Tag: storytelling
member name: Greg Schiller
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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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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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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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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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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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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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May 03, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
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In a canyon west of Boulder Colorado, Meg eased Allen's Volkswagen down a rutted road dogging the course of a noisy brook. The lane crossed and re-crossed the stream . . .
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May 06, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
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For Meg, The Black Hills were more than mountains. She carried a worn, marked-up copy of "Black Elk Speaks" in support of her belief that . . .
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June 08, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
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You look like you have been up all night.
Yeah, we had the break-up fight. Marcy is gone.
I am really sorry to hear that. She was a nice kid.
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September 07, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Critique (always) welcome
Jane stalked the commons pond, muttering to herself. She fumed, and cursed over the self-assigned task of rousting geese with a stick. No one else would do . . .
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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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November 12, 2007 11:40 AM EST --
Religion in America is in steep decline, and I know why. Simply gaze upon any church built after 1950, and you will know why too. Modern churches are ugly as sin, and so too is modern religion.
In . . .
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March 17, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
Bud asked Irene, "If gambling is so fun, how come no one here is smiling?"
She didn't have an answer for that, neither did she have an excuse for dragging him into Ceasar's Palace. . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:13 AM EDT --
In January of 1976, Jimmy Carter smiled his way toward the presidency, I worked third shift in a steel foundry, a communist army occupied Saigon and the coldest winter in decades gripped the Twin Cities. . . .
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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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June 30, 2008 06:23 AM EDT --
Yesterday, I broke new ground for workers rights.
It occurred near the coffee machine where I did a little dance with a new employee. I was so preoccupied with the "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS" postings . . .
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November 21, 2007 06:28 PM EST --
Once upon a time, a wealthy couple lived in a quaint Tudor mansion on the better side of Beverly Hills with their only child, a daughter, upon whom they showered love and the best of everything.
As . . .
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December 10, 2007 06:22 AM EST --
San Francisco – The 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals remains mute over banning all use of language in official documents.
“ We see this as a victory” said Ms. Todavía . . .
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February 25, 2008 12:04 AM EST --
I pondered reincarnation the other day.
The reason was simple, I am the notorious procrastinator who neglected to empty the cat box on garbage day. Now both my wife and cat are making . . .
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