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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion

E. A. Able — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:13:15 +0000

Everything was being mixed up, and all was falling. I knew my affair with Lucille wouldn’t last much longer. She wanted me to be her way. She was married to a longshoreman who treated her badly. I was willing to marry her and take her baby daughter and...

Writing Prompt – March 11, 2010

E. A. Able — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:42:54 +0000

QuoteSnack offers fresh quotes daily, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, I’ll sometimes post a writing prompt with simple instructions. The next post will be a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities in how someone else [...]

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free

E. A. Able — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:52:16 +0000

I fell to plotting ways of short-circuiting the machine. Perhaps if I shifted my body about so that the two nodes would come together – No, not only was there no room but it might electrocute me. I shuddered. Whoever else I...

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

E. A. Able — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:00:36 +0000

Graham spent her very long life studying movement and challenging accepted ideas about what dance is and what a dancer can do. She looked upon dance as an exploration, a celebration of life, a religious calling that required absolute devotion. She called her dancers...

Writing Prompt – March 10, 2010

E. A. Able — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:23 +0000

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid

E. A. Able — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:44:45 +0000

The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather...

There is always something left to love

E. A. Able — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:34:03 +0000

And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. (Looking at her) Have you cried for that boy today? I don’t mean for yourself and for the family ’cause we lost the money. I mean for him: what he been through and...

Writing Prompt – March 8, 2010

E. A. Able — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:20:33 +0000

Human beings are not born once… life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves

E. A. Able — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:38:43 +0000

He began at the beginning. He presented himself unannounced in the office of Uncle Leo XII, President of the Board of Directors and General Manager of the River Company of the Caribbean, and expressed his willingness...

Writing Prompt – March 7, 2010

E. A. Able — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:08:37 +0000