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Stefanie Allison takes us deep into the San Gabriel Mountains in this short story, an offering for our A Word from You Writer’s Showcase. She asks for a few moments of your time in order to give her respectful feedback on this story-in-progress. Stefanie takes her craft seriously, and respects [...]
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In this piece for our A Word from You Writer’s Showcase, Stefanie Allison delicately explores that “What in the Sam Hill?!” moment when we aren’t prepared for inspiration to strike, but it does anyway. Why doesn’t inspiration ever come around when we’re ready for it, when we want it, when [...]
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Sonia B. SyGaco, who treated us to an electrifying little story, Fate, for our CatTales contest, is back again with a submission for A Word from You Writer’s Showcase. This story was originally inspired by CatTales, but Sonia found that she had tapped into a rich creative vein and couldn’t [...]
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One of our goals is to inspire writers to reach deep inside their fertile brains and pull out material that can be shaped into something not only readable but publishable as well. A Word from You Writer’s Showcase is our platform for authors to share their works-in-progress and receive respectful feedback [...]
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Christy Wardlow of Chatterbrew takes her first fiction plunge with this submission to A Word from You writer’s showcase. She’s been following our site for quite a while, and we’re absolutely delighted that she’s sharing a piece of her fertile mind with us. Readers, you know what to do! Give [...]
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Stefanie Allison, our Number One Fan, sends us this short story she’s been hiding up her shirtsleeve. But now it’s out in the open, and part of our A Word from You writer’s showcase, and she eagerly awaits your feedback. After all, there’s nothing like a real, live audience to help [...]
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Telepathy and dolphins. A lot has been made of that in recent years, especially because of our discovery that all that clicking and clacking is not random sound, but is actually a language. And so, if they have language, it means they have thoughts. While we may not be able [...]
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A Word from You writer’s showcase allows writers to get feedback the easy way – by sharing their works-in-progress with our community. The delightful thing about Suzanne Morse’s submission for A Word from You is that it originally began as a piece for our Independence Date contest – but, as with [...]
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Somebody once called poetry, the language of the soul. Stefanie Allison has given us a sneaky peek into her soul here, with a personal and poetic examination of identity and influence. She invites you to consider Synergy.
Synergy
I am Mommy
Her brown eyes
And hatred
Of exercise
I am Daddy
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George Verongos has contributed short stories to both our recent contests, The Coffee Shop Chronicles and Defying Moments. Many of you have mentioned in the Comments section that you would like to see more, more, MORE! So George has kindly obliged us with just that: a story-in-progress for our A Word [...]
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Here, for our A Word from You writer’s showcase, is the third chapter of Marcella Maggio’s memoir-in-progress, The Teacher. Before you continue, be strongly cautioned that Marcella’s descriptions are vivid and explicit. What follows is not light bedtime reading, and is not for those of a delicate constitution. I can’t imagine [...]
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Stefanie Allison, known to A Word with You Press as the elusively named star5fallonmyheart, offers you a poem for A Word with You Writer’s Showcase about the ties that bind, and the family history that defines us (whether we’re conscious of it or not). Where do you come from? What lands, [...]
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A Word from You writer’s showcase has been gratifyingly flush with submissions, and, to follow suit, Suzanne Morse fearlessly offers you a portion of the first chapter of her novel-in-progress. Beneath the Neon is a fictionalized account of Suzanne’s attempt, as she says, “to break in with the big guys on [...]
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Peggy Dobbs stands on the shoulders of literary giants with the following poem, her third entry into our A Word from You writer’s showcase. Peggy – like Milton’s oft-quoted poem, and like many of us! – reviews her life and wonders where the time went. She looks forward to a future [...]
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Stefanie Allison offers us this short story as part of our A Word from You writer’s showcase. This is one of her works-in-progress, a tender sprout that needs your care to grow into the fully developed, mature narrative that Stefanie intends. So, fellow readers and writers: help the author by noting [...]
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Marcella Maggio is back for more of your respectful comments, critiques and insight for the second chapter of her memoir-in-progress, The Teacher, which she has submitted for our writer’s showcase. Marcella shares some very personal parts of her life’s journey, and presents them to you in the form of a narrative; it [...]
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Some say it’s a link to your past, a respectful nod in the direction from which you’ve come. Some say it’s a reflection of your parents’ wishes for your future, a helpful nudge toward the person they hope you’ll be. Either way, your name bears the imprint of their dreams. Stefanie [...]
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Peggy Dobbs offers us another poem as part of our A Word from You Writer’s Showcase, in which we publish works-in-progress – poems, essays, short stories, or up to 20 pages of your novel or memoir – in order to solicit respectful feedback from the A Word with You Press community.
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Marcella Maggio has a pop quiz for you: Please offer your insight and gentle constructive criticism after reading the introduction and first chapter of her memoir-in-progress, The Teacher. Marcella has submitted this piece for A Word from You writer’s showcase, and your assignment is to give her respectful feedback and help [...]
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Peggy Dobbs, a beloved voice in our fledgling community of writers and artists, has been kind enough to share an intimate conversation with God in the following poem, submitted in response to our call for “A Word from You.” If prayer is communion with the Creator, and if the Creator delights [...]
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