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ANNOUNCEMENT: 2012 Literary Contest Winners

TWP Contest

1st Place: Taking Flight by JC Hemphill 2nd Place: Maaf Karo, Forgive Me by Sharmeen Farooq Congratulations to both authors, and to the hundreds of writers whose work we had the opportunity to read.

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Posted in 2012, Contests, News

Searching for Resonsance: Sorting Through Preconceptions of “Good” Literature, by Mike Vidafar

“…It may be that some great masterpiece that deserves immortality has fallen still-born from the press, but posterity will never hear of it; it may be that posterity will scrap all the best sellers of our day, but it is

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

Department of Repair and Recall for Robotics Industry, by Wes Bishop

“Hello, and thank you for calling Robotics Industry, the experts in robotics, AI, and cyber prosthetics since 2035! This call may be recorded to help improve the quality of customer service. If you know your party’s extension, you may enter

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Posted in 2012, Fantasy, Fiction

The Literary Battlefront: Blurring the lines between digital and traditional literature, by Mike Vidafar

There is a war about to begin, yet no blood will be shed. There is a change coming, yet, as is the way of things, most people won’t notice anything unusual. On one side, the rhetoric reads “what is at

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

Gone Huntin’, by Abra Staffin-Wiebe

The man stamped his feet hard against the stoop when he stepped outside of his cabin. It was an hour yet before sunrise and cold enough that his breath frosted the air, hanging white against the dark of the trees.

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Posted in 2012, Fiction, Literary

The Plight to Write: The Challenges That Aspiring Writers Face, by Mike Vidafar

At a time when prominent authors like Margaret Atwood are arguing for an increase in literacy (a direct result, she argues, of the internet and Twitter), and novelists (of all creeds) are seeming more “real” and accessible than ever before,

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

The Couple That Dreams Together, by Greg Leunig

I realize my dreams have been hacked when my wife and I get back to our apartment, around lunchtime, with two Dancin’ Doug Robots, and dump them both in our guest room, which has lately become a repository for the

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Posted in 2012, Fiction, Science Fiction

Though hands grow cold, the pen stays hot: Why the Winter season is conducive to writing, by Crystal Maitland

Winter is cold, yes, but perhaps it would be better to say that it is honest. Winter whips away the cover of lush leaves and plush petals; wriggles through armor of wool and fleece and down. It is not so

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

This Train makes all the Stops, by Len Joy

Hank knew where to stand. He had commuted on the Red Line for thirty years. When he boarded the train at Monroe Street he got prime position in the middle of the car, away from the crush of sweaty commuters

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Posted in 2012, Fiction, Humor

Babybox, by Simone Martel

Maddie darted across the bedroom carpet in her babydoll PJs, jumped up onto the chair and threw her stuffed pony into Carlotta’s face. “I won’t, Mommy. I don’t want to get into the box.” “Get in, sweetie, and tomorrow we’ll

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Posted in 2012, Fantasy, Fiction
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