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Lucky 7 Lines: From Two Justin Bog Books

There is something talismanic about the number 7. Do you believe this is a lucky number? Do you believe in numerology? I have a repetitive love of the number 8 . . ....

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The Best Books of Rachel Ingalls — Top Ten Favorite Author

    When I read a story or a novel and I enter its created world completely — with no outer distractions, and this mobile life we’re all living in tends to distract...

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A Great Distance: Part 3 — The End

If you have not read the previous two sections of A Great Distance, The Beginning & The Middle, please go back to Part 1 by clicking HERE. These three sections were placed in the longer...

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A Great Distance: Part 2 — The Middle

In A Great Distance, Part 2, Deepika continues to tell the story of her main character, the intrepid reporter, Sai, and Mrs. Plesher, a woman with secrets she freely shares; he’s asked to interview...

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A Great Distance: Part 1 — The Beginning

Yes, I have a fun, smart, humorous friend with the name of Deepika, and she allowed me the use of her name for one of the characters in my first novel, Wake Me...

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Seducing Santa — A Short Holiday Story

  There are so many ways to celebrate the Holidays, and I love writing about how different people choose to entertain as Christmas approaches. Before I reveal this year’s holiday story, here are...

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The Best American Short Stories 2011 – A Recommendation

Okay, I’ll stop with these two happy Kipling photos and carry on with my recommendation I searched for the anthology The Best American Short Stories 2011, a series that comes out each Fall with...

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Halloween Tales

I try to read a short story, or part of a long short story, every single night. A good habit I started years ago. In the past couple months I picked three books...

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eBook: Mile 81 by Stephen King

  So, as most people in the known literary and popular culture universe know, Stephen King published an original eStory, Mile 81, today. Even though there are no deer in the story, I...

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