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Thanks for the insight and your thoughts. :}

Holding a piece of family history in your hands, really gives you a unique perspective on your past relatives. The story was told to me by my grandfather while I held it in my hand. It was the gun that killed his fathers sister. I rolled it over in my hands while he spoke. She was fifteen...

Trish Excellent advice, I appreciate your perspective and insight.

I am working on a story, "realistic horror" told from the viewpoint of the bad guy or "monster" . The object of his affection or obsession is the girl next door. Good looking, healthy and sexually appealing he can't get her out of his head. The problem, or perceived problem is that as a man it...

When I looked at those falls the first time, I thought if those froze over and there was about 3 feet of snow, I could ski down them. I guess life is all about perspective.

It is a tourist destination in the heart of wine country. With more cows than people.

Welcome to the forum, looking forward to seeing some of your work.

Congratulations on the win. Sometimes a story just clicks, I think it is the little subtle hints given along the way that lets a reader feel and imagine what is happening. "Smiling sweetly" Sounds like you have enough meat for a story with the outline you mentioned....lots of possibilities to...

I grew up thinking I was going to be a dairy farmer from the time I was 12. I worked as a herdsman when I was first married. I don't think it ever gets out of your blood. There is a lot to be said about being in tune with the weather and cycles of the earth.

The Falls next to my. house are 65 feet tall, the ones in front are 168 feet tall. When the ice goes out it shakes the house. It happens all in a matter of minutes, a lot of years it happened at night. I am hoping to be able to see it today, we are going to get an inch of rain

Rain today. More importantly, a little time off. I clear land for farming. We are always in a rush this time of year to get as much done as we can before the frost comes out of the ground and we have to do things like spread manure and start plowing for spring planting. The days in the winter...

On a more serious note. I remember as a kid having only one spooky old building that was in town, it was an abandoned old hospital. I remember looking in the window, somehow expecting to see blood and pain and the tragedy of life, somehow contained in the empty room. While I saw none of that...

A real short Ghost Story. Humor. My Roommate The room was cold. Laying in bed, warm under the blankets, keeping as still as I could, I concentrating on my breathing. Maybe he would go away if he thought I was asleep. He was at the end of the bed, I could not see him as much as sense him. Low...

Thanks for the welcome back. I think it is as much of a mental hurdle to understand no one is good at anything without being bad at it first, While some learn quicker than others we all start at the bottom.

It might sound funny to you, but we used to back up our documents on a floppy disc. You can't find anything today that can read a floppy disc. Then it was a memory card, I don't have anything today that will read a memory card. You used to be able to always go back to a writing site like this...