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Submitted to Contest #324
Beautiful Swimmer By Pat Holland Rain fell in torrents. Violent gusts of wind swept down the dark streets of Los Angeles. Near the YMCA, the streetlamps seemed to sway from the force of it, their cones of light weakened and distorted by the driving rain. At the end of the block a young mother dove for the only remaining parking space. Sighing as she undid the safety straps that pinned her daughter to her car seat, she said, "Come on Pearl, my little mermaid. Let's race to the Y." Then she thought to herself, it's a go...
Submitted to Contest #222
Every struggling new writer who has just earned a B.A. in English or a M.F.A. in creative writing needs a dose of the career advice E. B. White once gave me. He had very definite views on how to write—what to write about—and how to get it in print. As a very junior twenty-year-old researcher/writer at the National Geographic Society, I had an L-shaped office nobody else wanted because it held two desks. A scratched and worn brown desk sat in ...
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