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short story. When The Bird Sings in the Pine Wood.

A bird is singing in the pine woods, the song is piercing the still evening air. ...you could see her, silhouetted, watch her gazing out across the sea, staring at the point where the vast sky and the sea met.. the hem of Laurel's dress...

31 comments    beach fiction short story
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Online Writing Sites for Self-Expression & PROFIT

This Hub is an overview of online outlets for self-expression and profit. Focus is on content sites, citizen journalism and fiction.

10 comments    business advice how to
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Five Key Elements Of Writing A Short Story

(In response to THIS request) Writing a short story can be broken down in many ways, but the following five elements constitute what I believe make up a pretty solid core: Character Desire Conflict ...

45 comments    advice writing short stories
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All About Flash Fiction

Flash fiction is a form of short story writing that is very tight and very concise. It pulls the reader in with the barest amount of fluff and lives or dies in the space of 250-1,000 words(though there is no...

5 comments    education how writing
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The Angry Housewife a short story

How dangerous can vacuum cleaners be? Housewife, Dawn, doesn't much like housework -- and her vacuum cleaner doesn't much like her ... The third in a series of short stories by Camlo de Ville Sharon and...

14 comments    entertainment writing funny
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Perhaps Morbid Sudden Fiction

Day after day, I sit waiting for voters to enter the Polling Place with problems. Day after day, I turn to my reading material for inspiration to fill the ten hour days when no one, not one person, has a...

6 comments    entertainment arts humor
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One a Day

The sunlight that bled through the translucent curtains and crept past the drawn shades mixed with the luminescence of the television screen, barely providing enough light for Frank to read. Holding the...

0 comments    fiction beer creative writing
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Though I Sleep In Exile

If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.  - Nietzsche Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. -Tolstoy It’s gonna get fucking cold in Siberia, where I have exiled myself, filthy,...

0 comments    travel trains short fiction
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Annie and Me

 THIS HUB:   edit   STATS   delete   TOOLS:   start a new hub  When all`s been said and done62 By Tadeusz598 An Annie Story I`m walking down Piccadilly. The weather is...

0 comments    entertainment friends girls
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bookwormshortstories

Author Alan Blakeborough 2009  It was a dark night, just before midnight and approaching Avebury after a long journey and looking foreward to getting home. In the distance I noticed a reflection of the...

0 comments    fiction stories original
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