Tag: fiction
group name: laladylisasclub
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May 25, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
"Call the fire department!" Ira opened the back door and shouted to his wife.
He ran toward the garage, disheartened as flames rolled out the side windows. Crackling wood discouraged . . . more
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August 23, 2007 12:54 PM EDT --
I read crime fiction quite extensively. Probably three of every four books I read are set in the United Kingdom. British police procedurals are my favorite genre, with British crime fiction . . . more
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June 13, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
This is from the same place as this other one, and if you want to know what place that is, you'll just have to click through the links. It was posted on Leap Day, which was either the theme or . . . more
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April 13, 2007 04:37 PM EDT --
The Mother-In-Law
It had been over two years since she died, and there she was, perfume over-powering, sitting on my bed!
"I need to talk to you." my mother-in-law said.
"OK, I . . . more
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June 22, 2007 02:30 AM EDT --
I've always loved libraries. I can't remember the very first time I went to the library with my Mom, because I'm sure I was being toted in one of her arms as she held books with the other. . . . more
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September 08, 2007 09:56 PM EDT --
This might be unconventional, to put an author's note at the beginning of a story, but no one has ever described me as conventional. This story is a repost for two reasons:
1. A dear friend . . . more
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May 30, 2007 08:27 PM EDT --
My top is too tight and my pants are too baggy. The sleeves of my red sweater don’t reach my wrists. I’ll try not to extend my arms. I’ll try to look and act normal all evening. I take . . . more
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October 07, 2007 08:11 AM EDT --
Author Dennis Lehane achieved international accolades for his book, Mystic River. It was made into a movie by Clint Eastwood and starred Sean Penn. Many times the movie version of a good book . . . more
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July 26, 2008 01:30 AM EDT --
In the spirit of recent reposts from some of my connections, I am republishing (excuse me, sharing) this for Peter Wimsey. Many of my current connections (excuse me, friends) are unaware that my . . . more
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May 27, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
(fiction) CRITIQUE WANTED
(This was the first thing I published on Gather, many moons ago. It's unlikely anyone around today remembers it. It was removed and published elsewhere, but it . . . more
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January 12, 2007 09:37 PM EST --
Today I turn eighteen. Although I am the youngest in my family, composed of five girls no less, I have managed to be the first married and the first to produce a son (something my parents were unable . . . more
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August 15, 2007 06:19 PM EDT --
It wasn’t really a whistle. Whistles are supposed to cut through the air - not hang in the ether and then drop to the ground. I wasn’t even sure if they heard me. I . . . more
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November 14, 2007 12:54 PM EST --
Cue music. Start montage of different Scrappy-Doo moments. Begin narrator’s voiceover.
“Scrappy-Doo’s story began in a charity ward at St. . . . more
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April 02, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
He wouldn't have done it, no he wouldn't have , except for the voice that drifted into the exercise room where he, their father, was doing twenty minutes on the treadmill. "Hello . . . more
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December 07, 2006 06:36 PM EST --
Once upon a time there was a purse that went out to dinner with some friends. Because she was new, her owner, a Ms. Lisa, thought that the perfect place for her was not on the floor of a cheap Italian . . . more
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May 11, 2007 02:58 PM EDT --
I don’t expect him to understand. Why should he understand when no one else ever has? He scoffs, “It’s 89 degrees and you are dressed like it is 30 below!” What . . . more
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February 13, 2007 03:36 PM EST --
Romanticism isn’t really my thing, but I do enjoy historic novels and if they occasionally come in the form of romance then okay. ‘Through a Glass Darkly’ by Karleen Koen is an . . . more
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January 17, 2007 04:40 PM EST --
Don’t let anyone tell you differently, there is a proper way of revealing to someone that their dog is dead and an improper way. In retrospect, I might rethink asking my sister if she remembered . . . more
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August 27, 2007 06:27 PM EDT --
I watch the documentary crew set up the lights. Although this is my house, and has been for the last thirty odd years, I remain in the background observing from the shadows. My impulse . . . more
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February 14, 2007 12:44 AM EST --
It was the box in the last closet emptied on the last day before everything had to be out. Grandma had been dead for six months and nothing, thus far, had proven to be out of the ordinary. . . . more
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