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Writer’s Digest. If you write, know this magazine. Subscribe as I do. Or don’t, but know it exists. That’s my…
I can’t tell you how often I’ve read this aloud. I’ve never recorded it because the version I first heard…
Freshman year at Illinois State University. I redefined myself. Wasn’t the first time I built my image, but the previous…
Mama birds sometimes push their children out of the nest to fly. The ones which impress me are the ones…
It is a known that Edgar Allan Poe lifted a glass or two. In fact, when he was drunk, he…
Pitcher, confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell, broker, allowed a look of mild interest and surprise to visit…