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365 Short Stories (Dark)—Week Forty-three
© Chrisharvey | Dreamstime Stock Photos Picked up my copy of Phoenix Noir and decided to go dark this week, not my usual inclination or my mood but it’s thought provoking to examine the dark corners...
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365 Short Stories (Holiday)—Week Forty-four
Light the Season with a donation to The Little House in honor of someone you love. Time to summon up the holiday spirit; I’m looking for holiday-themed, heart-touching stories to set the mood. They are...
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365 Short Stories (Mystery)—Week Forty-Five
Clive Cussler signs Mirage at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ I’m pushing my genre borders this week, reading mystery, looking for beautiful writing in a category of literature that...
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365 Short Stories (Questions)—Week Forty-Six
© Jyothi | Dreamstime Stock Photos Stories can leave you with questions; the kind that lead to self-examination, growth and a new appreciation or the kind than leave you puzzled and laughing. “The Hurt...
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365 Short Stories (First Person)—Week Forty-Seven
© Clarita | Dreamstime Stock Photos Writing first person fiction lets you muck around in someone’s head to see what’s there or mess with their attitude. Where do you find writers audacious enough to...
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365 Short Stories (The Sixties)—Week Forty-Eight
© Boligogo | Dreamstime Stock Photos Tumultuous times, The Sixties is the time period of the new book I’m writing, so I’m winding the clock back to the era of counterculture. From American Short Story...
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365 Short Stories (Behaving Badly)—Week Forty-Nine
© Alptraum | Dreamstime Photos A slip that becomes a habit and then a lifestyle that leads to disaster is a theme this week’s stories about people behaving badly. I used Cornerstone Fellowship...
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365 Short Stories (Bargains)—Week Fifty
© Andres Rodriguez | Dreamstime Bargains, not the deals we shop for but the ones we make—with life and with each other, are this week’s fare. Each week, I let my first story suggest a theme. Good...
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365 Short Stories (Metaphors)—Week Fifty-One
I love metaphors, figurative language or suggestive phrasing folded into a story like raspberry filling in vanilla layer cake. “ReMem,” by Amy Brill, One Story This brilliantly crafted story spins our...
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365 Short Stories (Last Post)—Week Fifty-Two
© Oliver Suckling | Dreamstime This is my last post is my 365 Short Stories series. I fell short of my goal of 365 stories, but not of my vow to post a weekly progress report. (At a word count of...
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