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[Edit. This is an excerpt from a draft of a novel I completed at the end of 2006. The novel had originally been published in entirety within separate posts (hence the "Part 17" designation in the page url), but I found this way of publishing unwieldy [...]
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Green sunlight sparkles through the droplets of water Jill scatters into the air. She lifts her bare foot and swings it forward. This completes step 3,796 and splash 1,772 of water along the deserted coast. She glances back to see the how many foot prints remain, [...]
Finished up a good short-story, Black, today. That, and another posting of my gleefully bad novel Three for Three.
I’ve been toying with the idea for A Long Way Home as my second novel (my first good novel) for a bit. There’s some quote some where about, “If you want to actually finish a novel, tell the world you are writing one.”
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I’ve placed the meter on my About Me page. Bookmark [...]
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I reach up to wipe away David’s tears and drop my tingly arm into the red bath water. His tears slide down my face but I feel nothing at all; they cross my lips but I taste no salt. His voice, and the entire scene, drops [...]
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I wait in the indigo darkness for my destiny in this world, and according to my predictions it should happen right… about… now! A brilliant yellow blast ignites over the fountain, sizzling away my night sight. A moment later the bell in the clock tower heralds [...]
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7/22/2005 - Written by: Jeremy Osborne, Vincent Lowe, and Brooks Graham for a 24-hour script/filming competition. (Ultimately, this script, which was basically my script, was scrapped. I still like my version of the script better than the filmed version and post it here for a third [...]
This last week has consisted of working despite my best intentions, and pretending to have short timers only to get a few projects here and there. I asked for a ghostwriter for this post. Here, courtesy of a super secret author, I sign my name to the first story ghostwritten for me.
The Bored Frog
Once [...]
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She moved to Germany on business. I think she wanted a break. She promised it would make us money. I think the she had ulterior motives. She called me by phone, prepaid by me, more infrequently. I got interrupted by important business calls. She said it’ll [...]
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I looked across my kitchen table at her, numb to everything that I once believed, ignoring all common sense informing me about what has been happening for the last half-hour. Sharee sat directly across from me holding my white ceramic senchawan inches away from her lips. [...]