Article 403: Mystery of Miss Kingston: Short Story

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by hasan A. yahya)

Hasan Abdul-Qader Yahya A lady and a gentleman met in their way to the company at Michigan Avenue, near the Capitol building. Lansing, Michigan  for different reasons. The gentleman was the owner of the company, and the woman was coming for...

Win Writing Awards For A Five-Figure Income

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by John Yeoman)

How do you enter a large volume of short stories to win writing awards? The greater number of contests you enter, the higher your chances of winning. But every competition appears to contain exact requirements. For instance, a award scheme m...

Departure, departure

(Sat Apr 2nd, 2011, by Satish Verma)

Your absence was left beside me for the white salt, unsolicited, unbroken wants. Asking to return the dried roses pressed between the pages of talking book. Counting only the dying fireworks the hissing sparks, left in the unwrapped ...

Stillbirth, stillbirth

(Sat Apr 2nd, 2011, by Satish Verma)

Between want and desire few crumbs of words will not satisfy. Facts and perception build a latticed smile between tears. Discreetly life catches a miasm, a fault to commit suicide. When will the exile end, of hope, a holy womb? Th...

The Snowflake Method - Step 2

(Sat Apr 2nd, 2011, by Darren Kirby)

So here we are, at Step 2 in the Snowflake Method of writing.  Brief review:  Step 1 of the Snowflake Method involved distilling your story down into a 1-sentence summary.  Difficult, but not impossible.  Step 2 builds on this by having ...

Go beyond borders

(Sat Apr 2nd, 2011, by maakrishna)

Go Beyond Borders! I have borrowed this slogan from CNN – Cable News Network. I find the slogan fascinating, captivating and inspirational. Though a short sentence, it is a command that carries a lot of weight; action packed, action orient...

Making Headlines that Knock them Dead

(Sat Apr 2nd, 2011, by JoeLangdon)

Writing a killer headline is all about using common sense to deliver your message to your targeted audience without getting them all mixed up. The goal of this article is to discuss how you can successfully create sensational headlines that ...

Raging kindness

(Fri Apr 1st, 2011, by Satish Verma)

Suckers of an octopus arm entwine like ziplocks around a bleeding artifact, for signature erase on shared bed. Few oily drops simmer down from the wheels, the raging grief of the centuries. Arrival had been delayed of charred rema...

Sleeping buddha

(Fri Apr 1st, 2011, by Satish Verma)

Happening? you heave a sigh. In peril, mother of peace? Real threat to ice lingam? the Creator? Falling apart? Cat's claw was not healing. Where the greens will go? The pods, the seeds? Tara, Tara! come again, we are waiting on th...

Poems-Blue love/Dancing matachin/Dramatic fall (tragicomedy poetry)

(Fri Apr 1st, 2011, by Marieta Maglas)

Blue love Give me your love, When the blue rain is pouring down. Just open the window of Heaven for me.I can hear the rain whispering your name.I can hear the whisper of the white trees, And I can wait my falling rainbow.Just give me your bl...