| On the Study of Medicine
| | Around six o’clock each evening, there’s a pull from inside me urging me towards my schoolbooks.... | | Creative Non-Fiction | | Updated: | 11-09-08 |
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| Victoria's Secret
| | I can barely feel the lace around my bottom that Victoria’s Secret seductively referred to as “panties.” My breasts feel like they’re going to bounce out of my shadow-pink bra – no doubt... | | Creative Non-Fiction | | Updated: | 19-08-08 |
| Words: | 628 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Chapter One of a possible book
| | 0830: Natali Shabfrooz Prenatal Care Natali perched like an expectant bird on the edge of her Japanese mattress. When she had come trudging into town three months ago, it had been the most prominent... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 05-07-08 |
| Words: | 1916 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Public |
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| Chapter three of possible book
| | It was only through the luck of the economy that I had managed to lose enough weight to fit back into my college clothes. In all truth, my college clothes were actually big on me now. They hung... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 25-06-08 |
| Words: | 1185 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Public |
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| Sink Dreams
| | OK, yes I admit it. I do aspire to greatness. Tell the truth, I really have my eye on the Surgeon... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 25-06-08 |
| Words: | 540 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Public |
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| Chapter Two of possible book
| | The sun bore down on two hunched figures in the aisles of vegetation – me and my husband. With no scheduled rounds and no emergencies running down our driveway, and our daughter in Natali’s... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 05-06-08 |
| Words: | 1331 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Reader |
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| When Friends Return
| | I stood at the window, cigarette in hand. After the first couple of puffs, my lungs learned not to resist, and to go quietly with the fumes. My hand shook mildly as it pulled the stick away from my... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-04-08 |
| Words: | 677 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Public |
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| On My Issues
| | I remember reading this one thing one day. It said, the Jewish faith prefer that you perform mitzvot... | | Words: | 792 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| When is the end of life?
| | It’s funny. I can’t understand why my friend can’t mentally cope with coming to my house... | | Words: | 475 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Public |
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| Sauna
| | The Catholic in me propelled me towards the gym. After the gym, it pushed me into the women’s sauna bath. It was a ritual of mine: I messed up, I knew it, and now I would push my body to the limit... | | Creative Non-Fiction | | Updated: | 01-04-08 |
| Words: | 534 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Not This Time
| | “No backing out, the appointment’s made: tomorrow at five in the park.”... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 26-03-08 |
| Words: | 99 | | Comments: | 10 | | Status: | Public |
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| Overexposed
| | I blearily looked at the sheet next to me. Chris’ spot was taken by Panda, whose cocked head and... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 13-03-08 |
| Words: | 200 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Public |
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| Danny Stared At the Clock
| | Danny stared at the clock, the boxes diminishing as the movers migrated in and out. His wife’s... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 06-03-08 |
| Words: | 173 | | Comments: | 5 | | Status: | Public |
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| Berakhot (Blessings)
| | The music was so simple, and yet it surged around me. The cantor sang along with a piano, banging a... | | Creative Non-Fiction | | Updated: | 02-03-08 |
| Words: | 562 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Donate Now (Female Guilt)
| | There were so many things I wanted to do. I wanted to raise money for charity through running, and I wanted to save money up to take care of my mother when the time came. Dreams swept through my mind... | | Words: | 1120 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Public |
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| Passion
| | When was the last time I did something I was passionate about? I had sex last night -- a tryst on... | | Creative Non-Fiction | | Updated: | 25-02-08 |
| Words: | 258 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Biased
| | This is the last time, I thought spitefully. This is the last time I come home early. Next time, I'm staying at the damn library. I'll stay til midnight next time. I thought the coast would be clear.... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 11-02-08 |
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| Lab Rat
| | I don’t know why I thought of my skirt when the woman told me I had been pleasant in our encounter. For some reason, my mind automatically went to my appearance. I felt sexy but uncomfortable in my... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 07-02-08 |
| Words: | 496 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Public |
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| Cali Rain
| | I was perturbed by the swinging wind chime that didn't sing. My first night back in California, a... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 08-01-08 |
| Words: | 125 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Public |
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| My Mother's Chair
| | There was only one day left of my seemingly single life. Yes, I was engaged, but there was one last... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 02-01-08 |
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| My Ambitious Friend
| | When I'm tired, I joke. When I'm stressed, I joke. When I'm in a great mood, the jokes are almost non-stop, composed almost entirely of your-mom jokes. Today, I was stressed as well as tired. There... | | Creative Non-Fiction | | Updated: | 22-12-07 |
| Words: | 405 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Public |
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| Mistletoe
| | You said you had been nervous to see me this afternoon. You didn’t know how I would react. It had... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 22-12-07 |
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| Renewal
| | My heart hurt for him. I knew what I had to do, but it didn’t stop the pain. I had found something good today, something worthwhile. I had found something to make me giddy, something that whetted my... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 17-12-07 |
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| Lecture Notes
| | I watched, amused, three rows behind my classmates. My own love life being slower than fossil... | | Creative Non-Fiction | | Updated: | 14-12-07 |
| Words: | 196 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Subway Glass
| | I was stuck with this memory of us. We were riding the dirty subway through North Philadelphia,... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 12-12-07 |
| Words: | 257 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Public |
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