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Richard Edwards has a BFA in Creative Writing and Journalism from Bowling Green State University and an M.S. in Education from the University of Akron. Managing editor of Drunk Duck, poetry editor for Prairie Margins, reporter for Miscellany, Akron Journal, Lorain Journal, and The BG News. He has also worked as a professional writer and editor in the medical publishing industry for several years. For the last 15 years Richard has also taught literature and writing at the secondary and post-secondary levels. He works much of the time with at-risk students.

A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway

Posted on April 2, 2011April 2, 2011 by Every Writer

A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway

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The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots by George Pope Morris

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Every Writer

The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots by George Pope Morris Look into those they call unfortunate, And, closer view’d, you’ll find they are unwise.?Young. Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any foolish shift: Tis haste Makes waste: Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand Holds none at all,…

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A Helpless Situation by Mark Twain

Posted on March 30, 2011August 9, 2017 by Every Writer

A Helpless Situation by Mark Twain Once or twice a year I get a letter of a certain pattern, a pattern that never materially changes, in form and substance, yet I cannot get used to that letter—it always astonishes me. It affects me as the locomotive always affects me: I say to myself, “I have…

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Bald-Face by Jack London

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Every Writer

Bald-Face ?by Jack London “Talkin’ of bear??” The Klondike King paused meditatively, and the group on the hotel porch hitched their chairs up closer. ? “Talkin’ of bear,” he went on, “now up in the Northern Country there are various kinds. On the Little Pelly, for instance, they come down that thick in the summer…

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The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood

Posted on March 26, 2011October 28, 2017 by Every Writer

The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that…

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The Servant by S. T. Semyonov

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Every Writer

The Servant by S. T. Semyonov I Gerasim returned to Moscow just at a time when it was hardest to find work, a short while before Christmas, when a man sticks even to a poor job in the expectation of a present. For three weeks the peasant lad had been going about in vain seeking…

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A Story of Seven Devils by Frank R. Stockton

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Every Writer

A Story of Seven Devils ?by Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) The negro church which stood in the pine woods near the little village of Oxford Cross Roads, in one of the lower counties of Virginia, was presided over by an elderly individual, known to the community in general as Uncle Pete; but on Sundays the…

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Clay by James Joyce

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Every Writer

Clay ?by ?James Joyce The matron had given her leave to go out as soon as the women’s tea was over and Maria looked forward to her evening out. The kitchen was spick and span: the cook said you could see yourself in the big copper boilers. The fire was nice and bright and on…

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The Magic Mirror by Edith Howes

Posted on March 20, 2011March 20, 2011 by Every Writer

The Magic Mirror by Edith Howes There was once a wise old king in a far-off land who said to himself, “I have a daughter as well as a son; why should she not have a kingdom too? I will see to it at once.” He called the chief map-maker to him, and said: “Make…

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The Purple Dress by O. Henry

Posted on March 13, 2011March 13, 2011 by Every Writer

The Purple Dress by O. Henry ? We are to consider the shade known as purple. It is a color justly in repute among the sons and daughters of man. Emperors claim it for their especial dye. Good fellows everywhere seek to bring their noses to the genial hue that follows the commingling of the…

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Little Red Riding Hood by Watty Piper

Posted on March 9, 2011May 6, 2024 by Every Writer

Little Red Riding Hood by Watty Piper There was once a sweet little maid who lived with her father and mother in a pretty little cottage at the edge of the village. At the further end of the wood was another pretty cottage and in it lived her grandmother. Everybody loved this little girl, her…

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The Gloria Scott by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Posted on March 8, 2011June 3, 2024 by Every Writer

The Gloria Scott by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “I have some papers here,” said my friend Sherlock Holmes, as we sat one winter’s night on either side of the fire, “which I really think, Watson, that it would be worth your while to glance over. These are the documents in the extraordinary case of the…

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Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery (Video)

Posted on March 6, 2011March 6, 2011 by Every Writer

We have never published a short story video here before, but the video stays true to the story. We enjoyed it and hope you will as well.

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An Ideal Family by Katherine Mansfield

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Every Writer

? An Ideal Family ?by Katherine Mansfield That evening for the first time in his life, as he pressed through the swing door and descended the three broad steps to the pavement, old Mr. Neave felt he was too old for the spring. Spring?warm, eager, restless?was there, waiting for him in the golden light, ready…

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The Sphinx Without A Secret by Oscar Wilde

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Every Writer

The Sphinx Without A Secret ?by Oscar Wilde ?? One afternoon I was sitting outside the Caf? de la Paix, watching the splendour and shabbiness of Parisian life, and wondering over my vermouth at the strange panorama of pride and poverty that was passing before me, when I heard some one call my name.? I…

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