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February 20, 2008

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Gentle Journey by Elaine Bach
Treading softly until he was close enough, he extended the straw leaf until it just touched Eden's neck. This, of course, made her flinch and strike her neck, thinking it was an insect. When she turned and saw the earl, she drew her bare feet up under her skirts. "Very amusing," she attempted to quell him.

"Mistook you for a wood nymph. Had to test to see if you were mortal," he explained...

FICTION: PSYCHOLOGICAL

Visiting Grandma by Debra Stang
The muscles in my back bunched up like someone had attached a string to my spine and pulled hard. I sneaked a look back over my shoulder and saw Larry, DeShawn, and Pete half a block behind me. They'd followed me from the junior high. They did that a lot when they didn't have football practice.

"You walk like a girl, Bowman!" Larry yelled. "You even look like a girl with those long eyelashes and those pretty blue eyes. Let's see if you fight like a girl." He smacked his right fist into his left palm...

FICTION: THRILLERS

Erosion by Lon Cohen
Canyon Park is bowed down under a relentless torrent of rain. The fields are flooded, the bridges crumble and the increasingly isolated town is host to a serial killer with a grudge against the wealthy Lollo family. Slipping between a small cast of characters; the killer, the tortured policeman hiding a dark secret, the returning son, the inquisitive librarian, the boy caught between culturesÖeach of these marred, struggling humans a part of the threadbare fabric of the town. Throughout the story, secrets and motivations are slowly revealed, people continue to die, and it continues to rain...

ESSAYS: TRAVEL

Waltzing Australia by Cynthia Clampitt
Water trickles over moss-covered rocks, joins with other trickles, forms streams that end in waterfalls and great, deep pools that spill endlessly down the mountainside, disappearing and reemerging from the fabulous tangle of undergrowth...

SELF-HELP

How YOU(tm) are like Shampoo by Brenda Bence
If you're one of those people who aren't as satisfied at work as you'd like to be, defining your personal brand can help you start to enjoy your job again. Once you define and clarify your role at work and what you want to accomplish - which is what personal branding is all about - you can embrace work with new meaning. Knowing who YOU(tm) are can help you eliminate that groan when the alarm goes off in the morning.

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