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Risk your Life to Write

Courtesy of http://www.capitalnewyork.com. Imagine every piece you wrote was interpreted as sinful. Picture yourself walking down a road to another house or place to make a phone call. In that phone call, you said your poem, story or essay line by line. You say each word in a hushed voice, because you're always scared someone will catch… Continue reading Risk your Life to Write

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I Will Remember

I will remember beyond the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month. I will remember. Great Uncle Durgin's plane was shot down by the Luftwaffe. His body, never found. His 19 years will not waste away in the Mediterranean Sea. One day—when the time is right—my second child will be named for… Continue reading I Will Remember