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<title>Shuttered In </title>
		<description>Being stuck inside is oppressive, but it&#39;s even worse if dementia is involved.</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:01:32 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Less than a minute</title>
		<description>Life can pass you by in fragments before it&#39;s all over.</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:43:52 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Followers of Athona</title>
		<description>A SpaceResidence lands on a planet. After almost a thousand years, it&#226;s still there.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:47:38 EST</pubDate>
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<title>You Capture my Heart,</title>
		<description>This tell how you change me to become some one better</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:57:21 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Dating on the Internet</title>
		<description>This tells how you meet some one and gets closer to them</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:54:17 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Stardust Clouds the Hourglass </title>
		<description>Meeting up with an old love at a reunion, feelings resurface.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Net Gain</title>
		<description>An unexpected love</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:56:17 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Do What Matters</title>
		<description>It isn&#39;t the destination, it is the journey that matters.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:34:48 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Porch Light Stayed On</title>
		<description>The porch light had been on for three nights straight. </description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:02:14 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Forever Gone</title>
		<description>A man realizes that his &#34;Soon to be wife&#34; is now forever gone. A Short &#39;&#39;Horror&#34; story?</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:24:42 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Darkest Secrets </title>
		<description>A man that is unwell who is overcome with fear as his first human kill seems to haunt him.</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:17:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Isolation</title>
		<description>He keeps a journal. The rest is waiting. </description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:16:02 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Gravity of Goodbye</title>
		<description>Entry for 2&#47;9 </description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:50:38 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Last Year On Fire </title>
		<description>A year of chaos, grief, and mistakes. Choices I thought were right burned everything.</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:35:13 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Fall of Katrina</title>
		<description>Katrina looks back on her life thus far.</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:23:46 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Just an Average Motel Rat Funeral</title>
		<description>When Andi finds a dead rat in her motel room, a chaotic series of events unfolds.</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:22:27 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Fallen Chair,</title>
		<description>This tells how someone tries to sit down</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:51:12 EST</pubDate>
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<title>You held on even when I let go</title>
		<description>This tells how 2 ladies  goes out but on on them had tragedy</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 10:07:37 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Uncle Hiram    (WC 298)</title>
		<description>Joey Gunderlack wants to go home; Uncle Hiram is one scary dude.</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:20:14 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Changing Direction   WC 209</title>
		<description>A middle-aged woman thinks about her life&#39;s path as she walks along a trail.</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:08:05 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Diminutive Duo: Part One</title>
		<description>A Shrunken Couple Venture into the Big World. based on Stories of Human Miniaturization</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:30:38 EST</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.Writing.Com/main/view_item/item_id/2352365-The-Diminutive-Duo-Part-One</link>
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<title>Lines Written in Steam</title>
		<description>A poet risks his heart, using verse to win the barista he adores so very deeply.</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:30:21 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A Love That Stares Back - 2&#47;26 WC 1,651</title>
		<description>They say love is blind. But what happens it allows to to see clearly for the first time?</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:50:41 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Trapped in the Basement</title>
		<description>This tells how a family got kidnapped</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:41:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title>If you Love, me why did you Leave me</title>
		<description>this tells hoe someone was not unsure of their love</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:21:07 EST</pubDate>
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<title>From my Heart, to your Hand,</title>
		<description>This tells how i want to give to you as my appreciation.</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:58:30 EST</pubDate>
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<title> If I Were President</title>
		<description>Round Four of the contest by Pass It On</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:37:50 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Captain M and the Power Leaders</title>
		<description>Magical Superheros using their power and bravery</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:29:52 EST</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.Writing.Com/main/view_item/item_id/1876283-Captain-M-and-the-Power-Leaders</link>
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<title>The Book of Love</title>
		<description>This tell how someone thinks with a mind</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:50:19 EST</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.Writing.Com/main/view_item/item_id/2354340-The-Book-of-Love</link>
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<title>My Dearest Darling</title>
		<description>This tells how much you mean to me</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:20:31 EST</pubDate>
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<title> Love Remains as Long as we Believe</title>
		<description>A fairy tale romance is never over, just hiding for perfect timing.</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:18:25 EST</pubDate>
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<title> A Place for Healing </title>
		<description>Samantha&#39;s knight in shining armor carried a controlling sword. </description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:17:26 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Great Breakfast Mix up</title>
		<description>Leo has a nice idea for breakfast&#226;or was it?</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:46:18 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Those that Have and Those that Don&#39;t</title>
		<description>A young female garment worker survives the Triangle Shirt Factory fire.</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:26:36 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Ubbi-dubbi Chef - 2&#47;7 - WC 679</title>
		<description>Skylar, once again, tries to impress her family; however, she doesn&#39;t remember it.</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:54:59 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Jonathan&#39;s Courage</title>
		<description>Jonathan has Nieman Pick disease; The courage he shows, knowing he is dying, is admirable!</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:58:15 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Tall Tales  WC 218</title>
		<description>A wife gives her husband the third degree.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:12:27 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A Knight&#226;s Invitation</title>
		<description>Sir Godfrey makes an offer to Jared&#39;s family.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:34:45 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Jimmy Red Corn</title>
		<description>A scene from the life of a crow, told in his own words, sort of. A story with a moral.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:02:36 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Celebration</title>
		<description>Scene    1</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:07:02 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Journey Through Genre: Alaska Cruise</title>
		<description>I am writing this for Journey Through Genre. A fictional travel trip on a Alaska Cruise.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:32:03 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Elisha and the Army</title>
		<description>Protection from above</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:15:01 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Late December...</title>
		<description>History repeats itself.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:23:19 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A Silver Thimble - Oma&#226;s Recipe Box</title>
		<description> Elspeth has a secret.  She has a silver thimble, but where did it come from</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:11:27 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Moth to a Flame - Word Count 718</title>
		<description>When seeing is believing, it then becomes reality.</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>My Determination</title>
		<description>This tells how I will accomplish my Goal</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:23:14 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Love Machine</title>
		<description>The ultimate love match?</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:42:03 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A Change in Life</title>
		<description>This tells how a person wants to change for the better</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:01:43 EST</pubDate>
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<title>My Eyes, are Watching God,</title>
		<description>This tells how someone watches over me.</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:02:04 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Deserted Island</title>
		<description>Friends find the unexpected during their dream vacation</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:54:01 EST</pubDate>
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