Tag: drabble
member name: Susan Budig
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December 11, 2008 02:01 AM EST --
Aude peered at the photograph. Celester looked twenty years younger then, she thought. Turning the snapshot over, . . .
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September 18, 2008 01:05 AM EDT --
Dad always put me to bed when I was little. Each night we'd kneel down beside my twin bed to say my prayers. I grew up Catholic so used the Sign of the Cross at the start . . .
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March 17, 2008 01:49 PM EDT --
While the rest of her office sank their teeth into buttered croissants, Esme painted her nails. As noon hour loomed and workers wrapped up projects, heading for lunch, Esme chatted . . .
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April 03, 2008 05:30 PM EDT --
Nothing could stop carcinoma cells from multiplying as they sought to dominate her healthy cells. She lay in her hospice . . .
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July 08, 2009 02:26 AM EDT --
LM commented on my poetry blog saying, " this is what confuses me about poetry. [Your poem] “ Learning ” looked like nothing more than a short story that was broken up into short . . .
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August 26, 2009 04:57 AM EDT --
Bet you've heard a person say, "I should write a book!" Do they mean it? If so, what's stopping them? What about you? Do you want to write a book? Or a magazine article? . . .
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September 16, 2009 01:06 AM EDT --
You might remember a couple weeks ago when I listed some core competencies that employers look for in potential employees. I posited that those same traits describe winning manuscripts . . .
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September 30, 2009 02:17 AM EDT --
Written communication over the centuries has changed such that we now have a close approximation of animated writing. This moving writing occurs on the Internet. Whereas we once spent . . .
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October 07, 2009 12:27 AM EDT --
After last week's column, a member of Gather Writing Essentials sent me a message lamenting her limited time to work on the prompts. I replied, " You'd be surprised at how the effect of taking . . .
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July 01, 2009 03:16 AM EDT --
Femi Kuti performed at the Minnesota Zoo last night. King Sunny Adé opened the show. What struck me is the stage presence that Kuti commanded. He was not timid . . .
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September 23, 2009 01:28 AM EDT --
I looked over MaryAnne's post about generating more points . Paraphrased, it suggests to find out what people in the Interverse (that's Internet and Universe mooshed together) want to read about . . .
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August 24, 2009 03:31 PM EDT --
Nothing could stop carcinoma cells from multiplying as they sought to dominate her healthy cells. She lay in her hospice bed, lungs gurgling, oxygen elusive. . . .
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July 15, 2009 01:43 AM EDT --
I'm on vacation. My in-laws have . . .
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July 22, 2009 02:28 AM EDT --
Is your writing true? Do you tell the truth or fudge on the details?
I write for newspapers--that is, I used to. Both of my papers informed me this month that they could no longer . . .
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July 29, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
Hey y’all. I’m here in the Crescent City writing on a public library computer . I tried to submit my column last night, on time, but a glitch in submissions with Gather . . .
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August 12, 2009 01:06 AM EDT --
I've been working on finding a venue to publish an audio-essay that I've written and produced. Just tonight, after returning from a terrific bike ride, I checked my e-mail to discover another rejection . . .
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August 19, 2009 01:32 AM EDT --
Recently a musician I know had eye surgery. At a gig of his that I attended in New Orleans, he exclaimed, " For the first time in my life I can see clearly !" This comment piqued . . .
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September 09, 2009 02:37 AM EDT --
How does time work for you? Always running behind time? Are you johnny-on-the-spot, sometimes to the dismay of the hosts? Do you find yourself wishing for an extra hour in the day? . . .
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October 14, 2009 01:40 AM EDT --
Gary (the Eclectic) Timothy said elsewhere on Gather: Only readers, [such as] editors, will analyze your story for exact correctness. And often, the changes that editors would . . .
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