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Kimberly Jackson

My NaNoWritMo Experience

For the last couple of weeks I have been participating in the NaNoWritMo challenge. The idea of writing a 50k novel in 30...
Phil Bronstein

Obama & Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- if...

ot every president in the last 35 years has considered Richard Nixon a role model. But our current POTUS seems to. When the...
Edmund Jenks

Science, facts, fraud, and "Climategate"

The AGW Myth: An increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere, especially a sustained increase great enough to cause changes in...
Anthony DiFiore

Writing Sex

(Posted from The Publeconomist, published 11/26/09) I read a great article today on LitDrift, that can be found here, and is entitled “How...
Cynthia  Carbone Ward

GRATITUDE

            Thanksgiving back then was like all of our holidays. An effort was made but the joy was missing.  As usual, the work...
Raymond Mallette

A NaNo WriMo Winner! Novel Completed in...

     This is a feeling that I really didn't expect. To have accomplished this 50,138 word novel in 24 days only makes me...
Jorge Richard Guerrero

Our Lady of Manaoag

I am not really a religion buff, but the loads of testimonies I have read about Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary...
Sambath Meas

Gratitude

I'm grateful for my father and mother who gave me life. Raising a child during the Killing Fields can't be easy.  We lived...
Sue Glasco

'Twas tne Night Before......

This afternoon I wrassled the turkey.  With Gerry's help pulling out the still frozen-in plastic ring, it is ready for the oven at...
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  • Bernice  McFadden
    Bernice L McFadden Influences: Toni Morrison Alice Walker Rita Dove J. California Cooper Ann Petry Upcoming Works: Lover Man (written under my pseudonym Geneva Holliday) June 2009 Agent(s): Andrew Stuart Publisher(s): Dutton Plume Random House Causes I Support: Hurston Wright Foundation Girls Write Now Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS)
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Ivory Madison

Democrats Eat Babies on Christmas, Institute Says

[This story originally ran in a major news outlet that shall remain nameless. Okay, I made it up in response to a story...
Red Room Well Red

Weekly Blog Topic: Halloween

"Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn, and caldron bubble." –Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1 Halloween has become many countries' most popular occasion to...

Overheard In the Red Room

"I need (books) the way arteries need blood, the way teenagers need Twitter, the way the BBC needs Helen Mirren."

-- Kyla Perry