Not only am I a columnist here on iPinion Syndicate, I also enjoy donning the proverbial podcaster hat on Conversation Accessories. This week, you’ll learn about a few of my fellow writers: Donald Sanders, Kelvin Wade, Carolyn Wyler, David Weinshilboum, David Lacy and Pat Rigley....
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Fiction
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Stephen Cooper
Columnist - January 16, 2018 in Fiction, Uncategorized
The New Era
Those who survived the holocaust never said “heat” when describing what happened in 2049. Instead, they called the aftermath of the apocalypse The New Era. When temperatures on the planet broke 140 F, millions died and civilization descended into chaos. “Hot” and“heat” became terms of...
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Kathleen Brotherton
Columnist/Youth Editor - June 25, 2015 in Columnists, Fiction
All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven — a review
There are moments in life that alter the way you view things indefinitely. This transpired yesterday as I thumbed through the stacks at my neighborhood library. I was on a mission. This mission was to find a story, something amazing to engage the brain of...
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Archives
- May 13, 2015 in Columnists, Fiction
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Her mother was in hospice, waiting to die. The daughter thought of the argument she and her mother had had about the rug. Six months earlier, the letter had come: “Now that you’re approaching 65,” the HMO said, “It’s time to remove rugs. The leading...
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Maya Stiles Parsons Spier
Columnist, Editor-in-Chief - June 29, 2014 in Columnists, Fiction
Yeehaw Slowly
The man can hear the waves whispering over the sand even from inside the house, but somehow, he cannot muster up the strength to move. The waves are whispering his name, but Man has chosen to ignore them. He knows that if he goes down...
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Kathleen Brotherton
Columnist/Youth Editor - June 27, 2014 in Columnists, Fiction
They All Fall Down
It was a brutal summer day. The heat had become oppressive. The kind of hot that no matter how hard an air conditioner clanked it was pointless. The relief of cool air was merely felt for a moment before your skin would crawl with droplets...
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Two works of fiction (maybe not)
CHAINS OF COMMAND At a meeting three months ago, they discovered a referral procedure wasn’t working. In fact, there wasn’t a referral procedure at all, nor a referral form, although they had all believed there had been both. They thought the problem would be easy...
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Kathleen Brotherton
Columnist/Youth Editor - June 16, 2014 in Columnists, Fiction
You will always be my girl
The swing It was hot. You could almost see the heat hanging in the air as the sun blared down upon the sticky tar of the tenement driveway. They were in the limited shade. She was perched upon a makeshift swing that hung from the...
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Archives
- February 14, 2014 in Columnists, Fiction
On Guard: A Valentine for the Older Set
One morning, she noticed a Kleenex on the desk in their bedroom. It wasn’t totally out of place since he regularly left paper towels around the flat. She usually found three or four in his office, one in the living room, one in the bathroom...
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Julie Parker
Columnist - December 27, 2013 in Bloggers, Columnists, Fiction
iPinion writers speak
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