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Hannah And Her Heart
As she twiddled with her stripey pajama sleeves, gazing out at the night stars through her moonlit window, she heard something. Hannah frowned in the middle of a yawn (which is quite a funny face to see), not sure what the noise had been and stopped fidgeting. Yes, there it was again. It sounded like a whisper…
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My proudest moment was probably being asked to read out my short story to the class when I was about thirteen. The exercise was to write a tale about the events that preceded a poem we were studying.I'll never forget that day.
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Life As We Know It
Judging By Appearances - Lessons LearnedI’d like to share a story about a girl I went to school with more than two and a half decades ago. She was, to us teenagers (so worldly wise we were at the ripe old age of around fourteen), considered rather odd. Her name was, let’s say, Anna.
Writing and Writers
The Lazy Person’s Guide to Creative Writing Are you one of those angst- ridden writers who scribbles in a frenzy with a wild eyed look on any scrap of paper he can find? No, neither am I actually.
