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Home Again 12: Sunset by Mark Lichterman
Their table faced south, towards the prestigious Chicago Yacht Club where everyone in the dining room was properly dressed for dinner.
“My, God, Mitchell, it’s so beautiful!”
Tickled that she was enjoying this as much as he, “Yeah, you sure are.”
He ordered prime rib, and Marsh..
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Home Again 13: Hot Dogs by Mark Lichterman
But, as the urge to touch and hold her breast had been all but over- powering the night before and earlier today, now, oddly, the feel of Marsha’s bare breast within the palm of his hand was…? To Mitchell Lipensky, the feel of Marsha Goldman’s breast, at least at that moment, was holy and the thum..
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Home Again 2: Marsha by Mark Lichterman
Turning in the booth, looking over her shoulder…
Deeply tanned from the spring patrol and hours of shirtless work parties in the hot, Atlantic sun, he wore a white sport shirt opened three buttons down, worn Levi’s, and his old, white-buck shoes.
…Mitchell! Snapping her body for..
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Home Again 3: Marsha by Mark Lichterman
Goodman, Goldstein, Goldman, or Golden. God, do you have any idea of how many Goodmans, Goldsteins, Goldmans, or Goldens there are in the Chicago telephone book?”
Attempting to hide her pleasure,
“You tried calling me, huh, really?”
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Home Again 4: Marsha by Mark Lichterman
Walking back to the street, purposely falling behind again, “Marcie, I’m sailing to Michigan City with my dad and Larry tomorrow and won’t be back till Saturday evening and I’ve been thinking that, if you don’t mind being picked up by three really scroungey guys, what if we pick you up on our way ..
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Home Again 5: Friendship by Mark Lichterman
“You’ll call me when you get in on Saturday, so I’ll know when to expect you? Any idea when?”
“Depends on the wind. Probably about… oh, no later than two or three. But I’ll tell you something, Marcie; I won’t need a phone because as soon as I see Chicago’s skyline I’ll stand on the bow and y..
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Home Again 7: The Call by Mark Lichterman
Disappointed because Mitchell hadn’t called yesterday; having no positive idea of when he might call today, Marsha planned on going to work, then, at about one o’clock, telling her boss that she had cramps… Being a shop that catered to women, and was managed by a woman, even though it was Saturda..
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Home Again 8: Family by Mark Lichterman
A part of Walter, though—an ever growing part of Walter—was secretly glad that Myra spent so little time on the boat because Friendship had become his domain, where he could be exactly what, and who he wanted to be: Skipper.
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Home Again 9: Hands by Mark Lichterman
“Company?” Looking about, “Who’s company?”
“Marsha!” Going along with him, pointing to her, “Your son brought a girl home… Remember?”
“You’re not company, are you?”
“Well, Mister Lipensky, I sure don’t feel like company.”
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Home Again1: Marsha by Mark Lichterman
Standing, she unhooked her bra, pushed down and stepped out of her panties and, using the toes of her right foot, lifted them off the carpeted floor and dropped her underpants, along with her socks, into the hamper...
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Home Again6: Missed Calls by Mark Lichterman
Mitchell had spent a good part of the time on the trip to Michigan City thinking about Marsha, and was not too sure if, as he’d wishfully imagined, she liked him as much as he hoped, or if by now she had cooled off and the night before had only been a romantic night thing. The more he’d thought ab..
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Homecoming by Ames Swartsfager
Jackson, an old man, returns to the place where he was raised. Things have changed, but not his memories...
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Hoodlums by Mark Lichterman
Careful, rough Language here ______________________________
Outside, standing a moment, he stretched. Noticing a nail and staple-studded telephone pole, he walked to it, leaned against it a moment, then, with his feet in the gutter, sitting on the curb, Mitchell rested his back against th..
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House Of The Nobles by NEILSON WILLIAMS
Leave your sins outside the gate...
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How would you like to be a character in my new novel: Stormy Winds by Julius J.E. Thompson
This will be your moment of fame!..
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Human Perceptions by Mark Lichterman
“Sometimes...” Marsha said, “...I feel very lonely for you and just want to be held by you. But whenever I open myself to you, you always take it as a sign that I’m asking for sex and then you touch my tits or ass and before you know it I’m fighting you off. Or trying to pretend that I’m enjoying it..
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Hurricane: Caution R Rated by Mark Lichterman
The woman was naked! And as she ran, bouncing up and down and from side to side, the woman’s pendulous breasts slapped against her shoulders and… Bringing the binoculars to behind her, to the man, “Holy shit! The man was naked, too, and there was nothing on him that bounced because the man had a jut..
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I'm Diabetic by Mark Lichterman
“You’d be able to do that?” Putting his arms about Marsha, about to hug her, but fearful of being too close and possibly having her smell something of Elizabeth. Backing away a bit, “You’d be able to do that? To give yourself a needle?”..
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Ice, to Have or Have Not by Harold Hester
There are some things a guy just does not have high on his priority list... or even have thought about. Frank learned this lesson the Hard way...
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Illegal Aliens Explained in English by Karen Gallo
I did not write this but I believe every word....
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Imagining by Mark Lichterman
“Today, April twelfth, nineteen-hundred, forty-five, our president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died suddenly of a massive cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia.”
A "Becoming" excerpt..
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Important Political Announcement by Ron Karcz
I wrote a short story about "Ugly Americans" recently. I received some wonderful reviews. One came from a wonderful lady named Sherry. She said, "Hey Ron, don't hold back. Why don't you tell us what you really think?" Well, for Sherry and the rest of the world, here's the "no hold back" versio..
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From a planned collection of stories about a family farm...
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In The Eyes of God 1 by Mark Lichterman
Throughout the long drive from Midway Airport to downtown Chicago, he’d been waiting for Marsha to say something, but she hadn’t, so, “So where’d you make the reservation?”
Turning from her place on the front seat, “Reservation?” Rhea looked at her daughter.
Thinking, Oh, God! Marsh..
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In The Eyes of God 2 by Mark Lichterman
“Oh, yeah!” Going to the den, returning with a camera, posing everyone around Marsha and Mitchell, Walter took a number of pictures at the table, then in the living room… “Marsha,” sitting cross-legged on the floor surrounded by Roger, a very pregnant Brenda, and Larry and Morton, “hold your hand..
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In The Eyes of God 3: Discovery by Mark Lichterman
Careful! Very descriptive humanistically sexual scene here.
(A "Becoming" Excerpt)
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In The Eyes of God 4: Ultimatum by Mark Lichterman
Careful! Very descriptive humanistically sexual scene here.
(A "Becoming" Excerpt)..
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In The Eyes of God 5: Ripples by Mark Lichterman
Anxious, oh, yes! Fearful, yes indeed! Wanting to, oh, yeah! Not thinking of the fact that Mitchell was not using a prophylactic, either, nor how she was going to explain a bloody sheet if she should bleed when her hymen ruptured…
Positioned above her…
Taking hold of him, “Mitchie, ple..
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In the Name of Public Health by Patrick Sills
As the hysteria concerning the dangers of environmental tobacco smoke continues to swell, especially in light of Surgeon General Richard Carmona's claim that "there is now no question" of the health hazards, I have written a short story that suggests a dark future for those who smoke. Evidence that..
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In The Real World by Mark Lichterman
Walter had been envious—actually jealous—of his son and when Marsha and Mitchell decided on marriage he was finally able to admit—only in the deepest recess of his mind, though—his love of Marsha… But it was— so he convinced himself—the love of a father for a child. But deep down he knew this love w..
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In The Whyet House by Mark Lichterman
Putting the pipe in a leather-bound ashtray, leaning forward, folding his hands on the desk, his voice taking a tone of severity, “America is a Christian country,” he’d said. “This is a Christian school, and if you do not want your son to learn the true belief and teachings of our Lord Jesus Chri..
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Ina Dorfmann Rated R for sexual content by Mark Lichterman
Mitchell’s eyes went from her rather homely face to the creamy swellings at the top of her bathing suit, to… 'Oh, God'! Ina’s soft-looking, delectable breasts and even then, in the middle of the day. Even there, on this crowded beach — his lower brain mentally shifting into high gear —
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Integration Dawning by Mark Lichterman
“Mitch...” sighing, “...that’s what I mean by don’t you ‘ever’ read a god-damned newspaper? ‘No’! ‘Governor Faubus’ — that son-of-a-bitch, ‘he’ called out the ‘Arkansas National Guard’ to keep our kids out of his f…” glancing at Marsha, “...god-damned school, and Ike’s threatened to send federal tro..
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Interiew with a Ne'er do-well by Morgan McFinn
Interview with a Ne'er do-well..
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Intervention by Dennis McKay
A gifted young writer changes the lives of two of high school teachers. ..
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Into A Different World by Mark Lichterman
“Ya know what, ‘Al’?” Hawk Nose said. “Mitchell’s a ‘kike’ name! I think this here guy’s a kike.” Poking his finger into his chest, “Are ya, ‘Mitchell’? Are ya a ‘Jew’, Mitchell? A ‘kike’, Mitchell? A fuckin’, ‘sheeny’ bastard, Mitchell?” Emphasizing each question with increasingly hard, sharp digs ..
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 Invisible Birthmarks by Michael Anka
Excerpt from my third completed thriller novel..
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IS THIS FAIR ? by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com
IS THERE A LAWYER OUT THERE
TO GIVE ME ADVICE ?..
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It Was A Sunny Day by Mark Lichterman
One month ‘into’ her twenty-ninth year, and one month ‘from’ the anniversary of the eighth year of her marriage, Marsha Lipensky, by her own design and desire— with a bit of help from her husband, is the mother of three children...
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Joy Of Sex by Mark Lichterman
“…and when the sperm reaches the female’s egg it fertilizes it, and…”
"Like when Joe puts stuff on the grass to make it grow?”
“Well, I suppose it’s like that, in a way.” Waiting for another question, getting none, Walter went on. “Anyway, after the male’s sperm fertilizes the fe..
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Just Don't Help OnlyThe Kids At Christmas ... (For Rose Rideout) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Plenty of poor or struggling adults can use a helping hand, too: the elderly, the disabled, the Veterans, the homeless.
Rose Rideout's poem, "Take A Little Time To Spread A Little Christmas Cheer" inspired this story; this is why I am dedicating the story to her.
This hits too cl..
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Just Passing By by Wayne Spitzer
A harried New Yorker finds an unlikely companion in the liminal space between subway cars...
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Karen Rosenberg by Mark Lichterman
And as hough having to prove his worth to his ‘mother figure’ girlfriend, ‘Brucie’— as Peaches called him, harassed Mitchell with superfluous, stupid questions that even under the best of conditions would fluster all but the absolute coolest of salesmen—which sure as hell wasn’t Mitchell Lipensky, ‘..
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Karibu Books Book Signing by Sylvia Beverly
Ms. Sylvia Dianne Beverly "Ladi Di" will conduct a book signing, for her book entitled: “Forever In Your Eyes,” on August 10, 2007 at Karibu Books Prince George’s Plaza located at 3500 East-West Highway Hyattsville, MD 20782 at 6:30pm. The event is free and open to the public...
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Karla by James Marry
Karla is the character study of a woman whose life has eroded like beach sand. She blames her men and her children though every reader comes to a different conclusion based upon their own lives. Tasty and poetic, the story may ring some grains of memory for men and women alike...
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Kid Gloves by Eva Pasco
An unassuming hero.....
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KILLEM with the WORD by NEILSON WILLIAMS
The TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH..
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Killer Walk by Samuel Southwell
Shawn stared at the woman he loved laying in the heap of blood. Lightning flashed outside the broken window. The glass shattered on the floor behind him. He still held the gun in his hand. Smoke seeped out the muzzle like a smokestack.
“Damn it , Kate. I begged you not to run from me.” Shawn..
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Kindness Multiplied by Rosalie Heart
An airport was the scene of anonymous kindness multiplied by two...
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Kindness: Does Motivation Matter? by Adele Gill
When we say negative or unkind words to others, words that hurt, we need to know that others will act in kind. Sadly, when we hurt others there can be a domino effect. That is how we have come to understand that ‘hurting people hurt people.’ ..
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