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Building Character (Part One) -
Michael Ramzy (633)    
Michael Ramzy   
He stood very still, almost like a statue. There was nothing around him, no clue as to where he was or could be. All he saw was white, not a milky white haze or fog but a real whiteness that blinded him. The room he was in was large, like a rectangular hall. All four walls were white. The... ( added 161 days 1 hour ago.) |
The Audition - A Tale of Terror Part 7 -
Ryan Stroud (3,733)   
Ryan Stroud
Jim, now with his back to the hallway, turned and tried to head towards the front door. Murphy moved in his way, knocking Jim down.
"Jim, I'm telling you, just let this happen."
Jim crawled backwards and stood up. He waited for Murphy to come at him a little and then he would strike.... ( added 201 days 6 hours ago.) |
The Audition - A Tale of Terror Part 6 -
Ryan Stroud (3,733)
Ryan Stroud
He saw Murphy's back, lowering down as to pick something up. Murphy's sister was there also, the dark figure, and was pointing at the ground. Murphy shouted something at her but Jim couldn't make it out. She lowered her dark, gangly body down as well and when they both rose together, they were... ( added 201 days 6 hours ago.) |
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The Audition - A Tale of Terror Part 5 -
Ryan Stroud (3,733)
Ryan Stroud
That sounded like McCoy, Jim thought. They two looked at each other with wonder stricken across their faces.
"Dude, what was that?" Jim asked.
"Um, well, I bet it was nothing. Hey, wait here, practice some scales and I'll go check it out, alright?" Murphy put his guitar down and exited... ( added 201 days 6 hours ago.) |
The Audition - A Tale of Terror Part 4 -
Ryan Stroud (3,733)
Ryan Stroud
The two exited the room, Jim following Murphy down a small group of stairs into what seemed to be a garage converted into a rehearsal space. The large room was covered in carpets and egg crates, to help produce a better sound in the room. There was a nice 6-piece drum set and a wall of... ( added 201 days 6 hours ago.) |
The Audition - A Tale of Terror Part 3 -
Ryan Stroud (3,733)
Ryan Stroud
Jim approached the door to the mysterious house. He looked around for a moment, trying to see through the small windows next to the doorframe. He could see a light on inside and shadows of people in the back living room. He stood straight up, took a deep breath, and rang the doorbell. Jim waited.... ( added 201 days 6 hours ago.) |
The Audition - A Tale of Terror Part 2 -
Ryan Stroud (3,733)
Ryan Stroud
Jim climbed into the Beretta, shutting the door behind him. He laid the back of his head up against the headrest and closed his eyes. "This is my ticket out," he thought. "No more cleaning up after wasteful, rude richies. No more disgusted looks from them. No more of their crap." A small smile... ( added 201 days 6 hours ago.) |
The Audition - A Tale of Terror Part 1 -
Ryan Stroud (3,733)
Ryan Stroud
Today was the day for Jim. Everything was finally going to change.
Jim, wrapped in a towel covering his recently showered and cleaned body, was searching through his closet, looking for the perfect shirt to wear. Hung in his closet were rows of button-down work shirts with "Jim" plastered... ( added 201 days 6 hours ago.) |
"Why We Make Mistakes" a Book Review -
 - Dianne Lehmann (5,182)  
Dianne Lehmann
Written by Joseph T. Hallinan, "Why We Make Mistakes," is a clear and well written look into some of the inner workings of the human mind. While he does devote one small chapter at the end to advise us on how to make fewer mistakes, that is not the main concern of the book. So if you are thinking... ( added 204 days 4 hours ago.) |
The Endless Dreams of Youth -
Michael Ramzy (633)
Michael Ramzy
She sat on the swing, the thin metal chains holding it under her small figure. She looked across the playground and saw him coming. He had his baseball cap pulled down over his eyes, as always. She smiled.
He was eight and walked with the unhurried, carefree steps youth allows. He wore a... ( added 223 days 6 hours ago.) |
The Ironic Elevator (Conclusion) -
Michael Ramzy (633)
Michael Ramzy
Seven hundred thousand dollars.
8 The elevator is now on the fortieth, forty-second . . . it has arrived.
I have the fat man's briefcase in my left hand now and my suitcase in my right hand. It has been an hour since my wife was introduced to the sidewalk just outside the lobby of my... ( added 230 days 9 hours ago.) |
The Ironic Elevator (Part Three) -
Michael Ramzy (633)
Michael Ramzy
I glanced at the photo, then turned my eyes back to the vial of medicine I was stretching my hand out to. I was only inches from it when I stopped. I was kneeling in the elevator with my arm out and I just stopped.
The man continued to choke and clutch his chest, but I could no longer hear... ( added 231 days 13 hours ago.) |
The Ironic Elevator (Part Two) -
Michael Ramzy (633)
Michael Ramzy
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"Are you all right?" I asked. The man was quite heavyset, his large blue suit rumpled from both the humidity of the day and the weight it wrapped itself around. Although crumpled, it was still an expensive and well-tailored suit. It might be hard to imagine a very large man with a... ( added 232 days 10 hours ago.) |
The Ironic Elevator (Part One) -
Michael Ramzy (633)
Michael Ramzy
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Irony is not what I think of when I think of a rickety metal cage which rockets me up to the top of my apartment building every night when I get home. I never really thought about it before, to be honest. Yet if I had, I certainly wouldn't think of anything as dark or dramatic as irony.... ( added 233 days 7 hours ago.) |
Just Why Are Palindromes So Good? -
- Cameron Home (284)  
Cameron Home
Like always, I shall start on a question I have lately been pondering on. Palindromes, why are they so good? All they are words and phrases backwards. Some are boring and plain like Bob and Hannah but others are amazingly witty and interesting. What has gotten my mind interested in such things is... ( added 234 days 2 hours ago.) |
Teaching A Thousand Splendid Suns: Afghanistan Speaks -
Susan Bertolino (108) 
I just finished teaching Sunjata, the epic about the king who began the Mande Empire in West Africa. Now I'm moving onto A Thousand Splendid Suns . I may have to use a different tactic: I've been using Jungian archetypes to teach The Epic of Gilgamesh and Sunjata, but it may not be effective... ( added 252 days 7 hours ago.) |
Territories -
Michael Ramzy (633)
Michael Ramzy
Territory split among us comes between us
All we know, we leave behind.
Leave behind a world where we were
One for all and all for one
For all we know, we'd just begun
Territory come between us and all we've known
All we ever knew, we knew as brothers
Now:
We run side... ( added 272 days 6 hours ago.) |
Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley in Conversation -
Jean Purcell (1,945) 
Jean Purcell
From Harlem
Maya Angelou speaks
With Tavis in LA
He questions
And she answers
About this life's too-brief day
"I am like a grain of sand"
She says
( added 289 days 5 hours ago.) |
The New Breed -
Michael Ramzy (633)
Michael Ramzy
Another beautiful day in America and to celebrate I thought it would be interesting to note a new breed of individual I have noticed lately in the news. I have included the profession and then followed it with a quote from this new breed. And yes, this is definitely tongue-in-cheek. I mean, it's... ( added 299 days 16 hours ago.) |
Meet Joe -
Michael Ramzy (633)
Michael Ramzy
Joe didn't smoke. He didn't drink or swear, either. He lived a simple life and had a simple job and was the happiest person he knew. He drove a simple pickup and drove the same way to and from work every day. On the weekends he went to the lake or worked on his yard. He was as normal and... ( added 304 days 14 hours ago.) |
Can You Stop Being a Poet? -
Tex Norman (4,200) 
Tex Norman
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Can you be a poet and suddenly just stop? Can you be a poet for a while maybe a long
while and then become something else entirely?
I only ask because lately I've been feeling all
expository. For example, this morning
I was going to write a poem about... ( added 312 days 7 hours ago.) |
The Hound Of The Baskervilles, et al, Remembered -
Joel Hendon (16,285)  
Joel Hendon
Memories have a tendency to be pleasant to the average mind. Our minds tend to forget the unpleasant parts of our lives and the parts which were sweetest are often indelibly etched in our memory.
Reading of the old classics tend to give me nostalgia more than anything else, I believe. Sir... ( added 318 days 2 hours ago.) |
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The Caboose -
Michael Ramzy (633)
Michael Ramzy
He sat on the fence with his small body squatting on the wooden beams. He leaned forward with his face held in his hands and looked at the cleared field across the street from his house. He thought of how he used to come here to play during the summer, how he used to walk down the small trails... ( added 327 days 22 hours ago.) |
Writing When I Don't Feel Like Writing. -
Tex Norman (4,200)
Tex Norman
I write every day. If you are serious about something and want to reach your potential, you have to work at it every day. You write when you don't feel like writing. That may be the hardest time to write, when you are uninspired, discouraged even, sick, in pain, when you just don't feel like... ( added 329 days 4 hours ago.) |
Say It Was A Lie! -
Tex Norman (4,200)
Tex Norman
One morning Mama says to me,
"Tiff, you've seemed down lately.
You've been grouchy lately, too.
Tell me, is there something wrong?
What is bothering you?
I don't know why I picked then to tell,
but then was when I said what I said.
"Mama," I said,
"sometimes daddy... ( added 339 days ago.) |
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