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		<description>The original writings of author Sharrumkin</description>
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			<title>Walls</title>
			<description>Essay about walls</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/3125064/</link>
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			<title>City of Storms</title>
			<description>An essay about traveling to Baguio in the Philippines.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2949762/</link>
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			<title>Stalinism and Stamp Collecting</title>
			<description>Why did Stalin hate stamp collectors?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2947621/</link>
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			<title>Shooting Elephants in Vermont</title>
			<description>Young man meets an old man hunting elephants in Vermont.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2938183/</link>
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			<title>The Well of Nothingness</title>
			<description>A Canadian answer to Mister Trump</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2935420/</link>
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			<title>Not a Road</title>
			<description> A warning from one friend to another.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2929868/</link>
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			<title>The Pilgrimage</title>
			<description>Peter returns to his home village in Moravia.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2902095/</link>
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			<title>Matthew</title>
			<description>Matthew Foley discovers gold on his land.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2899522/</link>
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			<title>Elijah</title>
			<description>An old trapper and hunter enters Peter's life.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2895694/</link>
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			<title>Memories</title>
			<description>Peter is taken prisoner by the Confederates. His friends in Kilmarnock begin to assemble a rescue</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2895510/</link>
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			<title>The Captain at the Gate</title>
			<description>Peter flees back to the house in search of Alex. Following him is Maureen. Waiting in the house is an enraged Franz.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2893285/</link>
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			<title>Gilgamesh</title>
			<description>Thoughts on the Epic of Gilgamesh</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2893069/</link>
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			<title>Elena</title>
			<description>Ontario 1916 Elena Husak travels east from Toronto to meet her husband Nicolas, an escapee from an interment camp.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2889473/</link>
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			<title>Bartlett's Inlet</title>
			<description>Peter confronts an his past in the form of Katrina Leuger now Theresa Bartlett.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2889247/</link>
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			<title>Land and Roses</title>
			<description>Theresa (Katrina) Wagner looks back over her life</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2888911/</link>
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			<title>The Gift</title>
			<description>Dan buys Colleen a wedding gift.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2888589/</link>
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			<title>The Cross</title>
			<description>The Agades Cross a symbol of the Tauregs of the Sahara is adopted as their marriage symbol by Colleen and Dan causing trouble with Colleen's family.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2887036/</link>
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			<title>Politeness</title>
			<description>Dan's first time in Colleen's house. A promising start ends in disaster.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2886661/</link>
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			<title>The Reception</title>
			<description>An engagement party is being held for Mike and Linda.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2885773/</link>
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			<title>Going to Kanada</title>
			<description>Linda thinks of going to Canada.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2885228/</link>
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			<title>Aurora</title>
			<description>A Filipina girl's first day in a Canadian school.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2884543/</link>
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			<title>Duties</title>
			<description>Now married Dan adjusts to living with Elizabeth and Colleen.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2883770/</link>
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			<title>Malaria</title>
			<description>Mike becomes ill from malaria. Linda nurses him.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2883183/</link>
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			<title>The Stranger</title>
			<description>Peter returns at the beginning of 1862. He says goodbye to Maggie and the McKays.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2881062/</link>
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			<title>Colours</title>
			<description>Peter flees to New York to confront the long dead Radek.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2881059/</link>
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			<title>The Student</title>
			<description>A medical student in McGill Peter assaults a prostitute and fleas</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2881058/</link>
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			<title>Peter  </title>
			<description>Chapter One : The Student
Chapter Two : Colours
Chapter Three : The Stranger</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2881055/</link>
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			<title>The Coup</title>
			<description>Mike and Linda are caught up in a coup.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2880887/</link>
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			<title>Old Meg</title>
			<description>An old woman in Medieval England mourns the death of a former lover.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2880721/</link>
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			<title>The River</title>
			<description>An underground river flows to the sea</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2880620/</link>
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			<title>The Writer</title>
			<description>Colleen has died of a brain tumour leaving Dan distraught with grief. His old friends Mike and Linda desperate to help, propose that he write about their days in Nigeria.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2879992/</link>
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			<title>The Baobab</title>
			<description>A former volunteer in Africa thinks back on his memories of an incident in northern Nigeria.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2879638/</link>
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			<title>Civil Ceremonies</title>
			<description>Mike secures a transfer to Linda's school only to find that he has placed Linda in a difficult situation.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2879047/</link>
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			<title>Harmattan</title>
			<description>Dan in the cold dust filled air falls ill from a throat infection</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2878399/</link>
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			<title>An Hadejian Grave</title>
			<description>A road trip to Hadejia, plumbing problems and a lonely grave</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2878123/</link>
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			<title>The Garden</title>
			<description>Mike and Linda grow to know each other in Mallam Maduri.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2877416/</link>
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			<title>The First Class Cinema</title>
			<description>Mike meets Linda at the theater in Hadejia.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2876427/</link>
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			<title>Mallam Maduri</title>
			<description>A small town near Hadejia. Mike meets Filipina ladies at the market.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2876201/</link>
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			<title>The Zoo</title>
			<description>Colleen and Dan, just arrived in Kano, meet.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2875544/</link>
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			<title>The Lock</title>
			<description>A chapter of confrontations, the McKays, Ian and Peter are all forced to face their different pasts.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2874795/</link>
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			<title>Men Are Wretched Things</title>
			<description>An explanation of what makes the Iliad a classic</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2874793/</link>
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			<title>The Chest</title>
			<description>Alex opens up an old chest. From it he takes out a pair of pistols against the possibility of Radek returning.  In the morning he asks Peter top be his son.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2874318/</link>
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			<title> The Meeting</title>
			<description>Three men arrive in Kilmarnock claiming Peter. Only then does Alex begin to understand the boy's background.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2874072/</link>
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			<title>The Second Night</title>
			<description>Colleen and Dan meet for their second night together.  Now engaged Dan travels to Kano to be with Colleen.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2873985/</link>
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			<title>The Road to Hadejia</title>
			<description>Five Canadians travelling from Kano northeast to Hadejia.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2873626/</link>
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			<title>Colleen</title>
			<description> A man and woman working in Northern Nigeria fall in love.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2873499/</link>
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			<title>The New World</title>
			<description>In trying to escape from his world a boy only brings it with him.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2873011/</link>
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			<title>  Wedding Night</title>
			<description>Dan and Colleen share their first married night together.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2872301/</link>
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			<title>The Transfer</title>
			<description>Colleen worried about Dan travelling between Kano and Hadejia tries to get him a transfer.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2871946/</link>
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			<title>Simon</title>
			<description>Colleen must tell her boy friend, Simon, that she is getting married.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sharrumkin/2871577/</link>
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