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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.

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O.Henry

Posted on November 8, 2023December 7, 2023 by Every Writer

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to.

From the Cabby’s Seat by O.Henry

Posted on November 7, 2023December 7, 2023 by Every Writer

The cabby has his point of view. It is more single-minded, perhaps, than that of a follower of any other calling. From the high, swaying seat of his hansom

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott

Posted on November 5, 2023November 5, 2023 by Every Writer

“Yes’m,” answered two meek voices, and after a few irrepressible giggles, silence reigned, broken only by an occasional snore from the boys, or the soft scurry of mice in the buttery, taking their part in this old-fashioned Thanksgiving.

The Manhattan Club by John RC Potter

Posted on November 4, 2023November 26, 2023 by Every Writer

In the early 1990s I had just emerged from a long-term relationship (my first as, and with, a young gay man) that ended with more of a whimper than a bang. Being pro-active by nature, and more social than I am now, I decided that my sister and closest friends and I

The Mummy’s Foot Théophile Gautier

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Every Writer

I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called marchands de bric-à-brac in that Parisian

You Complete Me by Adele Evershed

Posted on October 28, 2023November 26, 2023 by Every Writer

The year before, she was like the last prom dress left hanging on the rail, a bit sad but still hopeful. Then he walked into her life, all clichéd–tall, dark, and handsome

The Pumpkin Giant by Mary Wilkins Freeman

Posted on October 28, 2023 by Every Writer

A very long time ago, before our grandmother’s time, or our great-grandmother’s, or our grandmothers’ with a very long string of greats prefixed

The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Every Writer

William Legrand, who discovers a peculiar gold-colored beetle while on Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina. Legrand is obsessed with the scarab beetle and makes drawings of it. Later, Legrand receives a scrap of parchment paper with a cryptic coded

A Vampire by G. J. Whyte-Melville

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Every Writer

Recurring encounters over many years with the mysterious and alluring Madame de St. Croix, who seems to maintain eternal youth and beauty while spellbinding a succession of men, is she a vampire?

The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling

Posted on October 23, 2023May 28, 2024 by Every Writer

“The Mark of the Beast” helped popularize and cement the werewolf as a staple figure in horror fiction. But many examples of werewolf literature existed for centuries prior to when Kipling published his story in 1890.