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- This Week's Featured Author -  S. Gaia ChapinMember Since: 23-Oct-06 Mini-Bio:Originally from California, I've traveled the world as a professional modern ballet dancer/choreographer and ran my own critically acclaimed dance theater company in San Francisco. Now, I am an author and intuitive counselor. I live in Florida. Fiction : Thriller/Suspense,
Chapter Excerpt - Title: DARK MERCY - Chapter 1Synopsis: A bounty hunter with paramilitary training, shadow group ties, and a special facility: an abnormally heightened sense of smell, uses his gift to track the man who murdered his mother.
Fiction : Thriller/Suspense,
Short Story -
Title: Amateur
Synopsis: A man with a secret life underestimates his girlfriend and pays for his mistake.
Fiction : Thriller/Suspense -
Title: In the Ravine
Synopsis: An LA detective and a mysterious woman meet in an Arizona ravine. One seeks absolution, the other revenge. The canyon provides an unorthodox route to their goals. In the end, both get what they came for, but only one leaves the canyon alive.
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The Muse has selected these fine titles for you.
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Fiction:
Author: Sghoul
Title: Steak Out
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Category: Fiction, Genre(s): Humor
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thelliott : These are great, I love Frank and Charlie. It works with just the dialog also, as long as there are just two of them talking. (15-Feb-07)
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Author: Gojiro
Title: The Box Man at the Heart of the World
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Category: Fiction, Genre(s): Fantasy,
Short Short
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Sandy Lulay : Wonderful short story. Illistrated, this would be a great childrens book. Thank's for posting it:) (24-Jan-08)
Author Reply: "Thank you! I never saw it as a children's story, but now that you've put the idea in my head, it intrigues me ..." (24-Jan-08)
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Non-Fiction:
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Author: Malcolm Sterling
Title: The Betrayer
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Category: Non-Fiction, Genre(s): Essay
Brief Synopsis: This is an essay I wrote as a response to the precepts of writing in an English course.
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Sandy Lulay : Your essay says what every writing teacher tries to teach hopeful students- writing is a craft and a craft must be practiced, practiced, practiced! I learned this the hard way when I stopped writing for over three years to cook and care for 3 elderly relatives. At first I did not realize I was not writing- that I was too exhausted to focus on creative thought. Then I felt like I had fallen down a well with no escape (death of my charges was the escape). In this time two of my friends published novels after working hard learning and writing every day. Writing is a craft we must practice like playing the panio, guitar, singing or ballet. Just like people can steal your time and thoughts, procrastination is an even more devious thief. (07-Jul-07)
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scrapsoflife : Okay, how did you manage to make p.3 blank and p.4 talk about the blank page? If it was intentional, bravo for the visual clues; if not, then the computer might have a curious mind of its own! I do sort of feel like I've been smacked across the knuckles with a yard-stick, though--very good admonishment for us procrastinators. (23-Mar-07)
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A.C. Millicent : I appreciated your comparison of honing the craft of writing to that of practicing music. As a singer, I know that I am at my best when I've rehearsed so much that I know every word and every note. It's then when I can open up and express the emotion and depth of the music. Otherwise, it seems forced or vacant. (13-Mar-07)
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Poetry:
Author: Uptownfive
Title: Weight
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Category: Poetry, Genre(s): Free Form
Brief Synopsis: Written after attending the Vote for Change tour with a friend of an ex. we stopped before anything happened and just went to sleep due to a conflict with being the friend of an ex. Anyways, wasn\'t the original intention of the evening, just happened
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Mercy Manic : I like this bittersweet poem.
The line "as we lay amongst the trees of forbidden fruit" made me squee.
I'm not sure about the dropping question marks though. To me it feels like they distract more than they add. (10-Sep-07)
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scrapsoflife : Wow... Repetition is one of those fine-line things, it can work or not and in this it really works so well. Very evocative in just a few lines but you really do bring across the pathos of such a situation. (16-Aug-07)
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