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Pretending for love by Tegon Maus
Left to my own devices I would never have gone... never..
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Prison by Mark Lichterman
Mitchell Lipensky knew that on that, the thirteenth day of May, 1946, as he reluctantly followed five paces behind his mother and father through the playground entrance, after all but being physically dragged the nine blocks from his home to this combination Devils Island and Alcatraz, that on th..
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Profiling Panhandlers by David Arthur Walters
He was a big black fellow, about 30 years old......
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Prologue of Lamentations of a Warrior by Ms.Angeline Bandon-Bibum
PROLOGUE of Lamentations of a Warrior ..
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  Prologues and Epilogue by Mark Lichterman
Passing, the little boy turned his head, watching the old man. Tripping on the curb, he hung by his mother’s hand until she pulled him up onto the sidewalk and his own two feet.
Becoming can now also be purchased as a Kindle Ebook @ $4.95..
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Prospective 1/ Marsha/1944 by Mark Lichterman
Lying nude on the bed, his legs spread from side to side, was Manuel Berger: ‘Uncle’ Manny, and…..
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Purple Phantoms: Basketball ghosts who died early and now playing again! by Julius J.E. Thompson
This is a book based on real life and for all who loved a young person that died too early and never fulfilled their destiny or achieved their goals. I wanted to honor my former players..
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Putah (Pewter) Creek by Jackie Brooks
This is a story written by my husband Jim, of his childhood memories of a hitch-hiking adventure with his friend Tuffy, to Putah Creek...
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Queens, New York: Julie by Mark Lichterman
Well knowing from past experience what all boys want, arching her upper body backwards, Julie attempted to keep from being pulled fully into his arms, but, truly, would have had to stand a foot away in order for him not to feel the soft prod of her breasts against the blue wool of his dress tunic, a..
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R Rated!! Longitude: North 41 Degrees, 42 Minutes 018 seconds by Mark Lichterman
Warm water pleasantly streaming over her nude body, seeing through the distorted, semi-opaqueness of the shower curtain, as he came closer she saw the light hue of his flesh and the dark shade of the hair of his head and the black triangle of pubic hair...
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Racism in Modern America by Chris Belec-Joanet-Joannette
The subject of racism is a continual controversial issue within everyday society. Racial equality is such a new concept within our lives that many raw emotions still cloud many people's judgment.
Longstanding hatred and hurt feelings eat away at the good intentions and bold efforts that the..
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Radium Girls Memorial by Chris Belec-Joanet-Joannette
Radium Girls Full Story posted by Chris L. Joanet, VP Organizing (Chicago CLUW)
Upper left [CLICK "VIEW this STORY"] "Radium Girls Memorial,"
Click on "VIEW this STORY" above to read CLUW letter of participation.
Read the full story of the "Radium Girls" Full Story below.....
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Rainy Day by Debra Purdy Kong
This story has appeared in Written Word and Swimming Kangaroo. ..
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Raquette Lake by John DeDakis
Two women. Two campsites. Two perspectives...
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Real Italian Food by Mark Lichterman
Careful, rough language here
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“This here’s…” pointing the club at Mitchell, “my oldest pal. Mitch’n’me, we went to school together during the war an’ I didn’t invite him here so’s you two assholes could beat the shit outta him! Now,” pointing the club ..
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Reborn by Rebecca McKeehan
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill)..
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Recall by Mark Lichterman
As for as Elizabeth: Knowing there would be no reason to come in contact with her other than being cordial as he would any fellow Transco employee at company meetings— he promised himself to remain distantly aloof.
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Red Handed by Dawn Anderson
A piece of flash fiction that was recently published by Still Crazy Literary Magazine..
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Reflection by Mark Lichterman
At this moment a humanistic transformation coming to Marsha Goldman Lipensky… Or, if you will, a sexual epiphany. Why not? She thought...
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Rejection Slips by Jan Richards
When writers get rejection slips...
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Remedy for This Crazy World by Adele Gill
I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to grow a little weary, and less dismayed by what is transpiring daily in this country--even numb. Perhaps I am finally coming to fully realize that it is a “God-job” to fix our country, and that praying and asking for His help is paramount to maintaining our..
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reTIRED by James Boyle
a man realizes his opinion of his wife..
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Retro 11: 1949/Gina by Mark Lichterman
CAREFUL "R" RATED
Waiting for recognition, the young woman still believed the historically accepted—but in his case, erroneous—fact that a guy is ‘never’ supposed to forget his ‘first piece of ass’...
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Retro 13 & The Hole by Mark Lichterman
The one time the father and son had done anything together as father and son was on a Sunday in 1944 when Mitchell was nine years old when, after being harangued by his wife, to prove to his wife that he could be as good a father as any man, Walter had taken his son to…...
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Retrospective 13 & The Hole by Mark Lichterman
The one time the father and son had done anything together as father and son was on a Sunday in 1944 when Mitchell was nine years old when, after being harangued by his wife, to prove to his wife that he could be as good a father as any man, Walter had taken his son to…...
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Retrospective 16: Irving Glassman.. R Rated by Mark Lichterman
Knowing her husband would not leave the grill for at least an hour and a half and that she was, at the most, a fifteen-minute cab ride from the Lake Shore Drive bachelor apartment of her latest ‘friend’, the ‘rumored’ homosexual owner of a small string of beauty shops, Rhea…..
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Reunion 1: Allure by Mark Lichterman
Considering himself expert in these matters, noting she was not wearing a bra, he saw the natural flow of her breasts and, for the split second it took him to notice—..
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Reunion 2: Talking by Mark Lichterman
Unlike then; now Mitchell did not touch her. Mitchell did not kiss her or press his body closely upon her body and Mitchell most certainly did not say, ‘Marcie, I love you’...
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Reunion 3: A Point in Time by Mark Lichterman
Turning from the pinball machine, she looked at Mitchell.
The girl was tall and thin. She had a sharp widow’s peak and short, tightly curled black hair. Darkly tanned, her complexion was perfectly smooth. Her eyes were dark brown and, having a slightly long nose, reminding Mitchell of a pi..
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Reunion 4: “Sun Spot” by Mark Lichterman
Rubbing her fingers across her eyes before turning around and, maybe, were it not so bright, or maybe, were he just a bit more observant, Mitchell would have noticed that her eyes were red and glassy...
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Review of Abducted Alien by Robin by Chris Belec-Joanet-Joannette
A review from a reader of my book, "Abducted Alien-A True Story of My Life and United States Immigration."..
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Rhea's Secret by Mark Lichterman
Morris Jacobson was a man who had ‘connections’ throughout city hall, including the ‘Cook County Assessors Office’, of which he’d taken monetary advantage for himself, his friends, members of his family and also Rhea Goldman because the way Morrie repaid Rhea for her ‘friendship’ ..
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Ride in the Moonlight by Doug Hiser
Riding an ostrich?..
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Ring of Fire by Laura Spinella
Here's my most recent blog. Thoughts on American Idol and writing. They have more in common than you think! www.lauraspinella.net..
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Rockaway Beach: 1953 by Mark Lichterman
Her head beneath his chin, Mitchell smelled the salt tang of the young woman’s hair that mixed with the floral odor of her cologne. Feeling Elsa’s all-but-bare flesh against his bare flesh, Mitchell suddenly realized just how lonely he’d been and how long it had been since he had held a girl this cl..
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Rockaway/Changing Emotions by Mark Lichterman
As though the emotion of hatred is stronger than the emotion of love, the preponderance of Mitchell Lipensky’s hatred of Warrant Officer Floyd Richard Ewing began to outweigh his love of Susan and his thoughts of her began to dwindle… And in time, amazingly, even forgetting her phone number—except f..
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Rocking Horse Tragedy by David Arthur Walters
From the Horrors of Acid..
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Rubber Bands & Paperclips by Mark Lichterman
Also, he had begun to get the impression that a couple of the guys were beginning to warm up to him and that one of these days he’d feel the anxiously awaited sting of a paper clip ricocheting off his skull...
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Rubbernecking at Moe's Diner by David Schwinghammer
Due to unhappiness in his marriage, a man spends most of his time at a diner, where he meets a young runaway girl.
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Rubidoux Meyers: 1956 by Mark Lichterman
Swabbing a broken yoke with a bit of bagel, “They did ‘me’ a favor by sending me to Addressograph! How the hell do you figure that?”
“First off, Lipensky, you’ve had the ‘great’ pleasure and ‘wonderful’ privilege of meeting someone as unique as me.” Jabbing his forefinger into his chest...
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Ruby Red by CHANTLER ~
Ruby Red is a book about a young teenage girl who grows up without a mother figure. She use excuses for every problem she causes. Ultimately karma kicks her in the behind when she is kidnapped and raped for refusing to say no to a stranger. Ruby struggles to find her true identity and learns that th..
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Ruby's Roots & Retrospective 6 by Mark Lichterman
Knowing only what he had learned of the south in school. To a twentieth century boy from Chicago, slavery—even thought history books said it had existed—was a phenomenon that was so far removed from Mitchell’s mind that it was almost an incomprehensible fact...
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Ruby: Prospective 2 by Mark Lichterman
Once again an unfortunate fact of life occurred when a person or people whom we truly believed would never be gone from our life, when, due to time and/or distance, and/or when that thread of ‘something in common’ breaks, we discover that that friend or friends are forever gone from our life...
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Sadness wrapped in laughter - by: Linda Law by Linda Law
LIttle tidbits collected during my life over the years...sad but funny too....
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Salmon and Bullheads by Lucille Bellucci
About partnerships..
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Same City, Different World by Mark Lichterman
“Well, I ain’t had much opportunity till now, but what in the hell’s this busted ring got to do with understandin’ women?”
“Look, Gina’s had the hots for you ever since I told her ’bout you an’ it ain’t gonna be a problem to get her into the sack, but I want everything to go right, an’ you ..
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Sammy, Abbie & Secrets by Mark Lichterman
For a guy with the reputation of ‘never’ being able to keep a secret, it hadn’t been easy because on three separate occasions Marsha had rolled onto him and tickled him to death… But he still didn’t tell...
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Schrodinger's Paradox by Carol Rzadkiewicz
When it comes to relationships, the odds of survival are one in two, and those are pretty lousy odds. ..
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Scotch And Guns by Mark Lichterman
Arriving sooner than she’d expected. Looking the complete opposite of what a man in his profession typically might look like, the man was thin and short: about 5' 6". He wore khaki slacks and a black T-shirt that accentuated the bulging muscles of his chest and arms. The second man, more typically ..
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Screwed by the Skew by E Phillips
[image: Ray Dalio]..
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