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A Failure That I Have Learned From

4 Jan 2020 4 minute read 0 comments shellatreille

A Failure That I Have Learned From   By Shelley M. Latreille   Things are not what they seem. People can never be just one personality. Things, animals, humans, can snap at any given moment. As I stand here on this balcony, I witness this magical fe...

Writing a Mystery Novel: The Basics

1 Dec 2019 6 minute read 0 comments Hope E Davis

One of the most common questions I get asked is why I choose to write mystery novels, and let me tell you, the number one reason is because mystery novels are what people want to read! According to therichest.com, mystery is the second most widely re...

The Haircut

21 Oct 2019 6 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Men closed the balcony door to smoke cigarettes and tell jokes. From time to time, from the balcony, ladies heard roars of laughter and half-drunk screams in pretending voices – “boys”, who knew each other since college times, remembered good old day...

Phoebe saw the end

3 Oct 2019 9 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Hello Friends, While being in one of the Yahoo writing groups, I participated in literary contests. The group owner came up with the writing prompt (the title of the story) and all the participants wrote the story, which title was the owner's prompt....

A Word from Our Sponsor

2 Oct 2019 5 minute read 2 comments mgaft1

  "Ok. Let's get the next caller. That's Jerome from Inglewood. Jerome, you're on Tom Linquist show." "Hey, Tom, how're ya doing?" "Doing great." "Tom, I wanna tell ya. Love your show. I think you're the best." "Thanks, Jerome. Appreciate that. What...

The List

29 Sep 2019 9 minute read 2 comments mgaft1

“What are you doing Hammie?  The tablets are fragile.  You’re going to destroy the list?” Shem exclaimed looking at Ham who scattered the piles of clay tablets all over the warehouse floor.  He grabbed Ham from behind not letting him move. Ham was sh...

The advantage

1 Sep 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

"It was an advantage!" I said half-shouting. My response was instinctive. I shouldn’t have said that let along shout it out. Gilbert’s silver Porsche promptly moved away, taking Maeve away from me perhaps forever. I quickly looked around. Some accide...

Shopping for October Revolution

9 Aug 2019 10 minute read 2 comments mgaft1

After seeing to it that her daughter and son-in-law were set for the day, old aunt Matriona gathered the jar for sour cream, the bottle for sunflower oil, bags, and nets. She dressed quickly, put wrapped herself with a gray shawl tightly and dashed o...

Hideout

21 Jul 2019 4 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Saturday morning, I opened a letter that came from the city of Los Angeles. It stated that I owed 160 bucks worth of parking ticket for Acura Integra, the car I used to drive two years ago. "Wait a second. Didn’t I sell it by then? Where is the damn...

The Lost Princess

19 Jul 2019 2 minute read 0 comments razeiv

Hi folks, i hope we all are having a good time here 🙂 We have heard many tales of Prince and princess and as you me too. So i am inspired you can say from reading those prince and princess stories mostly during my childhood days, which unfortunately...