Category: Creative writing
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Read more: Generation Gap
“This is where we used to play when I was a boy, Amber.” “Play what, Grampa? I didn’t think they had Bubble Witch Saga or Wi-Fi back then.” “Soccer, Amber. We physically played soccer.” ThreeLineTales
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Read more: Date Night
“See Jeff, this is why I avoid all-you-can-ingest plankton bars: everybody’s focused on stuffing themselves, nobody looks where they’re going, you never know whose tentacles are tangled-up with yours…it’s ridiculous!” “Well Margaret, if you’d made reservations at Chez…
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Read more: Out Loud
Star-crossed lovers in perpetual orbit; the Moon circling the Earth circling the Sun— a Sun that doesn’t seem to shine on us. Still, your heart beats the rhythm of mine as my soul is the other half of yours despite…
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Read more: When Phil Konstantin Didn’t Interview Susan Shuman
Below is an abridged and edited (obviously) excerpt from Phil Konstantin’s interview with Stephen King. If Mr. Konstantin had interviewed me, this is how I’d have answered. I understand you don’t like to be asked why you write the kind of stories…
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Read more: From Hell to Hero
Gloria awakened that morning with an erroneous smile on her face. Slowly, reality set-in as she came to accept the fact that Sunday was gone and Monday had taken its place. Monday meant school. School meant mean kids and bullies. Mean kids…
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Read more: Piers Morgan Doesn’t Interview Susan Shuman
Below is an edited excerpt of Piers Morgan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey on January 17, 2011. MORGAN: Tell me this, Ms. Shuman. Do you ever get sort of surreal moments when — I’m just trying to picture what it’s like being…
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Read more: Letter to my 18-year-old Damn-Self
Dear Susan, I’d have written sooner, but wouldn’t have known what the hell I was talking about. Sorry. I wish you could have read this when it would have done you some good. Given the fact that I knew none of…
