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Seabucthorn is Here in the US - Health by Karen Gallo
Tashi 2005 ! Whole nutrition for the family and pets. Personally, after one week I am energized! and ... feeling great. I believe, I found the missing link to better nutrition. It is a whole food in a juice form from one atom-bomb berry. This is not a punch made from a r..
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Secret Channel&Retro 14 by Mark Lichterman
Wearing his snazziest ‘Robert Hall’ sports jacket and coolest tie, carrying his art portfolio—so he’d look the picture of a ‘Michigan Avenue’ Ad Exec—he went into ‘Chauncey’s’, a Michigan Avenue ‘watering hole’ catering to the downtown, after work crowd of advertising and allied field ‘hotshots’...
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Secret Squadron Atomic Ring by Mark Lichterman
Sunlight streaming through the plate glass door reflected on its multifaceted, diamond-like, clear plastic dome. Embossed in the self-adjusting, “one size fits all” gold plated tin ring, around the dome, was a clock face with both hands straight up, at twelve o’clock. A "Becoming" excerpt..
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Secret Weapons by Mark Lichterman
The last time Marsha Lipensky had felt the need to make love to her husband had been thirteen months earlier, when on the early morning of 1/1/62, after watching three stag films— dirty movies, she had rushed her husband from their neighbours home to their bedroom where she all but sexually attacked..
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Seesaw: Love/Hate 2 of 7 by Mark Lichterman
Shocked! Thinking, she hit me! Holding his temper. Not wanting to become physical. “Yeah, okay, Marsha,” rubbing his cheek, “but it’s not only for you! He’s my son, too, you know!” Lowering his voice, bending over the crib, feeling the diaper, “hi, Mikey.” But as he began to unpin the urine-drenched..
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Seesaw: Love/Hate 3 of 7 by Mark Lichterman
“We had a terrible fight last night…” The combination of the earlier pill and the two she’d taken at 2:43 having left Marsha in a bit of a daze, “and I, uh…” also embarrassed because it was she that had first slapped, then attempted to punch Mitchell. “…hit…” Reclining—hearing what she wan..
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Seesaw: Love/Hate 4 of 7 by Mark Lichterman
Careful: Some coarse language and one sexual scene. *************************************** The imaginary chasm of a hundred miles that had separated the husband from the wife the night before, on this night felt as distant as the Atlantic to the Pacific. Though Mitchell was actually less th..
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Seesaw: Love/Hate 5of 7 by Mark Lichterman
“Marsha, you’re my client, not your mother! What you tell me is strictly between you and me! Tell me the truth! Did Mitchell really hit you?”..
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Seesaw: Love/Hate 7 of 7 ...R Rated by Mark Lichterman
On that first night of their first marriage—the only night they could be together before Mitchell had to return to New York and U.S.C.G. Halfmoon—Marsha issued the ultimatum that unless they were allowed to spend the night together, one atop the blanket and—oh, yeah, you bet they would—one beneat..
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Seesaw: Love/Hate: 1 of 7 by Mark Lichterman
Sitting alongside her daughter, “I wouldn’t let her get away with it!” lighting a cigarette. “The nerve of your mother-in-law! Telling you, ‘you can’t be that sick’! How the hell would she know how sick you are? If I were you, Marsha, I’d tell her to go to hell! Better yet, I’d tell that gutless hus..
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Seesaw: Retrospective; R Rated by Mark Lichterman
Kissing her again, he unbuttoned the three buttons of her coat, and, as though to prolong the ecstasy and the once-in-a-lifetime excitement of seeing Marsha’s—his wife’s—bare breasts for the very first time, he moved slowly, teasing himself into a near unbearable state of arousal. ..
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Seesaw:Love/Hate 6 of 7 by Mark Lichterman
On the night of June twenty, feeling the hopelessness and finality of the situation like a lead weight in the pit of his stomach, thinking, at least they’ll set some sort of a schedule for me to see Mikey, Mitchell Lipensky attempted to sleep. As on the other side of the hundred-mile chasm—less than..
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Selling Time by Mark Lichterman
Twenty minutes later, Mitchell Lipensky left ‘Hook’N’Worm’ bait/tackle/hunting shop with a completed Production Information Form and a signed contract for $862.50 with, ‘unless notified in writing’, an automatic renewal for the following month also...
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Sensory Equivalent” Careful! R Rated by Mark Lichterman
The command traveled from his upper brain to his lower brain—although, actually, by this time as his upper brain had taken residence alongside his lower brain, Mitchell no longer had an upper brain, and the entire situation—..
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Sergeant Raphael Martinez (PG rated for language) by Mark Lichterman
At precisely 0730 hours on the hot, muggy morning of Saturday, July 27, 1950, the drivers of a convoy of thirty-seven khaki and field-green camouflaged troop carriers turned the keys and stepped on the accelerators starting their Ford and International Harvester motors amidst a roaring and spewing o..
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View Photo of Service to the Blue Read excerpt from Service to the Blue Service to the Blue by James Marry
Some missions never really end until their finished. A human pack rat picks up explosives on a dead space station and almost gets caught.Almost? Another view of the future with Shut Up in mind...
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Settling Disputes by Adele Gill
Regardless of the outcome of the pursuit of Truth, it is necessary for people of good will and conscience to stand up for, and peacefully accept, what is good and right and true without violence or judgement of opposition—even while popular opinion may say otherwise. For the destiny and trust of all..
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Sexual Arousal; Caution R rated by Mark Lichterman
Mid twentieth century novels: "For Better or Worse" (sequel to "Becoming")can now be purchased as an Amazon Kindle Ebook @ $4.95. Or if a Prime member, both books can be read for free. Sexual Arousal Is an excerpt from, "Becoming" which can now be purchased as a Kindle Ebook @$4.95 "Becom..
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Shanti by Laurel Lamperd
A fantasy with an Indian twist..
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Shooting From the Hip by D. Vegas
Parts of my life. . . ..
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Short For Beelzebub by Bill Fullerton
Inspired by Mel Brooks making fun of Nazis in, The Producers, I decided to try something similar with 500 words of flash fiction based, I'm sad to say, on a real-life event. ..
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Short of the week for 11/17/14—'Inscription.' by Byron Edgington
One man's dilemma when asked 'what do you want on your headstone?'..
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Signora Petronio by Lucille Bellucci
Signora Petronio finds her first love..
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Sirens by Linda Gould
An idealistic newspaper editor and his wife grapple with the question: how real is the political revolution they have vowed to support?..
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Sixty-Eight Rubbers by Mark Lichterman
Pushing the buggy through the door, alone but for her baby, Marsha Lipensky walked along the cracked asphalt of the ‘Old Road’ to the dirt side road that would take her to the—until she’d arrived about an hour and a half ago—deserted cove of cottages. ..
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Skaneateles Ghost Story by Juliet Waldron
I've met a few ghosts over the years. This was the first...
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Skokie, Illinois, 1951 by Mark Lichterman
In the future, for its size, the Village of Skokie would have a higher concentration of Jewish people than any other city in the world, even more than the city of Tel Aviv in the then three-year-old state of Israel. But in the last days of August, in the year 1951, Myra Lipensky was concerned that h..
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Read excerpt from Skylark Skylark by Paxton Riddle
The fateful meeting of a young, white jazz drummer and a mysterious, beautiful Black jazz singer. Can they make it work?..
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SLUSH by Laura Spinella
Grady Sommers thought he was doing the right thing, protecting his wife and family from a decades old secret. But the Sommers' lives unravel when Audra Bauer returns to Snow Harbor,bringing with her Grady's secret and the child they had. ..
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Small Town Blues by Kate Loveday
When Gail decides to befriend newcomers to the town the results were far from what she envisaged...
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Small Town Obama by Cynth'ya Reed
Obama is the vehicle. Indiana and small town America, it's up to us to help create that change...
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Snap Shots by Mark Lichterman
Looking at his brothers he considered going upstairs to read the letter in private, but knowing that they, too, missed Marsha and Michael and that they also had waited day after day for a letter from Marsha...
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Snow 3: The Lone Ranger by Mark Lichterman
The mountains were steep and treacherous, and the Lone Ranger slipped, slid, and crawled, but eventually made it the quarter block to the corner. “Hummm,” scratching his steel-hard chin, “I’m’a thinkin’ ah better mosey in here for some vittles.” Sliding down a dangerous, precipitous cliff, ..
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Snow: 1 of 2 by Mark Lichterman
Suddenly remembering, bolting up, the boy rushed to the window and lifted the shade, but the window was covered with a thick, uneven coating of milky white frost. Holding his mouth an inch from the frozen glass, feeling the radiating cold, he exhaled his warm breath onto the opaque surface. A dime&#..
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Snow: 2 of 2 by Mark Lichterman
With a determined look on his masked, square‑jawed face, the Lone Ranger slammed the pistol in the holster then ran up one mountain and down another. He scrambled over a buried car and, standing on the mountaintop, shaded his eyes from the glaring sun of this dull gray, overcast day. ..
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Snow2: Back Alley Peddler by Mark Lichterman
“Hi, Mitchie!” Nick yelled from the high seat of the wagon. “Whoa, Erma!” Thick plumes of vapor streaming from her wide nostrils, the horse stopped on command, lifted her tail, and with a “fart” that he could hear, though Mitchell was about fifteen yards away, Erma deposited a huge plop of steami..
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SoCal by Mark Lichterman
No way to do this now, during our pandemic and self imposed hibernation. still living off the "green velvet walkway" and have for the past thirty-three years and as my instructions are for cremation with ashes spread outside my doorway, I suppose that I will be right here forever...
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SoCal Beauty A Prelude to Disaster by Mark Lichterman
Reservoir water levels down drought conditions apply Southern California water rationing enforced. October promising a bit of rain..
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Softball With Girls by Mark Lichterman
Phyllis and Sharon’s standard baseball uniforms were blue jeans and one of their father’s old, short-sleeved, loose-fitting dress shirts open at the collar and, depending on how hot it was, an additional one or two buttons down… A "Becoming" Excerpt..
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Some Mother's Child by Debra Purdy Kong
This piece won honorable mention (there was no 2nd or 3rd place) at the Surrey International Writers' Conference in Oct. 2007, and was published in their anthology. I received a certificate in person from Diana Gabaldon and Jack Whyte. Very exciting! ..
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Somewhere Blooms a Rose - Repost by Tami Ryan
An excerpt from “Letters to Moonshadow”. The schizophrenic reference is not used in a poetic sense but, rather, a literal one. ..
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Song In My Heart (chapter 1 of novel in progress) by Sandy Knauer
If Penny hated everything her mother was—dishonest, abusive, unfaithful, and unfit—why was it such a struggle to keep from turning out just like her? And when her mother finally let her go, why hadn’t she run in a different direction instead of chasing down the same path, betraying herself now that..
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Songs the Graveyard Sings by Debra Purdy Kong
When the family matriarch dies, a young woman must learn to stand up for herself if she's to live the life she wants. This story first appeared in Lynx Eye in Summer 2003...
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Soul Windows by Jaleta Clegg
Who is innocent? If you could look into a soul, the answer might surprise you, as Jim discovers one sultry desert night...
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South Beach Hangover Girl by David Arthur Walters
Parents should warn their kids about hangovers..
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South Perfect by Jerelyn Craden
Living in a state of mind...
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Southern Storm by Mitzi Jackson
*she knew she was wrong lest she felt like she was in her heart of hearts, but she wanted him she wanted to feel what his wife must have felt....she wanted him and God help her for her sins.........
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Southpaw by Harold Hester
A small percentage of the US population is left-handed. Their lives are made special because of that fact that they are in fact a bit different then "Righties". This story mearly says what many of us do not consciously realize that actually we are all equal...
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Space Age Dawning by Mark Lichterman
On that day repair men the world over were handed a windfall as a mysterious, electronic beep emanated from television sets and radios throughout the world creating bewilderment… And many calls to local repair men...
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Speak Lord, I'm Listening! by Adele Gill
Many times what we say is true, but it is not in keeping with how scripture advises us to speak. As a general rule of thumb, it is always best to only say about others what we would say to or in front of them...
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