Fiction Writers' Platform http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net The Showcase for Fiction Writers Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:27:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 FictionWritersPlatformhttp://feedburner.google.com A Soldier’s Story http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/a-soldiers-story/ http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/a-soldiers-story/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:44:15 +0000 Horst Woyde http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/?p=3622 Continue reading A Soldier’s Story

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Julia Wallingford didn’t flinch when the first rotten egg struck the podium. Instead, she took a perfumed lace handkerchief from her reticule, picked up the jagged pieces of egg shell, stored them in her reticule, and continued to speak. Behind her she heard a gasp and a whirr as Sebastian, her robot servant

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Jan’s Story

Why didn’t we make the big move in after Valentine’s Day?” Jan asked their Golden Lab Neptune.

Neptune barked a short, staccato “I don’t know.”

“I don’t either, Jan said.

Neptune barked another short comment.

“Ask Tim? I’ll ask him when he comes home,” she said.

She looked around. Home. This

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]]> http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/holy-water/feed/ 3 Henry the Gentle Giant Conquers the Seaweed Sea Serpents http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/henry-the-gentle-giant-conquers-the-seaweed-sea-serpents/ http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/henry-the-gentle-giant-conquers-the-seaweed-sea-serpents/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:07:26 +0000 KathyWarnes http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/henry-the-gentle-giant-conquers-the-seaweed-sea-serpents/ by Kathy Warnes

A long time ago when ferns grew as high as the sky and the earth hiccoughed fire, Henry the Gentle Giant lived in a village beside the Blue and Green Striped Sea

The houses in his village were made out of wood and a wooden circle of logs surrounded the village to protect

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Thelma felt like she had a black hole inside her. On the outside, she kept her life normal while the black hole inside her swallowed any light and happiness in her heart and soul.

Words like kidnapping and love and homesick jumbled into a letter rainbow that teetered above the black hole. She

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]]> http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/the-colorful-kidnapping/feed/ 2 “The Swamps of New Jersey” Revised, Chapters 6 to 8 http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/the-swamps-of-new-jersey-revised-chapters-6-to-8/ http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/the-swamps-of-new-jersey-revised-chapters-6-to-8/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:56:50 +0000 Michael Daigle http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/?p=3535 Chapter 6

Nagler took a left from the main road, turning into the subdivision where Lauren Fox grew up. The houses were neat ranches, one and two story homes built in a neighborhood started after the war, set on large lawns, fully treed, yards with bikes, boats, a second car, a few camper-trailers, a

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]]> http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/swamps-of-new-jersey-revised-chapters-4-5/feed/ 0 “Swamps of New Jersey” Revisions. Chapters 1-3 http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/swamps-of-new-jersey-revisions-chapters-1-3/ http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2012/01/swamps-of-new-jersey-revisions-chapters-1-3/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:29:27 +0000 Michael Daigle http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/?p=3531 Chapter 1

The old Jews knew what to do with rain like this. Conjure an honest man with a boat and spin a parable about the wages of sin. In Ironton, New Jersey people with six feet of water in their cellars wondered why they had not been told about the boat.

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