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	<title>Short Story Library &#187; Offbeat Writings</title>
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		<title>It must be love – By Rosemary Bach-Holzer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosemary A. Bach-Holzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
She is such a vixen.
Who is? My car! Is that why ex-husband says she reminds him of me? Hmm&#8230; must remember to ask next time I see him. Anyway, back to this particular vixen in question.
She’s a real pedantic always-has-to-be-something-wrong-with-her automobile. Take this morning for example. She was low on petrol&#8230; all right! She was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the eye of the beholder – By Rosemary Bach-Holzer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosemary A. Bach-Holzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Remember those prints called “Magic Eye” that were so hip and of the moment a few years back?
They looked like leftover wallpaper from the early seventies except they hid a treasure chest full of three-dimensional (3D) surprises and the key in which to unlock them was held in your very own hands. Or, should I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parlez-vous Deutsch? – By Rosemary Bach-Holzer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosemary A. Bach-Holzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a language, German doesn’t do it for me. I think it’s both ugly and guttural. I didn’t speak German as a child despite growing up in a household consisting of one parent originating from north London and the other, Berlin. I might look upon it more favourably if I could speak it. I’m just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damon Hill, Doctor Kildare and me&#8230; still? – By Rosemary Bach-Holzer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosemary A. Bach-Holzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part One 
I’m supposed to enlighten you with an update? My fault, I suppose, for leaving my previous account on a real cliffhanger. What do you mean, not that you noticed! Hmm&#8230; I’m no longer in hospital. I made my escape, that is, I discharged myself after one night.
Not on my list of my most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology? Don&#8217;t get me started! &#8211; By Rosemary Bach-Holzer</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/09/technology-dont-get-me-started-by-rosemary-bach-holzer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosemary A. Bach-Holzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was sitting next to Bob (ex-husband) going through some photographs (cats and I are temporarily staying with him) he had up on his computer.
These digital cameras have a lot to answer for. They have people taking an abundance of photographs most of which, if we&#8217;re honest, are pretty useless. We scrolled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a New York City Street Peddler (Part 3 of 3) – By Dr. Howard Karlitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Karlitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the final part of a three part series. To start from the beginning, here is part one and part two
Epilogue: A Play in Three Acts
Act I:
It&#8217;s a week after David quit for good. He&#8217;s on the corner Fifth Avenue and 42nd street talking to a hot dog guy about then Mayor Koch backing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a New York City Street Peddler (Part 2 of 3) – By Dr. Howard Karlitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Karlitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of the 3 part series. Part one can be found here
 
But it would be impossible to close this chapter of the story without some pain. There were two periods during that summer when David thought they had him. The first was during the Democratic National Convention, which happened to take place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a New York City Street Peddler (Part 1 of 3)  – By Dr. Howard Karlitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Karlitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part 1 of a 3 part posting which will be published over the next few weeks
It&#8217;s February, 1980, and David Gordon is standing in front of a class of delinquent kids in a South Brooklyn juvenile detention center trying to teach reading. While patiently guiding them through a short story called &#8220;Young Pablo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damon Hill, Doctor Kildare and me &#8211; By Rosemary Bach-Holzer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosemary A. Bach-Holzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, due to lack of energy and a complete disregard for the creative process (I&#8217;m currently up a gum tree with my gumshoe) I sat down (well, laid down) to watch some old videos.
I&#8217;m not a fan of DVDs &#8211; so shoot me &#8211; neither is Ninja, my cat. She can&#8217;t eject them from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Diner &#8211; Grant J. Bergland</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/06/your-diner-grant-j-bergland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant J. Bergland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the place.
It is a vintage diner with stainless steel on the walls, bright red vinyl booths, and a percolating jukebox. Or it has cracked leather seats, patched with spiderwebs of duct tape and laminated menus with prices whited out and redrawn with unsteady lines. It is in a bustling city with people marching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Nature’s Wrath of Fire &#8211; By Mike Shusterman</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/05/mother-nature%e2%80%99s-wrath-of-fire-by-mike-shusterman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Shusterman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[PERSONAL HISTORY]
More than three decades ago Mike Shusterman was a student working as a forest fire fighter in Northwestern Ontario. The story he tells is an insight into the dangerous and frightening work of fire fighters in the Ontario forests as they try to save people, lumber, towns and property. The fire fighting system he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And now a word from our sponsor &#8211; By Ryan Sayles</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/05/and-now-a-word-from-our-sponsor-by-ryan-sayles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Sayles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now a word from our sponsor:
Greetings. My name is _______________ and did you know that six out of ten marriages in America today result in divorce? In some wedding vows the happy couple has begun to replace the phrase ‘til death do us part&#8217; with ‘until our love ends&#8217;. Divorces are costly; many easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pavarotti on the Ward &#8211; By RD Armstrong</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/04/pavarotti-on-the-ward-by-rd-armstrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RD Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a first-timer, the surrealiality of life in the hospital was not lost on me. I had managed to go 57 years without a single overnight stay (with the exception of my debut back in Lafayette, Indiana in the winter of 1951). Now here I was flat on my back in a ward with three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters &#8211; By Adelaide B. Shaw</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/03/letters-by-adelaide-b-shaw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adelaide B. Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter writing, real letter writing, the kind of letter writing that gets saved by the recipient, not for posterity as an historical missive or a great literary creation, although many letters have been given this status, but as a remembrance, is not practiced as it once was. Progress has replaced pen and paper with technology.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Providence &#8211; By Henry F. Tonn</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/02/divine-providence-by-henry-f-tonn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry F. Tonn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time two Iraqi teenagers were sent to the grocery store to purchase some food for their families. Along the way they were apprehended by American military personnel who considered it most suspicious that two teenagers should be wandering around in broad daylight with a full fledged war going on. The two boys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Win a Short Story Contest with a Dead Baby &#8211; By Michael G. McLaughlin</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/01/how-to-win-a-short-story-contest-with-a-dead-baby-by-michael-g-mclaughlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael G. McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to win a short story contest?
The obvious: No typos, spelling mistakes, faulty grammar, exotic and/or experimental styles like stories with no capital letters or a 13 page story as one run-on sentence. Gratuitous use of the words: &#8220;f@%k&#8221; &#8220;s$#t&#8221; &#8220;mother f#$%^r&#8221; &#8220;c*ck s&#38;^$#r&#8221; &#8220;shag me till I&#8217;m dry&#8221; or &#8220;anal sex is fun with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber-space sado &#8211; By Fiona Holloway</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/01/cyber-space-sado-by-fiona-holloway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Holloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook, myspace, Bebo: what&#8217;s your haunt? After a quick fling with myspace, I quickly became a facebook convert. The first few months were great. Every new friend request sent me into a flurry of anticipation and excitement: who&#8217;s it going to be this time? With enthusiasm I joined as many groups as I could and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Centralia &#8211; By Nick Allen</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/01/centralia-by-nick-allen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Centralia was a thriving mining town, population around 2000, in Pennsylvania. Its prosperity came from the fact that it sat upon 24 million tons of a special long-burning type of coal called anthracite. The anthracite was its downfall too.
In 1962 a fire at a tip on the edge of town ignited a seam of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Errant Odyssey – By Roger Freed</title>
		<link>http://shortstory.us.com/2009/01/an-errant-odyssey-%e2%80%93-by-roger-freed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billie Cook always suspected she had brothers. She had photos from her father that showed his first wife and the two boys they had sired. They had returned for a visit to their native Germany in 1939. For all Billie knew they had never returned.
Ms. Cook would often question German visitors to her hostel on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Jerk nearly Spilled my Dairy Queen Soft Serve &#8211; By Scott Wittrup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wittrup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Story of Rage on the Road. Trust me its a must read.
So I&#8217;m driving with my buddy Geoff down a street in my hometown of Toronto, go Argos, and this 1999 Buick Skylar pulls out and cuts me off so I slam on the brakes throwing my friend Geoff right forward in his seat [...]]]></description>
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