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A Woman Scorned
An old man is visited by the spirit of his dead wife
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Creature Teacher
Your new sub turns out to be much stranger than you expected.
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Grandpa's Road
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My first road trip was filled with awe and learning
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Two Days on a Train
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A young man boards a train bound for history.
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Naughty or Nice?
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Dialogue 500. Santa interviews Rufus.
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The Paradise Cigar Lounge
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Prompt: Character: Inspector | Item: The smell that brings it all back.
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An Alternate Gig
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Tom Turkey and his mentor plot survival
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Scarecrow foils an attempt to change the vote count
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Tales to Tell
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Conversation with a ghost. Dialogue only. <500 words
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Horse Dreams
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A study in expressing color through an item of Digital Art
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Birthday Wishes
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Sam deals with the social requirements of birthdays
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What some folks mean by a "Cookout" Word count: 740
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Charlotte! Really?
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Rqmt: < 500 words; all dialogue Prompt: Talking with a man in the park who has Covid-19
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No One Cheats in Mrs. Whitley's Class
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Have you pulled any great pranks?
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The Messenger
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Christmas 1915 would be a special time in the world of chocolate.
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Charlie Celebrates
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Fireworks: the way to celebrate anything, anywhere.
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Above the Fold
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Requirements: <700 words, no dialogue or inner dialogue. Prompt: Heat. Word count: 688
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An Interview with Benjamin Franklin
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Travel back in time and meet ...?
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Recognize Me?
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Return Home
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Return for revenge
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The World's Foremost Authority
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A takeoff on Professor Irwin Corey -- A private conversation between you and your doctor.
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The nth Root
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A true story about a military buddy, fictionalized just a bit.
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Treasure in the Closet
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To celebrate "Clean Out Your Closet Week"
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Soda Bread
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This Irish treat can mean big trouble for a Leprechaun.
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Wobbles McWhiskey
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So, you want to know about my last encounter with one of the wee people?
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Across a Crowded Room
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Recalling a First Love
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Chloride
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A vacation at an abandoned mining town
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New Clothes
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The Emporer encounters a constable
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Five Lessons
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Author wrestles with the 'Fiction vs Nonfiction' question
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Guilty
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Convicted Witch surveys her fellow citizens
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Dreams Are Made of This
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Thoughts on dreams and dreaming
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Halloween at Stonehenge
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Three Antiquities students encounter the spirits at Stonehenge
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Last Minutes
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What do you see standing at the end?
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An Unusual Groundhog Day
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Things got Topsy Turvy in Punxsutawney this year
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What Happened Next?
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A mini-drama of not more than 350 words for Write to Done
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Sounds from My Youth
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Capturing some sounds I grew up with for the Writer's Cramp competition.
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Heckle and Jeckle
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Heckle and Jeckle discuss the Flash Fiction Writing Contest
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