Tag: writing
member name: Becky Powell
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April 16, 2008 10:26 AM EDT --
She looked at the name on the wedding cake. She couldn't remember whether she was Lisa, or Beth, or Mary. She was Judy this time. She looked at her new in-laws, who . . .
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January 21, 2008 11:10 AM EST --
Color of a Peach
Color of a peach
Downy skin newly rouged
Tender golden flesh
Sweet heartache on the lips
Round woman fruit
Color of a peach
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May 28, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
This wino was dumpster-diving in the alley, brittle and bent like a dead plant. Not unusual.
Mrs. Darcy always goes out before daylight to water her red geraniums. . . .
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January 21, 2008 11:12 AM EST --
At the door. At the door.
I sink and die
Or stare off into space
longer than is necessary .
At the window, louder now.
Seeping in to me.
Malevolent intentions
The loss of all remaining . . .
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April 14, 2008 05:22 PM EDT --
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor...It is the mark of a genius.
--Aristotle
A ny parent can attest to the effort necessary to explain to . . .
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June 09, 2008 09:14 AM EDT --
They say walk a mile in someone's shoes to understand another's life. Nobody sought that from me. I was new once, I suppose, but can't remember if I once trod a better . . .
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March 31, 2008 07:57 PM EDT --
Naomi slid out of bed so she could shower first, before Jack could make the bathroom steamy and damp. Getting out of the shower, she realized she'd forgotten her robe. She carefully . . .
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April 08, 2008 01:20 PM EDT --
She put her last eight cigarettes beside a clean ashtray. After the last eight, she'd quit. It was too little, too late, but still. First cigarette to calm her nerves. . . .
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March 26, 2008 09:27 AM EDT --
An unimpeachable source, refusing to be named in order to remain anonymous, divulged today that John McCain would absolutely die for controversial mega-star prophet Tom Cruise as his running . . .
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February 27, 2008 10:02 AM EST --
You were a stranger three doors down
A skeleton with yellow onion skin
A used-up smoker's heart.
Twice each day you walked past my house.
First downhill, with eyes cast down . . .
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March 02, 2008 02:33 PM EST --
Fate gifted Beth, at forty, with a sudden and wicked understanding of the concept of time. The reality of what she had left of life hit her like an existential brick wall. For the entire year . . .
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March 15, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
Don't look, I told myself. I didn't want to see what the anchor woman liked to do after three martinis. But it wasn't as easy as turning away, this new . . .
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April 29, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. ~Jill Ruckelshaus
Feminist criticism focuses on assumptions about gender in literature and how these assumptions . . .
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May 22, 2008 08:27 AM EDT --
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin, Vintage Books,1998.
Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is a fat, ambitious book that . . .
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February 05, 2008 03:28 PM EST --
A great divide, a chasm. That's what happened. This giant crack in the whole scheme of my life. The life I'd planned out, the one I'd educated myself for. I'm on . . .
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March 11, 2008 07:39 AM EDT --
You aren't what I expected you would be
This other person in the house
How could I possibly have known
The sum of all your parts?
In my hand your little one nested
But . . .
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April 29, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician . . .
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January 22, 2008 12:42 PM EST --
Recently I discovered that there is an entire universe of literature out there for young adults. I am way past my prime for teen-ager books but because I homeschool my son, been able . . .
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April 10, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
Looking back at the pivotal moments in our lives, it's hard not to wonder what might have happened if we'd taken a different fork in the road. In her new book, The End of an Error . . .
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January 14, 2009 06:24 PM EST --
I hope all my Gather friends are off to a great new year. I've missed 100 word stories and writing prompts and reading all the great stuff my friends write.
I haven't been . . .
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