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Non-fiction / Ghost Hunted

Created by martykate about 5 hours ago

Since I’m writing a book about a ghost, I thought I’d share my opinions and personal experiences and maybe find out fro

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Non-fiction / Hiking San Francisco Part III

Created by sahewitt about 15 hours ago

Fort Miley, the Sutro Baths and Ocean Beach

The trail eventually completes its course around the point to F

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Non-fiction / Imperialism and Iraq

Created by icomeanon 1 day ago

There are a variety of opinions regarding the war in Iraq. For some, it is a tiresome subject that is to be avoided at all

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Non-fiction / Hiking San Francisco Part I

Created by sahewitt 1 day ago

Wild Places in San Francisco

San Francisco is one of the great walking cities. A stroll down any one of num

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Non-fiction / Hiking San Francisco Part II

Created by sahewitt 1 day ago

The Presidio

All of this area, beginning with the Golden Gate Promenade, has all been within the confines o

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Non-fiction / Stormy Weather

Created by sahewitt 1 day ago

Spring on the eastern seaboard can be a tumultuous season. The wind roars; the rain falls in torrents. There is also the po

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Non-fiction / Taking away credits--

Created by anonymous 2 days ago

—for writing non-offensive, yet cheerful critiques is WORSE than actually making an offensive comment.

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Non-fiction / Life Journal 4

Created by tisha 2 days ago

My Hero

My mother and I may not have always had the best relationship. Namely because I thought I knew ever

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Non-fiction / Commitment Phobic: the father daughter dance

Created by MissChris 2 days ago

A strong stride and step, perfectly timed to music that is the dance that gets us from one end of the aisle to the other. I

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Non-fiction / in decision

Created by MissChris 2 days ago

The charcoal slowly engulfs every clean surface, infecting the room like a cancer. The clean linens of the ultra white bedd

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Non-fiction / In the absence of sleep

Created by MissChris 2 days ago

The ceiling fan’s soft hum lulls me into a superficial sleep. The cool air moving across my shoulders, making me burrow d

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Non-fiction / "Orphan"

Created by mysterianne 2 days ago

“Orphan”

“A crippled, crawling,curious girl,
stumbled into light;
her fractur

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Non-fiction / What if?

Created by Speedracer2009 3 days ago

I still love you.  Maybe I’ll never stop loving you.  I sometimes think about the what if’s…

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Non-fiction / Crash and Burn

Created by sahewitt 3 days ago

It was late. At the time of this story, I was working in a traveling club band, mostly in the New England area. Our home ba

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Non-fiction / Life Journal 3

Created by tisha 3 days ago

Walking to School

My earliest days of school are mostly a blur to me now as I try to recall them. The earli

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Non-fiction / Writer, Party of One

Created by goofygoober168 Prolific-icon-small 4 days ago

Trying to do anything constructive for longer than five minutes in my house is like trying to escape from a lion’s den wh

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Non-fiction / Eggs...er, Food for Thought

Created by goofygoober168 Prolific-icon-small 4 days ago

        Chickens tend to dislike having people poke around in their nests, stealing

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Non-fiction / "Orphan"

Created by mysterianne 4 days ago

“Orphan”

“A crippled, crawling,curious girl,
stumbled into light;
her fractur

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Non-fiction / Sea Stories (Chapter 6)

Created by sahewitt 9 days ago

Coastal Run

After yet another run around the ports of the Pacific Rim, I was once again in San Francisco, m

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Non-fiction / How Soundbytes Cannibalize the Big Picture

Created by Bronwyn 10 days ago

After reading the book, “Sleeping with Extraterrestials,” it occurred to me that very few people these days wou

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Non-fiction / There is a gun in my locker!

Created by cheyenne_marshall 10 days ago

“Here take this” Tone said.I think, “fuck this is it, this is big. He really trusts me now.” He sho

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Non-fiction / Tiger Tricks

Created by tinfish 11 days ago

        Tigers belong in the wild.  The few people who spend any amount o

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Non-fiction / Middle Man

Created by HarryVann 12 days ago

So there I was on a flight from Nairobi to Khartoum in the summer of 2005 stuffed into the middle seat between two of the m

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Non-fiction / Sea Stories (Chapter 1)

Created by sahewitt 12 days ago

There is a long tradition of storytelling by men who “go down to the sea in ships”, commonly known as “yarns”. Typi

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Non-fiction / Finding Her

Created by WIREDJAG 13 days ago

Her heart pounds hard against her chest. She fumbles forcing herself up from the grounds. Twigs and leaves bundle in her ha

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Non-fiction / Flight to Port au Prince

Created by HarryVann 13 days ago

Enroute to Port au Prince in the summer of 1995 I made a connection at Miami International Airport.  The transfer

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Non-fiction / PFC Thomas DeRay Cameron

Created by KJEghdami 14 days ago

   When I hear Thomas’ name, I instantly think of his mischievous smile and his laugh. He used to call me Mrs.

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Non-fiction / Life Journal 2

Created by tisha 14 days ago

The Big Couch

There are a few memories I have about the first house we ever lived in. What I mostly remembe

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Non-fiction / Life Journal 1

Created by tisha 14 days ago

The First New House

I don’t know how many times I’ve began to try and tell my life story but I always f

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Non-fiction / Essay and short auto-biography for admission into the Cumbres scholarship Program

Created by zombie_penny 14 days ago

“Endings are usually sad. Beginnings are usually scary, but it’s the middle that counts.” My grandmother loves saying

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