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			<title>THE HIND</title>
			<description>A MAN IS HAUNTED BY A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN AFTER SEEING AN ODD MYTHIC DEER.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1098014/</link>
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			<title>THE LAND OF THE GINGERBREAD NAZIS</title>
			<description>WRITING A STORY ONLY 100 WORDS</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1096618/</link>
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			<title>BOBBY'S FIEND</title>
			<description>A TERRIBLE 24 HOURS FOR BOBBY.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1088399/</link>
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			<title>PRESENCE</title>
			<description>The mound seemed to move on its own.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1079712/</link>
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			<title>MERRY CHRISTMAS, JOO-JOO</title>
			<description>A EARLY CHRISTMAS STORY</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1067230/</link>
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			<title>DEATH COMES A-KNOCKING</title>
			<description>A SHORT-SHORT, WRITTEN IN ONE SITTING.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1065739/</link>
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			<title>MY DOG</title>
			<description>A NEW PET</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1065067/</link>
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			<title>BELLBOY'S BLUES</title>
			<description>Of course, he couldn't fit 2.4 million in his suitcase. Sam buried most of it in an empty corn field. He only had ten thousand with him, ready to hit the crap tables. Sam was a notoriously bad gambler</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1049354/</link>
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			<title>HELLSPEAK PART THREE</title>
			<description>The demon came towards me. The tiny flies rose and formed their own winged Armada. Three groups were poised to burrow into my body and turn me into a bloated corpse.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1046467/</link>
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			<title>HELLSPEAK PART TWO</title>
			<description>I looked to my right and saw a pair of eyes glowing red. I looked to my left. There were at least ten more pairs of red eyes. I felt a hand brush me.  I gasped, felt my heart leap into my throat.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1046456/</link>
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			<title>JOURNAL OF THE BLACK LODGER (3)</title>
			<description> Her night dress fell to her feet revealing her naked body to God and me. At first I was horrified. Then aroused. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1037385/</link>
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			<title>JOURNAL OF THE BLACK LODGER(2)</title>
			<description> I slipped my pearl handled knife in my coat pocket. I was ready for the newspapers to print their next BLACK RIPPER story.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1036834/</link>
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			<title>JOURNAL OF THE BLACK LODGER (1)</title>
			<description>I wonder what Mrs. Beasley would think if she ever stumbled upon her Father's passionate art?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1036595/</link>
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			<title>OPHELIA</title>
			<description>The dolls were moving. Laughing, waving, heads spinning around.  They slid down the shelves and began to crawl across the carpeted floor, hissing, laughing, and crying out. It was shear chaos. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1031799/</link>
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			<title>DATE MOVIE</title>
			<description>Jeff picked up May at the drug store she worked at. He drove up in hisBenz,  and she climbed in. For the first time in her life, May wasn'tnervous about her date.  She felt like the luckiest girl  in theworld to have come across a guy like Jeff. A driven man in life, passionate. Driv..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1024687/</link>
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			<title>ANNIVERSARY</title>
			<description>A STORM KNOCKS OUT THE ELECTRICITY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF A WITCH BURNING.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1010492/</link>
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			<title>BOXCAR KID</title>
			<description>MAKING FRIENDS IS EASY, GETTING RID OF THEM IS HARD.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1009540/</link>
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			<title>DOLLFACE</title>
			<description>TONY ROBERTS NEEDS CONTRACTS SIGNED BY  HARDY JEEVES,THE OWNER OF A COMPANY TONY 'S COMPANY JUST BOUGHT. BUT HE HAS NO IDEA HOW STRANGE JEEVES AND HIS FAMILY IS WHEN HE MEETS THEM.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/1002193/</link>
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			<title>DANIEL DREAD</title>
			<description>He felt hot breath from a drooling gaping mouth with two long fangs. The rest of the monster slowly appeared, floating above Daniel. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/976266/</link>
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			<title>RISE</title>
			<description>A TRAGEDY TURNS INTO A STRANGE OCCURRENCE, ALL INVOLVED IS NEVER THE SAME</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/974224/</link>
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			<title>TRACEY</title>
			<description>Never despair,my love for you, is like the rays ofthe sun,shining throughthe dark cloudscovering a patch ofblue.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/970761/</link>
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			<title>SAND BETWEEN MY TOES</title>
			<description>I ran to the machine and pushed the over sized coin in the slot. I pushed the first button.

Everything went black.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/953354/</link>
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			<title>HELL TRAIN A-COMIN'</title>
			<description>I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned and saw a pale man in a train conductor uniform. He was smiling sideways at me. I felt odd. Happy, sad, angry...all at the same time. Jim scratch was his name.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/946033/</link>
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			<title>THE CAT'S PRIVATE EYE PT 6 : THE EYE</title>
			<description>THE EXCITING CONCLUSION OF  PRIVATE EYE JOHNNY ZERO, A FLOATING HEAD IN A SPIRIT CABINET.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/944660/</link>
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			<title>THE CAT'S PRIVATE EYE PART 5: A PARAGRAPH ABOUT A DEAD HAND</title>
			<description>JOHNNY ZERO, A FLOATING HEAD IN A SPIRIT CABINET and a private investigator.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/944068/</link>
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			<title>THE CAT'S PRIVATE EYE PT 4: A CURE IN HIS PANTS</title>
			<description>JOHNNY ZERO, A HEAD IN A SPIRIT CABINET, IS HIRED BY THE CAT MR.LIM TO BRING TO HIM COLETTA BARE, WHO HAS CAUSED JOHNNY CONSIDERABLE PROBLEMS.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/943973/</link>
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			<title>THE CAT'S PRIVATE EYE PART 3: COMA CITY</title>
			<description>JOHNNY ZERO, A FLOATING HEAD IN A SPIRIT CABINET, FINDS HIMSELF IN ANOTHER PREDICAMENT. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/943181/</link>
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			<title>THE CAT'S PRIVATE EYE Pt 2: THE BLOND HANDJOB</title>
			<description>WORKING FOR THE CAT, MR. LIM, JOHNNY ZERO IS ON HIS WAY TO COLLECT COLLETA BARE.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/942683/</link>
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			<title>THE CAT'S PRIVATE EYE</title>
			<description>PART ONE OF MICRO-FICTION ABOUT JOHNNY ZERO, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR AND A FLOATING HEAD IN A SPIRIT CABINET.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/941745/</link>
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			<title>LOST IN THE GARDEN</title>
			<description>A MYSTERIOUS GARDEN</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/939022/</link>
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			<title>BLACK HEARTS FOR THE DEAR LADY</title>
			<description>UNKNOWN NARRATOR TELLS THE TALE OF A BEAUTIFUL SONG THAT BRINGS MANY THEIR DEATH.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/938553/</link>
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			<title>BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME</title>
			<description>A LANDLORD TRYING TO EVICT THE LAST TENANT FROM HIS CONDEMNED BUILDING IS HANDED A COIN THAT CAN SAVE HUMANITY.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/930722/</link>
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			<title>EVEN IN ASHES, SHE SMILES</title>
			<description>WHAT HAPPENS IN THE FUTURE IF YOU DON'T PAY YOUR BILLS?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/902456/</link>
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			<title>THE GOD OF VENGEANCE</title>
			<description>A story meant for a pulp/blog i had started for a collective group of writers to contribute. The blog never caught on.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/895001/</link>
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			<title>PAN IS THE MAN WHO COUNTS TO FOUR</title>
			<description>A story meant for a pulp/blog I had started,  meant for more writers to get involved, it seems no one was interested.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/894996/</link>
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			<title>SIN-AWAY</title>
			<description>              &amp;ldquo;It cleans the soul. But only use it three times....or it will be too much.&amp;rdquo;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/830242/</link>
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			<title>HOLES</title>
			<description>                     Jory loved to draw holes. He would sit on the window seal of hisapartment, high up on the fourth floor and draw black circles allday. Sure he drew other things. Knights on their steeds tramplingmonsters under their large hooves. Beautiful maidens with monsters as..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/826008/</link>
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			<title>THE PASSENGER  BY Pauline Ramsey and mark slade</title>
			<description>        Great,she thought as she pushed her way through downtown traffic.Absolutely wonderful! Carrie Dessarault could feel the sarcasmseething through her body. She was going to be late &quot; again. Oftentimes, she felt just like Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit; alwayspressed for time and ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/822516/</link>
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			<title>LITTLE TUSK</title>
			<description>                                                           Emma hated yard sales. Her Mother, younger brother Ben,were dragged to a yard sale the week before Thanksgiving by her AuntFlora.                                  They had  to move in with Flora while Father was a..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/822142/</link>
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			<title>CHANNEL ZERO</title>
			<description>                                                                            I was standing in the middle of the dump withManny when we found magic in the form of Television.                                          I have found the best time to watch the peoplein my n..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/818826/</link>
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			<title>MENSTRUAL CYCLE</title>
			<description>                                                                                                                                                               August 25th                             He awoke laying in a pool of blood and a dead man in hisbed. The ma..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/810756/</link>
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			<title>MINDWAVES</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;          Anti-human laws were  punishable by death,  everything connected totwo women in their forties, the shadow didn't make a sound.  Almost aspiritual joy  if it were confused  inside her nervous system. Herbody felt a ringing like a bell going off.  The shadow w..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/808554/</link>
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			<title>SCREWED IN ELECTRICITY</title>
			<description>                              &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;              Drift off to sleep in their locked compartment, the only  timecurled up  after the Vision book shut down. Father's arm felt safe. Programmed hopes,desires,wishes, dreams, and sometimes regre..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/807622/</link>
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			<title>POOL OF BLUE</title>
			<description>                    Eli peered into the pool. Under the soft currents, thirty or more children floated aimlessly, their big black eyes distilled.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/798432/</link>
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			<title>SAILING WITH EARDROP FISH</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; We built the boat, Archie and I, out of&amp;nbsp; one thousand tiny Eardrop fish. Each one we called to the shore with Archie's Uncle Gilbert's giant conch shell. The queen of the Ocean appeared,asking what we would do with the fish. Achie told her of the splendid boat we would buil..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/797574/</link>
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			<title>DARK SKIES</title>
			<description> Moving faster than  anything he'd ever seen, it was leaving a trail of pink, green, and orange fire behind it. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/796820/</link>
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			<title>THE MOVIE</title>
			<description>           I start to panic. Scream, curse. Kick the seat in front of me. Try as hard as I can to set myself free. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/795812/</link>
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			<title>THE LONG WALK</title>
			<description>              The bathtub had become a sea of red.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/795234/</link>
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			<title>DEAD END FRIENDS </title>
			<description>A PETE CHAMBERS STORY</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/794119/</link>
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			<title>D.B. DUCK</title>
			<description>Goodbye to all my friends at home 
Goodbye to people I've trusted 
I've got to go out and make my way 
I might get rich you know I might get busted 

----JET AIRLINER  STEVER MILLER BAND</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/animalmother16/791194/</link>
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