Tag: fiction
group name: hitchingpost
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April 06, 2008 01:59 AM EDT --
The hypnotist reviewed my chart--necessarily devoid of eights.
"Eights make my neck constrict," I said. "Sometimes I faint."
"Tell me about Alex," she said.
"We're . . .
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December 01, 2009 06:14 PM EST --
This week's genre is Nostalgia . Write a story 100 words or less and written for the following prompt:
Tell me a story real or imagined that contains one or more of the following: . . .
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February 02, 2008 10:10 PM EST --
Alexei was awakened by the smell of fresh paint flowing
through his open window. It was bright in the bedroom. Sunspots
played on the wall. Blinking, he screwed his . . .
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April 14, 2008 11:50 PM EDT --
When Brad explained what he wanted, I said, "Bring her."
He'd seen so much death.
But the day before our wedding--no Brad, fear gnawing at my stomach... I wished I'd told him to . . .
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March 08, 2008 11:12 AM EST --
Chapter 3
So there we stood. Me in my Jimmy Choo's and entirely not-dead and he in his dusty clothes and entirely very-alive. And we both realized I was in one hell of a mess.
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January 17, 2008 08:36 PM EST --
Yes, he's crazy. The whole family says it, even grandpa. The other evening Iasked him to help me write a composition. He didn't want to. He said, "Youcan do that by yourself."
"No!" . . .
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March 26, 2009 04:53 PM EDT --
The two middle-school girls were dressed in the cutest clothes middle-school girls could find. Mandy usually made a threesome, but today she was absent from school. Raven had the news for Ashley.
"Did . . .
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August 03, 2008 08:21 PM EDT --
The UnGodly
© Robert Charles Burnham
I have to admit that I never thought I would die. Even as Death came for me this morning, just before sunrise. It wasn't . . .
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October 19, 2009 04:52 PM EDT --
“Now don’t feel awkward, we’re all here to share our problems. Just tell us how you feel.” I gave our newest member of group an encouraging, sympathetic look. . . .
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May 03, 2008 09:49 PM EDT --
I was very impressed with this book! I love Stephen King's writing but a lot of his books tend to wander into the really gruesome and disgusting category! This one however was an excellent . . .
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November 20, 2009 04:03 PM EST --
This week's genre is “ Your choice” .
The story should be 100 words or less and written for the following prompt:
It's time for those Thanksgiving stories. . . .
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June 06, 2008 11:01 PM EDT --
Hello Fellow Gatherites,
As you know, there are many talented authors that are Gather members. As an author myself (of the award-winning Darkness Descending), I know that having an independent review . . .
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March 29, 2008 12:07 PM EDT --
My book, Darkness Descending , was selected as the best gay fiction book of 2007 by Reader Views Annual Literary Awards. This was the first contest that I entered, so I'm . . .
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July 26, 2009 05:01 PM EDT --
How to Marry a Mummy
Well, I was still alive. I could tell because I had a killer headache. I was lying prone, on something soft and comfortable. I wiggled my fingers and . . .
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August 06, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
If Adam looks the guy in the face and shrugs, “I don’t know his name, dude,” then no one knows him.
Every other day, he walks into the camping store, itching his grimy scalp with long . . .
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March 26, 2009 11:25 PM EDT --
Part 1 is here.
Dr. David Faraday took a seat across from Mandy and Vanetta Hess. Blonde and handsome, he was the very picture of success that Medicorp loved to show parents-to-be. By his twenty-fifth . . .
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March 18, 2009 01:54 PM EDT --
The protagonist, Delphi Brent is a wonderful character who brings you right into her world. As a teenager, Delphi has a serious hit-and-run accident while visiting family friends in Colorado. Growing . . .
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February 19, 2008 04:59 PM EST --
I entered my book, Darkness Descending , in a book contest a couple of months ago. The winners won't be announced until the end of March. About a month ago, my book was . . .
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February 22, 2008 11:32 AM EST --
I never worried about time much, until time caught up with me. How was I to know it would show up looking like a giant Aztec calendar? Or maybe that was Death taking on the appearance of the calendar? . . .
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March 23, 2008 10:18 PM EDT --
I am writing this silly story for the Bright Ideas for Best Selling Authors group. They are having a contest for a 50 dollar AMEX gift card. The contest rules are to write a poem, or story about . . .
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