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— A Writer’s Notebook IX

Studs was seventeen. He wore a checked jacket and designer blue-jeans and a black silk shirt with a button-down-collar. He was skinny with a mop of blond hair and full lips. He wore a little mascara and a single ring in his right ear.
His brother, Shelly, a year older, was taller by several inches. Shelly [...]

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— Why Don’t You Stop Talking by Jackie Kay

There are several excellent short stories in this collection. This is a taster from Timing:
The copper one threw her arms around the dark one and they kissed at the side of the river. I have never seen a kiss on one of my walks, not a long desperate kiss like that. I had to slow [...]

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— Write What You Know?

Michael Snyder at The Master’s Artist doesn’t know anything at all. But he still wants to write:
So what I have to do is start writing and see what happens. Eventually I get to know the world that comes trickling down from my brain and out of my fingertips. At some point I find a guy [...]

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— A Writer’s Notebook VIII

It wasn’t an everyday event. Bodies weren’t. Altogether, not in this part of the country. You could be a serving officer for your whole life and not come into contact with a body. Maybe in London, Manchester, Birmingham, big cities. In those places you would have to deal with bodies, still not every day, but [...]

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