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Short stories at east of the web. A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor ‘Bloody hell!’ - Genre: Humor Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. . - Length: 3 pages Henry pours more coal onto the hearth as a gust of wind rattles through the cracked window frame. . - Length: 14 pages - Genre: Horror ulissa Ye relished all the comfortable little routines and quietude defining her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown’s last small, locally-owned bookstore. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead.

. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: 18 Corporal Earnest Goodheart is crouched in a ditch on the edge of an orchard between Dunkirk and De Panne. . - Genre: Fiction - Length: 20 pages. Writershouses.com. CoffeeJitters Blog. Seattle Literary Hotspots. Seattle refuses to be pigeonholed. It’s a city surrounded by shimmering water and snow-capped mountain ranges; it’s also home to smoke-belching container ships and stinky fishmongers. It hosts sparkling, squint-at-the-perfect-sky summers and winters shrouded in fog, mist and melancholy. Beauty and sadness; wealth and obscurity; competing symbols of hope and doom—it’s hard to imagine a better city for writers to live. Plenty of them do, naturally, and following are the places they go for inspiration. Like most writers do, we’ll start at a bookstore. A force in the independent bookselling world for 35 years, The Elliott Bay Book Company is community-minded, esoteric and proud of its legacy as an architect of the modern-day author tour.

Down a spiral staircase is the Elliott Bay Café, a brick-walled coffee shop that was the inspiration for the café in the TV sitcom “Frasier.” If hardcore readers make a beeline for Elliott Bay, working writers go to RICHARD HUGO HOUSE (1634 11th Ave.). The Forbidden Library: Banned and Challenged Books. Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Word Stuff. Unsorted [/writers] James Patrick Kelly - Murder Your Darlings - "When time comes to make that final revision, however, you must harden your heart, sharpen the ax and murder your darlings. " Greda Vaso - Determining the Readability of a Book - includes formulas for Gunning's Fog Index, Flesch Formula, Powers Sumner Kearl L. Kip Wheeler - Literary Terms and Definitions L. Kip Wheeler - Comp - Lit - Poetry - Links - more Style - Grammar - Errors in English [/writers]American Heritage - Book of English Usage - free download Band-Aid AP StylebookPaul Brians - Common Errors in EnglishCJ Cherryh - Writerisms and other Sins The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ Gary N.

Curtis - The Fallacy Files - Logical fallacies and bad arguments Prof. Charles Darling [RIP] - Guide to Grammar and Writing The Economist (UK) - Style Guide John Eshleman - Logical Fallacies H.W. FreelanceWriting.Com / Freelance Writing / Writing / Creative Writing / Web Site for Today's Working Writers. Creativity Portal - Creative Thinking Muses Innovation Art Crafts Writing Humor. Writing.Com: Writers, Writing, Poetry, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Poetry Contests, Writing Contests.