to be you. There are lots of reasons why and Starbuck MacIntyre has a lot to say about it. Want to reclaim your masculinity? Tired of women trying to change you? Sick of psycho ex-girlfriends who call you when you're gettin' some with someone else? Got a girlfriend who reads chick-lit and who might be addicted to "Sex and the City?" This read is for you!

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A woman about to commit a savage act of war in the name of religion....a dark comparison to the seamingly routine dressing of a woman.

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