Tag: storytelling
member name: Greg Schiller
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December 14, 2009 07:18 PM EST --
Raise your hand if you have ever changed a flat tire.
Okay, put your hands down.
Now, who has waged that battle with the emergency equipment found in the typical trunk?
Okay, you can stop . . .
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May 01, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
Critique welcome
Somewhere East of Elko Nevada, Allen and Meg turned off the interstate to glide under the concrete canopy of a Philips 66 station. The canopy cast a deep blue pool . . .
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October 25, 2006 05:20 PM EDT --
A short snippet from a work in process:
An August sun rose reluctantly through a blue haze well to the north of east above Nina Street. Sleep clung heavily to all living things as un-living . . .
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October 22, 2006 11:35 AM EDT --
Morning is feeding time for traffic in Australia. With the fresh light of a rising sun behind them, vehicles in downtown Sydney prowl for pedestrians. One rarely sees the old, the young or the weak . . .
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December 14, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
The forecast says, "cold with snow", it's the sort of . . .
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January 25, 2007 12:51 PM EST --
Magic gripped Sara so hard she loosened hold of life. After a delirious evening, fleeing up the driveway, she plowed forward the garage clutter to conceal her car with its splayed chrome and spider webbed . . .
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February 01, 2007 01:58 PM EST --
Two old guys wearing the same fashion they wore for decades held down opposite ends of a bench in the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport; neither appeared headed anywhere. They eyed the human herd passing by, and . . .
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February 27, 2007 04:00 PM EST --
Most nights, they slept on silk over stone. Silk spoke of power and affluence; the stone, a reminder of the hard ground they would sleep on when fate tore these things away. They did this to honor tradition, . . .
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August 17, 2007 03:04 PM EDT --
"What would you do if you didn't have me to take care of you?" She was already on him, extending a plate of chocolate-chip cookies.
Stomping the slush off his boots, Earl . . .
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November 19, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
" What makes some of us tightwads and others spendthrifts?”
I still don't know, but American RadioWorks explored the question in a documentary titled Design . . .
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October 14, 2007 12:44 PM EDT --
None of this is my fault.
FOXNEWS is calling it “The Payday Massacre”, like I'm some kind of gangster killer. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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April 14, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
I have been told by experts in such matters that on a golf course I am a clear and present danger to all living things as well as any inanimate object within the range of half a mile.
Much of this . . .
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February 17, 2007 12:48 PM EST --
My wife is out of town for a month. She calls daily from the warmth of Florida to remind me that she is wearing short sleeves outdoors while I am bundled in a heavy sweater indoors.
Here in Minnesota, . . .
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November 05, 2007 03:25 PM EST --
Have you heard of "deer cams"?
Apparently, the antics of Paris, Lindsey and Britney are not enough, these days even wildlife is posing for cameras. Those of you who prudently . . .
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February 11, 2008 12:02 AM EST --
My brother is looking for a house. A month ago, he handed me a picture of a beautifully restored Victorian for $850,000. He teased "Should I buy it?"
It was the house we grew up . . .
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March 06, 2007 06:39 PM EST --
Friday night brought warm winter weather. The pavement was dry and white with salt as cars and vans queued up in front of the night deposit box at the First Citizen's Bank. Something was causing a . . .
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April 08, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
Sgt. Schultz pulled his squad behind a Volkswagen Beetle blocking the south bound lane of River Road. The little white car puttered at an uneasy idle, its air-cooled engine rattling a loose . . .
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April 08, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
Schultz glanced through the front door window to check things out before knocking. Just inside, the three-speed bicycle he had expected to see at the accident scene rested against the wooden rails of a . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
The resemblance was too close for coincidence, but it was not perfect.
Katie parted her hair on the left; the victim on the right. Katie was left handed and wore her watch on the right; the victim's . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:23 PM EDT --
Schultz spoke with the business editor at the Tribune to get some background on Control Data Corporation. He learned that the company appeared from behind the cloak of a secret Navy project during World . . .
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