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1. Connie's Convertible (Revision 3)
by Jim Coffey Novel, General Fiction 09 Jul 2008
Tom visits Connie, ex girlfriend and love of his life. The visit, and an unwelcome phone call from his estranged dying father, causes Tom to reflect on how he got into this desperate state, and then, just what he's going to do about it.
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2. A Cross by the Road (Revised)
by Dan Schuler Short Story, General Fiction 22 Jun 2008
A woman reflects on her past and her prospects for the future on the anniversary of the tragic accident that changed her life.
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3. HANDSTANDS IN THE SHALLOW END (REVISED)
by Jennifer J. Sowle Historical, Womens Fiction 13 Jun 2008
It’s l968 when Luanne Kilpi is pulled from the Saginaw River and ends up in the loony bin. Her story illuminates the hopes and hazards of psychiatry, the thin line between heartache and insanity, an unflinching look at life inside the asylum that looms large in a small northern town. Women’s fiction.
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4. Awake (slight revision)
by Danny Gillan Short Story, Comedy, General Fiction 02 Jul 2008
Short Story. I've made a few changes to this but nothing major, so if you've had it before feel free to pass. It's a gently comic look at a typical working class funeral.
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5. Frame-Up
by E. Christopherson Crime, Mystery, Thriller 29 Apr 2008
New York magazine journalist Will Pruett attempts to frame himself for a murder he had nothing to do with as a way to put the death penalty itself on trial—to demonstrate how a simple coincidence or two can cost an innocent man his neck.
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6. La Putain Anglaise (formerly Chickenfeed)
by Lorraine Mace Short Story, Literary Fiction 16 Jun 2008
When Claudette is told her father wants to make peace after fifty years of silence, she has some hard choices to make.
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7. Infidel Heart [version two]
by Kit Habianic Short Story, Literary Fiction 11 Jul 2008
Infidel Heart - a short story. July 7 2005: as a terrorist attack brings London's transport system to a halt, a young Muslim questions her choices as she waits for news of her sister.
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8. Old Horses
by B. F. Thor Literary Fiction, Novel 05 Jun 2008
Meet Louis and his best friend Campbell Feathers; two teenage wildmen trapped, temporarily, in small town hell. Louis's idea of rebellion is adding apostrophes to road signs, whereas Campbell Feathers unselfconciously inhabits an adult world of drink, drugs and illicit sex with his Mother's friend Barbara (or so he claims).
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9. Red Shadows (Revised)
by William McCormick Historical, Literary Fiction, Novel, Saga 05 Jun 2008
A failed revolution sets two brothers on a collision course.
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10. The Stasi File
by Peter Bernhardt Novel, Thriller 19 May 2008
An American lawyer and his lover from Berlin student days, now a budding Italian opera diva, are drawn into an assassination plot by a Stasi General, desperate to prevent the collapse of the East German police state after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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