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[THE WRITTEN RECORD]    (ASR)    # 255576:
        Witnessing My Wife's Death
[MY FRIEND PAM]    (18+)    # 527304:
        A collection of pieces about my best friend.
[DAVID ON WRITING]    (18+)    # 429179:
        Tips On How Not To Write From The Expert
[FRICK & FRACK]    (18+)    # 481385:
        The Hapless Detectives on the loose.
[HELPFUL HINTS FOR ALL]    (18+)    # 437049:
        The Wisdom Of The Ages
[FACING MODERN LIFE]    (18+)    # 286296:
        Essays about Words & People of our Time
[Up The Family Tree]    (18+)    # 333591:
        Anyone for Ancest(ors)?
[LIVING AND LOVING]    (18+)    # 290579:
        Life, Friendship & Fantasies
[PAST TIMES AND GOOD COMPANY]    (18+)    # 290547:
        'The past is a foreign country, people do things differently there." G.P. Hartley
[WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING]    (18+)    # 290572:
        Look at me I'm self-employed
[RANTS]    (GC)    # 355682:
        ALL MY RANTS IN ONE PLACE
[CATS AND DOGS]    (13+)    # 355855:
        I Wonder What This Folder Is About?
[SMUT HAS ITS PLACE TOO]    (XGC)    # 728855:
        The Other Side of Captain Mustache
[CONTEST ENTRIES]    (13+)    # 335943:
        The worst of the worst. Entered because someone must finish last.
[The Gall Stone Chronicles]    (18+)    # 326394:
        Life with Gall Stones
[MASTER OF HEARTH & HOME]    (13+)    # 289154:
        A collection of pieces about the home front
[TRAVEL BROADENS THE MIND]    (18+)    # 414768:
        Travels with my dog, self and others
[MODERN TIMES]    (18+)    # 308135:
        A FAMOUS STORY RETOLD
[THE MAN BEHIND THE SCREEN]    (13+)    # 304189:
        Where did this crazy man come from?
THE MOOSE LODGE    (ASR)    # 448824:
        The Start and End of a Writing Career
[The Seminar]    (GC)    # 273179:
        People and their sometimes messy lives
[Junk Mail/W.I.P.]    (18+)    # 312390:
        Works in Progress//Please do not rate
[Free To Write Entries]    (18+)    # 520948:
        A collection of entries to Rhyssa's Free To Write forum
[Images]    (E)    # 529850:
        Collection of Images
#255576:   THE WRITTEN RECORD    (ASR)     [Top]
Witnessing My Wife's Death    (22 items)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY    (E)    # 431970:
        Happy Birthday
FORWARD    (E)    # 255582:
        An Explanation of this folder
THE FARMER'S ALMANAC    (E)    # 515491:
        A visitor and my walnut crop.
GIVE ME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION    (E)    # 299969:
        The ICU Unit
ECHOES    (13+)    # 320117:
        A Twilight Zone Experience
SPRINGTIME FOR MORGAN    (E)    # 344139:
        Hope springs eternal
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE    (E)    # 255586:
        The Postman Didn't Stop.
ENCOUNTERS WITH GREAT MEN    (E)    # 255604:
        Alfred Barnes and the Hoosick Street Crow
DREAMWEAVER    (ASR)    # 255616:
        Waking Up Between Dreams and Reality
BLUEBIRD    (E)    # 255628:
        A Cold Memorial Day
DOORS CLOSING    (E)    # 255633:
        Morgan passes away
THE PET LOVERS' CALENDAR    (E)    # 256070:
        A Six Month Chronology
STAYING ALIVE    (E)    # 256035:
        Going On With Life
A VALATIAN WAKE    (E)    # 256057:
        Celebrating life
GOLDERS GREEN    (E)    # 256061:
        My Experience with funerals
LABORING DAY    (E)    # 256084:
        Funereal Plans
LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF SALAD    (E)    # 256090:
        Getting Ready for the Burial
REASON TO BELIEVE    (E)    # 256100:
        Burial In The North Woods
GHOST IN A DREAM    (E)    # 256078:
        The title says it all.
OLD MR. MILLER    (E)    # 283426:
        Eagle Crag Lake - 1974
THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS    (E)    # 256115:
        Meeting another writer
WRITING MY WAY OUT OF THE CORNER    (E)    # 430591:
        One Year Later
#273179:   The Seminar    (GC)     [Top]
People and their sometimes messy lives    (6 items)

PART I - THE MAN NOT THERE    (13+)    # 273192:
        Out of the past
Part II - ALABASTER DREAMS    (13+)    # 275476:
        We meet Bobby
PART III - THE PROFESSIONAL HEIR    (18+)    # 276714:
        Two Dinners with Julie
PART IV - MASTER BEDROOMS    (GC)    # 277974:
        We eavesdrop in the bedroom
PART V - JULIE'S SECRETS    (GC)    # 278952:
        The apex of her affair
PART VI - WHAT GOES ROUND    (GC)    # 279070:
        Two Wills, Two Dogs, Magic Fingers & a Conclusion
#286296:   FACING MODERN LIFE    (18+)     [Top]
Essays about Words & People of our Time    (10 items)

THE ACCIDENTAL WRITER    (ASR)    # 983849:
        The meaning of life, more or less.
MISS HAVISHAM IN THE WINDSOR QUEEN    (13+)    # 685190:
        Miss Havisham eats out.
TAILFINS, ZEPPELINS & DAD    (13+)    # 612710:
        Meanwhile down at Cadillac Ranch
STOKED, BOTHERED & BEWILDERED    (13+)    # 609672:
        Deconstructing Big Brown
GIVE THEM THE GUNSEL    (ASR)    # 478303:
        Looking for the Fall Guy
A SAFE AND SANE 4TH OF JULY    (13+)    # 461949:
        I think the heat got to me
GOING, GOING, GONG    (E)    # 418146:
        How Would We Ever Do Without ????
TANKS IN THE MEADOW    (ASR)    # 339368:
        Words make comebacks too!
WHERE THE MONEY IS    (ASR)    # 325913:
        Can't Anyone Here Balance These Books!
MEN WITH HATS    (ASR)    # 276291:
        The Comeback of the Hat
#289154:   MASTER OF HEARTH & HOME    (13+)     [Top]
A collection of pieces about the home front    (5 items)

Bumstead In The Mud Room    (13+)    # 1035277:
        The governor calls me
Schnee und Ellenbogen    (ASR)    # 983861:
        What's going on here?
THE WINTER OF OUR INCONTINENT    (13+)    # 608383:
        The Long Cold Winter
THE NOSE KNOWS    (ASR)    # 570653:
        Combining Sanford Weill, Jack Grubman & Smoke
SUNDAY DINNER    (13+)    # 272286:
        The End of the World as we know it
#290547:   PAST TIMES AND GOOD COMPANY    (18+)     [Top]
'The past is a foreign country, people do things differently there." G.P. Hartley    (9 items)

WAITING FOR LEFTY    (ASR)    # 983784:
        On using the wrong hand.
TEXAS TWO STEP    (ASR)    # 419746:
        Spike Jones & Debbie Reynolds In One Place
A RAMBO FANTASY    (ASR)    # 415429:
        Pull the pin and throw it, stupid!
I SHUDDA STOOD IN BED    (E)    # 412740:
        Somedays the bear eats you
THE ELBOW TAX    (E)    # 342658:
        A Blast From The Past
ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS    (13+)    # 289671:
        Don't try to understand it.
ROOT CANAL, ANYONE?    (18+)    # 272292:
        Of Root Canals and Haircuts
DOUBLE INDEMNITY REVISITED    (13+)    # 220038:
        Where are you Walter Neff when I really need you?
YOUNG AT HEART    (ASR)    # 209843:
        Fireworks belong to the young
#290572:   WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING    (18+)     [Top]
Look at me I'm self-employed    (7 items)

TWARDY'S FARM    (E)    # 402856:
        Make of it what you will.
BEDSIDE MANNER    (13+)    # 376970:
        Stamp Out Type A Personalities
DAYS & NIGHTS AT THE SALT MINE    (ASR)    # 368357:
        Just like the title says.
MONEY SCREAMS    (ASR)    # 312669:
        Help Me Mr. Tax Man
THE PROCRASTINATORS' BALL    (ASR)    # 264537:
        Every year at this time.
SEVEN HAWKS A-CIRCLING    (13+)    # 260324:
        In Which We Talk Taxes
DON GIOVANNI IN PHILADELPHIA    (ASR)    # 222330:
        It's all in the attitude
#290579:   LIVING AND LOVING    (18+)     [Top]
Life, Friendship & Fantasies    (19 items)

"Paging Mr. Liston"    (ASR)    # 983307:
        The human medicine ball
Lighthouses of New Jersey    (13+)    # 936234:
        Meditation on a world we know not.
SLOW ROLLIN' LOW    (13+)    # 740331:
        Selling The Farm.
THE WEEK THAT WAS    (13+)    # 726042:
        Alternate Title: All Thumbs
THE DONNER PARTY    (ASR)    # 701729:
        HEY MR. BUSH, I FOUND THE W.M.D.
WHAT HATH PAM WROUGHT?!    (ASR)    # 560881:
        Election Day 2002
LEFT SIDE, RIGHT SIDE, DUM DE DUM    (ASR)    # 550015:
        The competition in the brain
LYME HOUSE BLUES    (ASR)    # 549020:
        tick tick tick tick
PIGS AND FISHES    (ASR)    # 532317:
        Sunday at my house
RUNAWAY TRAIN    (ASR)    # 510698:
        Another Reflection on Life, Death, Love & Friendship
LOST AND FOUND    (13+)    # 445050:
        A Meditation On Death & Friendships
ANOTHER WORLD, NOT HER OWN    (E)    # 438419:
        Sending a Message
THE COMICS    (13+)    # 416867:
        The Byways of Columbia County
SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY    (E)    # 405781:
        Curtains and Home Fries
CARRY THAT WEIGHT, BOY    (ASR)    # 329272:
        It starts in the shower
MULTI-PURPOSE TOOL    (E)    # 310660:
        Christmas Alone
GRAY NOVEMBER COMING DOWN    (E)    # 292778:
        Ms. Gray visits.
THE BIG SLEEP    (E)    # 276613:
        Meet the Candidates
COW COW BOOGIE    (13+)    # 229986:
        In which the author tries to say 'tucows'
#304189:   THE MAN BEHIND THE SCREEN    (13+)     [Top]
Where did this crazy man come from?    (2 items)

SONNY & CHER - GERIATRIC VERSION    (13+)    # 503753:
        Written by Pam & David. If the line is funny, Pam wrote it. No rating needed, just enjoy!
CHUTES & LADDERS    (E)    # 304194:
        Now you can understand why you can't understand.
#308135:   MODERN TIMES    (18+)     [Top]
A FAMOUS STORY RETOLD    (6 items)

MODERN TIMES - PART I    (18+)    # 307727:
        An old story from a different viewpoint
MODERN TIMES - PART II    (18+)    # 308137:
        And A Famous Ghost Appears
MODERN TIMES - PART III    (18+)    # 308530:
        A four legged ghost of Christmas Past
MODERN TIMES - PART IV    (18+)    # 308855:
        The second spirit presents herself
MODERN TIMES - PART V    (18+)    # 308942:
        An old ghost brings the future
MODERN TIMES - PART VI    (18+)    # 309193:
        I Didn't Miss Christmas
#312390:   Junk Mail/W.I.P.    (18+)     [Top]
Works in Progress//Please do not rate    (1 item)

PREVIOUS NEWBIE CONTEST WINNERS    (13+)    # 617641:
        Past Newbie Recognition Contest Winners
#326394:   The Gall Stone Chronicles    (18+)     [Top]
Life with Gall Stones    (5 items)

COUCH POTATO    (13+)    # 296092:
        Morphine & Football don't mix
This Too Shall Pass    (13+)    # 300948:
        Santa, Spirits & Ghosts of Gallstones past
SHUFFLING OFF    (ASR)    # 312777:
        What's The Worst That Can Happen?
CROSSING THE THRESHOLD    (13+)    # 318255:
        Climb on my hobby-horse
O.K. CORRAL    (ASR)    # 323634:
        The Gall Bladder Goes
#333591:   Up The Family Tree    (18+)     [Top]
Anyone for Ancest(ors)?    (11 items)

RAMAR OF THE JUNGLE    (ASR)    # 985881:
        In which we learn tolerance
I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY    (13+)    # 432581:
        Weather It Is Better/Written December 2000
THE HOUSEPAINTER    (13+)    # 413099:
        Why am I surrounded by idiots?
UPS AND DOWNS    (ASR)    # 341933:
        9 Letter Word For Brain Teaser
WEDDING DAY 1900    (E)    # 335613:
        WEDDING DAY
PARTY ANIMAL    (E)    # 335591:
        BIRTHDAY PARTY
FOURTEEN BOLIVARS    (E)    # 335575:
        A Birthday Party
THE APOCRYPHAL HORSEMAN    (ASR)    # 333596:
        The past is apocryphal
THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS    (E)    # 288443:
        Thanksgivings I have known
PACKRAT    (E)    # 253225:
        Seeing an old car opens the memory.
THE DOLLHOUSE    (ASR)    # 210989:
        A story of a craftsman
#335943:   CONTEST ENTRIES    (13+)     [Top]
The worst of the worst. Entered because someone must finish last.    (8 items)

The Irish Revels    (13+)    # 798816:
        Christmas at Thornton's/The Quiet Man Revisted
THE DEATH OF DISCO    (13+)    # 753483:
        The Fifth Beatle
Hog Heaven    (ASR)    # 719822:
        My favorite restaurant
IF YOU'VE GOT IT, FLAUNT IT    (13+)    # 717551:
        A summer Sunday evening
THE MYSTERIOUS CHEST    (E)    # 565843:
        A Magic Carpet Ride
ELSINORE    (ASR)    # 550949:
        Trick or treating with Holstein
DEAD MAN'S CHEST    (E)    # 437618:
        Halloween July 1952
RUNNING DOGS    (13+)    # 325140:
        3rd Place - The Redheads' Contest
#355682:   RANTS    (GC)     [Top]
ALL MY RANTS IN ONE PLACE    (6 items)

SAILING, SAILING    (13+)    # 369900:
        My Credit Line Adventure
EUCALYPTUS DROPS    (13+)    # 362970:
        A Late Christmas Gift
"WAR IS HELL" (Tecumseh Sherman)    (GC)    # 355838:
        How Modern Business Works
O-V-E-R-R-A-T-E-D    (18+)    # 353348:
        Get it on tape.
TAKING NAMES    (13+)    # 306516:
        A 1200 Word Rant
SWEAT EVERYTHING    (13+)    # 221861:
        Dealing with the little things of life
#355855:   CATS AND DOGS    (13+)     [Top]
I Wonder What This Folder Is About?    (5 items)

Writer With Hair Over Eyes    (E)    # 309067:
        And His Mistress
BRINGING THE WAR HOME    (13+)    # 425330:
        Defanging the enemy.
FIGARO, FIGARO FIGARO, FEEEEGAR-O    (ASR)    # 413563:
        Becoming a Dog Groomer
HUNTERS & GATHERERS    (E)    # 355810:
        The Great Black & White Hunter
G-O-D IS MY CO-PILOT    (E)    # 256350:
        My Dog Story
#414768:   TRAVEL BROADENS THE MIND    (18+)     [Top]
Travels with my dog, self and others    (7 items)

THE JERSEY STUKA    (13+)    # 861190:
        Advice for buying a suit of armor
UNBROKEN CIRCLE    (ASR)    # 427846:
        A Rumination on a Near Miss
ON THE FIRING LINE    (E)    # 418127:
        Street Names in Upstate New York
TURNPIKE BONDS    (E)    # 414776:
        The New Concordia Building & Loan's Investments
DUCK POND    (ASR)    # 413133:
        FEEDING THE DUCKS AND OUR MEMORIES
WATER BABY    (E)    # 347998:
        Did we really evolve from the water?
ON THE ROAD AGAIN    (E)    # 260311:
        A Business Trip of sorts
#429179:   DAVID ON WRITING    (18+)     [Top]
Tips On How Not To Write From The Expert    (13 items)

THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES    (ASR)    # 626589:
        My muse consoles me.
WRITING IS HARD WORK    (18+)    # 446690:
        Tap dancing through the writer's thought process
STALIN SPEAKS    (13+)    # 429192:
        The Making of "A Dinnertime Mystery"
MY LIFE AS A SCRIVENER    (E)    # 433531:
        Ketchikan, my Ketchikan
"WHEN THE HURLYBURLY'S DONE"    (E)    # 352737:
        My Muse Pays A Visit//Finished fourth of five entries!
WRITER'S BLOCK    (13+)    # 435042:
        The Muse Returns
CALL YOUR OFFICE, MR. TOOLE    (ASR)    # 508275:
        Naming a literary executor
TENNYSON, ANYONE    (E)    # 257470:
        Nouns Into Verbs
LANGUAGE MARCHES ON    (E)    # 209834:
        A light discussion use of the word 'pundit'
JODY WALLAH    (ASR)    # 209840:
        A further discussion of pundits, wallahs and military music.
ARMOIRE AND THE MAN    (E)    # 340147:
        Words Beyond Belief
PROFESSIONAL JEALOUSY    (E)    # 342557:
        The Amazing Conrad Teitell
THE OTHER SHORE    (18+)    # 983061:
        Writers Need Publicity
#437049:   HELPFUL HINTS FOR ALL    (18+)     [Top]
The Wisdom Of The Ages    (12 items)

PESTO PETE    (E)    # 437075:
        Tips For Cleaning Your 'Fridge'
A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT    (13+)    # 435703:
        BURP BURP I SHOT YOU DOWN
PEPPER POT SOUP    (E)    # 251931:
        Making Breakfast Come Alive
DUCK DUCK GOOSE    (13+)    # 273974:
        Planning Christmas Dinner
DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES    (13+)    # 219247:
        Dealing With The Bee Population
THOUGHTS WHILE HURLING A DEAD MOUSE    (E)    # 425336:
        Rodent Disposal In Four Easy Steps
THE BIG CLEAN-UP    (E)    # 410138:
        Cleaning up a mystery.
CORDS    (13+)    # 257463:
        Dealing With The Woodman.
THE WRITER AND THE TAXMAN    (E)    # 328910:
        Writing: A hobby or a tax write-off
DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS    (ASR)    # 260331:
        How To Grow Your Business
A SET OF WHEELS    (E)    # 254906:
        How To Keep The Repo Man At Bay
OLD GLORY    (13+)    # 209824:
        How to raise the flag and fire a French 75.
#481385:   FRICK & FRACK    (18+)     [Top]
The Hapless Detectives on the loose.    (8 items)

THE CHERRY ORCHARD    (13+)    # 716486:
        A thief is loose in police headquarters
THE DESMOND CASE    (18+)    # 683537:
        Is The World Ready For This? An R Rated F & F?
Have a Doughnut?    (18+)    # 536722:
        Their closest call
DROP A HOUSE ON YOU    (ASR)    # 513919:
        Frick & Frack again!
A BUSTARD FOR FRACK    (ASR)    # 495617:
        The turquoise bird.
THE CASE OF SCOTCH    (ASR)    # 494234:
        Frick & Frack leave NurseryRhyme Land/My thanks to Trish McQueen for her comments
BAA, BAA, BAA    (ASR)    # 451991:
        Frick and Frack ride again.
A DINNERTIME MYSTERY    (E)    # 423439:
        An Old Mystery Solved
#520948:   Free To Write Entries    (18+)     [Top]
A collection of entries to Rhyssa's Free To Write forum    (2 items)

GRAND ILLUSION    (13+)    # 616736:
        Written for Writersweekly.com Short Story contest
Free To Write Entry    (18+)    # 575584:
        A Cavalcade of Chaos!
#527304:   MY FRIEND PAM    (18+)     [Top]
A collection of pieces about my best friend.    (15 items)

A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES    (13+)    # 622799:
        Our night at the Bates Motel
SNOWBOUND IN VALATIE    (13+)    # 600759:
        The title is self-evident
A MINIATURE SLEIGH AND TWO FOOLS IN LOVE    (13+)    # 595207:
        The Journey of Two Friends
TOMBSTONE TERRITORY    (13+)    # 544362:
        A Sunday In The Fall In Upstate New York
HARVEST MOON    (ASR)    # 527309:
        A perfect 24 Hours
SLOW BOAT TO LEWES    (13+)    # 501100:
        The Road to Baltimore, more or less.
I'VE GOT YOU BABE    (ASR)    # 485901:
        Writers always have problems, some are nice ones.
BREAK A LEG    (13+)    # 472843:
        You're coming back a star!
EAT 'EM UP, YUM YUM    (ASR)    # 451577:
        Oh well, we didn't need Peter O'Toole anyway
OF ROAD SALT, ANTI-FREEZE & DUST BUNNIES    (ASR)    # 333830:
        Winter Miscellanies
'WE ARE OUR FRIENDS'    (ASR)    # 304158:
        Meeting the Author
AUTUMN LEAVES    (ASR)    # 258935:
        A Golden Day In Fall - To Pam who made it possible
AFTER THE ROAST: IN RE: 325609    (E)    # 408198:
        Finished Out of the money in the Tribute Contest
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES    (13+)    # 962500:
        A Visit to the Orthopaedist
SALT OF THE EARTH    (13+)    # 708944:
        Salt Shakers and atrocious poetry I have known
#529850:   Images    (E)     [Top]
Collection of Images    (15 items)

Candle    (E)    # 801194:
        Newsletter illustration
Stop Sign    (E)    # 801178:
        Stop sign for newsletter
Mistletoe    (E)    # 791838:
        Mistletoe for newsletter
Manderley NY    (E)    # 704581:
        Rhododendron
Mystery Headline    (E)    # 677522:
        Mystery NL headline
Packer Mansion    (E)    # 580931:
        The Harry Packer Mansion
Drop Box Winners    (E)    # 539322:
        Drop Box Winners
THE DROP BOX    (E)    # 539320:
        The Drop-off box
The Drop-off Box    (E)    # 538889:
        The Drop-off box
THE DROP-OFF BOX    (E)    # 538884:
        The Drop-Off Box Sign
cabinsignbig    (E)    # 519330:
        A Good Sign
cabinsign    (E)    # 519327:
        cabin sign
Alpha Sign    (E)    # 455968:
        Wannabe's Alpha Signature
THE MACK TRUCK    (E)    # 446531:
        Alix Christina Lidle - Age 5?
THE PIRATE    (E)    # 439400:
        The Pirate and The Gypsy Queen
#728855:   SMUT HAS ITS PLACE TOO    (XGC)     [Top]
The Other Side of Captain Mustache    (2 items)

THE MIDDLE AGES    (XGC)    # 712515:
        A Night at the "Day Rate" Motel
Hindley, Heathcliff and Me    (XGC)    # 727053:
        Meanwhile, back at Peniston Crag

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