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Aug.31.2011
For me the dark nature of noir fiction fills a need. Perhaps it is the simple idea that the information age, filled with digital platforms that take you wherever you desire nearly instantaneously, allows too much "light" into life. It erases much of the mystery, the challenge, until we are left...
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Nov.26.2010
Once, I saw a photograph of a painting of the Vietnam War Memorial Wall in Washington DC. A small boy stood with his hand pressed against a name etched into the black stone. From behind the wall, a phantom-like soldier in Jungle fatigues, M-16 in one hand, pressed his hand against the wall so his...
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Oct.06.2010
Sheets of rain blanketed sounds of our movements, the enemy's too. Jimmy Herbert crowded into the narrow shelter I'd located, the remains of an ancient half-stone farm outbuilding somewhere deep in the French countryside. The shack-sized structure smelled of dried animal dung, straw, now dampened...
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Jul.30.2010
Wildflower meadows combed the walls of the valley, flowing to meet the meandering river below. No trail marked my passage, no bent green blade, fallen leaf, or barked limb. Birds toiled their world, feeding fledglings, mending nests, bathing in dusty earth. If they noticed my presence, I did not...
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Jul.14.2010
Strong wind carried scents of Queen Anne's Lace, layered over Rosemary. I was a boy in search, but not aware if I'd discover something worthy. I just knew the search was my quest.
Each day I asked myself why, but could not always put words behind it so why hung as a suspended moment that enticed...
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May.29.2010
Our Army Nurses.
Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the Noble Women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.Complied by Mary A. Gardner Holland.1895
The following was written by Nurse Matilda E. Morris.
EARLY in the war I conceived the...
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May.28.2010
Memorial Day Oration.
MAY 30, 1913Delivered byJames Shera Montgomery, D. D.(PASTOR METROPOLITAN M. E. CHURCH)WASHINGTON, D. C.
At
Arlington Cemetery, Virginia
PRINTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THE POTOMAC. G. A. R.
FOREWORD.
"O Beautiful ! my Country ! ours once moreSmoothing thy gold of war-...
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May.27.2010
KNOW THE SYMPTOMS......PLEASE READ!
Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.Somehow I feel better even though I have it!!
Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in...
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May.04.2010
"ATTENTION EVERYONE--There's a site called Spokeo.com - a new online phone book w/personal information: everything from pics you've posted on FB or web, your approx credit score, home value, income, age, etc. You can remove yourself by first searching for yourself on their site to find the URL...
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Apr.28.2010
Several weeks ago, I published the article "Faith is not Religion." When I did, I felt somewhat reluctant, not wanting to wade into the religious quagmire spiraling through American politics. If you have not read the article, you might want to read it before finishing this since I feel no...
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Apr.19.2010
At the age of fourteen, I sat down on a rainy afternoon, bored and “trapped” inside. My mother, an avid reader, kept many books on the shelves in our recreation room. The shelving wrapped around, or up one side, over and down the other side of an upright piano that once belonged to her grandmother...
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Apr.02.2010
Before I comment on their comments, here are the Amazon.com Expert Reviewers opinions regarding my novel "Drop Dead Cadillac."
Feedback: Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Reviews
ABNA Expert Reviewer
What is the strongest aspect of this excerpt?
The strongest aspect of this excerpt in my...
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Mar.12.2010
Here is a method to fix what is wrong with federal elections in America without term limits or campaign finance laws.
Using computer generated randomization, select a state to elect the United States Senators and Congressional Representatives from a different state. Let me cite an example.
The...
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Feb.27.2010
It's a first step and I'll take it!
My novel "Drop Dead Cadillac" is one of a 1000 general fiction novels in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest to move into the second round of editorial reviews.
Since the total number of entries for the contest is 10,000, I'm...
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Feb.20.2010
How-to-enjoy that first touchy-feely date.
By now, you must be breathless with anticipation. Relentlessly, you tracked him down, watched, and waited for him at midnight of the last six full moons, until finally you saw him. Your heart raced as he shambled across the uncut lawn, dodging tilted and...
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I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
Margaret Atwood”
—The Handmaid's Tale
About Larry
Born, raised and educated in New York, Larry Schliessmann is a 2004 winner of the L Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, an Ezine Articles Platinum author, and a 2009 winner of the “National Novel Writing Month.”
He writes the blog “Larry Schliessmann’s...
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