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		<description>The original writings of author Robert Vicens</description>
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			<title>A Witch in the Tree</title>
			<description>Children's story... written many years ago. Does not show the craftsmanship I have developed since.  Decided to post it anyway and see what happened.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1538657/</link>
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			<title>Water</title>
			<description>The last glass of water...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1536838/</link>
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			<title>6. Afterward - The woman in the bed</title>
			<description>Tired, filthy, and emotionally scarred, Henry comes home.  Is the nightmare really over?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1535417/</link>
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			<title>5. Escape</title>
			<description>The demon house has him prisoner.  Can Henry escape?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1535407/</link>
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			<title>4. The Deal</title>
			<description>Henry makes a deal and doesn't even know it...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1535207/</link>
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			<title>3.  The Game Begins</title>
			<description>He dealt each of them two pocket cards. As soon as he had finished dealing, they began to make their bets. &amp;nbsp;Lenore seemed to have the upper hand for much of the game, though it alternated between her and Mr. Vanderbilt. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Every now and then there were words exchanged in hushed senten..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1534218/</link>
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			<title>2.  Inside the House</title>
			<description>In the dark, another world...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1534207/</link>
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			<title>1. The House and the Shadows</title>
			<description>A house in the shadows on 66th and 6th street lures Henry to it and swallows him in...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1534206/</link>
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			<title>The House on 66th and 6th street</title>
			<description>What if a house swallowed you and wanted your soul?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1534199/</link>
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			<title>Warning against &quot;abstract&quot; metaphors</title>
			<description>This can help you understand how to make your writing more concrete with funny examples...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533927/</link>
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			<title>5.  Victory - the Afterward</title>
			<description>Carlyle is dead.  The stranger, Bruce has won.  Or has he?  There is a strange stirring in the smoke of the bossman's remains...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533610/</link>
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			<title>4. Devil's Day</title>
			<description>The bossman, Carlyle, cannot be killed.  But  the stranger does not seem afraid.  In fact, it's almost as if he carries a secret.  Will it be enough to defeat the bossman?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533608/</link>
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			<title>3.  It Continues</title>
			<description>The stranger blew a hole in Carlyle's skull, and yet the devils cackle from his remains.  Is he alive?  Or is he something more sinister, like the undead...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533606/</link>
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			<title>2.  The Gunfight Begins</title>
			<description>Part I of the fight between the stranger and Carlyle.  How does the stranger know the bossman?  They seem to have a history...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533603/</link>
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			<title>1.  The Meeting</title>
			<description>Spec meets the stranger and gives him a gun. The stranger comes to challenge the bossman.  Does he know he's a demon?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533598/</link>
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			<title>Advice for Writers</title>
			<description>Channeling raw emotion:  How to take that b***h Heroin and own her...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533579/</link>
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			<title>Second Date</title>
			<description>I'm not sure she gave any reasonable hints that she wasn't enjoying herself... but by the end of the date, she  was.  Though he certainly wasn't...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533534/</link>
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			<title>The Challenge</title>
			<description>A stranger rides into town.  He challenges the bossman, a raping lunatic they say is a demon in human form.  Does the stranger come for justice, or to take the bossman's place?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533475/</link>
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			<title>A Memory of Knives and Blood</title>
			<description>The memory of a troubled mercenary from the days of his youth.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533472/</link>
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			<title>No Clothes</title>
			<description>How I got my first girl home.  And why she had no clothes.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533466/</link>
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			<title>The Stone</title>
			<description>Prologue to stories never told of how magic reached our land.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533463/</link>
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			<title>The Monster</title>
			<description>A man comes home, stressed from work, and just wants a couple of beers.   His wife puts up a fuss. Is she a nagging wife or is she afraid...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ravicens/1533460/</link>
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