Tag: relationships
group name: roundtable
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May 03, 2008 12:10 AM EDT --
It was the only time he felt truly free.
Stan closed the door gently behind him. The cold wind pieced his skin, and, for a moment, he felt his hands glued to the brass handle. The urge to . . . more
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April 01, 2008 10:51 AM EDT --
It was just another night for many, not for me.
The moon drifted low in the sky, right amidst the huge trees silhouetted on the horizon. Its crescent shape reminded me of my own roundness; the . . . more
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December 15, 2007 03:37 AM EST --
Josie was filled with joyful anticipation. She was pregnant. It was a time of preparation! It was a time of great anxiety! Felt as fat as Santa she looked outside the window. Today she was not looking . . . more
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January 13, 2008 03:59 PM EST --
In a crowded room amidst cacophonous conversation and inadvertent smiles, I still feel desolate. I long for feelings that light up my heart, love that exuberates in the eyes and passion that satiates . . . more
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January 15, 2008 03:31 PM EST --
This article has been written for LeJoy's writing prompt " Accidents and Meetings ". Maximum words allowed 250.
Beep!
The blinking lights . . . more
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March 03, 2008 11:57 AM EST --
I always wanted to write about my grandmother, a larger-than-life, Auntie Mame kind of figure who took me to Europe when I was 18. Though I had written essays and short stories about her, I needed a . . . more
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January 10, 2008 10:50 AM EST --
She entered my life in red and painted it with vibrant hues. In her eyes I saw love and in her arms I found solace. Her laughter echoed like bells in a temple. Giving me two prized possessions, she . . . more
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June 11, 2008 06:07 PM EDT --
PROLOGUE 8:30 p.m. Thursday, September 17 (Brooks University, Winfrey Hall)
I'm a single Christian white male, 23, with no car. Please, if you had to reread that, then just stop reading . . . more
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July 08, 2007 02:35 PM EDT --
And We Are So Polite
Dives Dives looks at me and concertedly turns her head away, actively ignoring me as I stand on the street in New Paltz listening to the band Tiger Piss playing their set. As I do . . . more
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January 28, 2008 02:48 PM EST --
This Beautiful Agony
Sarah the Vet Tech and I go to the Dia Museum, if just to give ourselves something a bit more active to do than sit and talk. (I am rapidly running out of clever . . . more
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April 10, 2008 10:43 AM EDT --
Before I was published, I got a lot of questions about why I was writing romance. "Don't you want to write a real book?" they'd say. Or, "Once you break in, you'll write something . . . more
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June 11, 2008 06:12 PM EDT --
6:45 p.m. Friday, September 18
Valerie parked in the visitor lot at Brooks University and studied a campus map mounted on a placard along the sidewalk. She plotted her course to Winfrey Hall and . . . more
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June 11, 2008 06:23 PM EDT --
7 p.m. Friday, September 18 (Brooks University Library)
The scraping of Angela's soles echoed against the linoleum echoed off the library walls and shelves. With most Brooks students forgoing . . . more
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June 12, 2008 06:09 AM EDT --
7 a.m. Sunday, September 20
"H'lo?"
Marvin groped for a response to the groggy moan in his telephone earpiece. . . . more
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June 12, 2008 06:10 AM EDT --
8 p.m. Friday, September 18 (Valerie's apartment)
Back from her abortive matchmaking stint at Brooks University, Valerie laid her satchel by the sofa and unlatched the ferret cage. Adam and . . . more
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June 12, 2008 06:10 AM EDT --
8:45 p.m. Friday, September 18 (Marvin's apartment)
"But I want to. I really do."
Diana's words echoed . . . more
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May 03, 2008 08:31 PM EDT --
Flight of the Concord
Melanie says meeting me made her stop believing in the idea of a one true love. She'd spent four months prior sighing over her first serious boyfriend, Kevin. . . . more
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April 07, 2008 05:20 PM EDT --
Swansong
I don't notice anything amiss as I enter Dan 's room. I settle next to Stephanie and begin making faces at her cat (previously known as Mushka but now rechristened . . . more
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June 14, 2007 04:08 PM EDT --
Second Impressions
I cannot help what people have decided about me - even what they have decided about version of me I have never been except in their eyes - but I can help revise my own presumptions . . . more
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June 01, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
He sees his hand has lost its ring
as he sits in an empty room
He longs to make an offering
but his hand has lost its ring
His loneliness begins to sting
and he finds himself consumed
He . . . more
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