March 27, 2017
You want to start a story with an enticing first line. Here are some first lines for your essays, short stories and novels guaranteed to peek reader interest. Or at least to peek their fear. Feel free to use them as writing prompts. If you get published, please pay me money. Any amount. Enough for a bar of chocolate.
Fifteen Future Famous First Phrases:
- I probably know more about humans than I know about my own species.
- I promise not to kill you if you read this entire story.
- This book explains the six easy steps you can take to achieve physical immortality.
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Posted by EricIndiana
August 27, 2016
The Question
Every poem is about What am I?
Every question is What am I?
The Universe demands to know what it is.
What am I? I am all of this and nothing
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September 5, 2013
This is a short story I wrote about the mysterious underwater dogs that I grew up with. This is an introduction to my adventures with them; later they would lead me to the horror of marauding bands of unicorns and the absurd yet insightful talking flowers in the underriver world.
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This is my 2007 thesis for Lesley University's Masters of Education in Curriculum Design, focusing in Conflict Resolution and Peaceable Schools:
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