The Teacher Layoff Shuffle Andrew J. Sacks

By state law, teacher layoff notices to Kindergarten through 12th grade teachers in public schools must be sent out by March 15. This is when the annual rite begins.

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The Sleeping Witness konradtademar

So often, are you as a blazing torch with flames of burning rags falling about you flaming, you know not if flames bring freedom or death.

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Diving for Pearls daphnia

The diving The harvest Pearls dying for pearls. The palette The painting True colours revealed. The paper The novel Dropped stitches of thought. The singer The opera Soul roaring from throat. The first kiss The climax Lust longing for love. The sunrise The sunset Most dying to live. The out-breath The in-breath Still....emptied....worlds. The diving [...]

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The Pitfalls of Writing Today Jack Eason

Like most writers these days, I simply fail to understand why Amazon seemingly encourages and condones what amounts to nothing more than often vicious attacks.

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The Hole Chantelly

Bone-Cracker roused to darkness and pain.  Disoriented, he tried to remember where he was and why, but shock clouded his thoughts and dirt clogged his mouth and nose, preventing him from thinking much at all.  He gagged and choked, digging blindly at the musty earth that threatened to suffocate him.  Eventually, he cleared away enough [...]

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Dublin Maria Costello

The worst part was when they looked away at the Liffey in the dark Darker than your eyes got thicker than the blood you spat harder than you hit me The River Liffey flowed to blackout like the night would swallow us up but I was left there to remember How the child in me [...]

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Lady Justice and the Assassin Robert Thornhill

CHAPTER 3 The old warehouse in the West Bottoms had once been a small manufacturing operation, but the previous owners had long since closed the doors and moved to a country where wages were cheap and labor unions were non-existent. It had set vacant for years until it was rented by ABC Ltd., a company [...]

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American Poppy Michael Douglas Bosc

I am not a British soldier American am I I fought for right and justice I did not want to die Wars are not for winning Men can only lose Fighting wars solves nothing Just gives us the blues We fought and won the battle But here I now must lie Side by side with [...]

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Querent konradtademar

The first resurrection is always the hardest The charioteer runs behind the chariot Riddles posed to us cannot be answered, the best – …solutions are not black or white, but morals of a harlot   The wheel spins like a knife let twirling: point on glass Clouds part, perplexity and paradox dance Dervish style I [...]

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Moonlit Daisy lgrund

For my sister Renee (7/29/64 - 5/9/12), still the sun that dries up all the rain. Death comes barreling down the tracks an express train rattling and whistling We try to race ahead but we can’t get off the track No matter how hard we run some of us fall on the tracks way too [...]

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Criticality (1): Hostage Situation (Series Premiere) Edmund Alexander Sims

Only a seemingly frail hand was exposed from underneath a heavy cotton blanket. Pete Rogue did not even make time to turn the bed back anymore. He merely slept on top of the fully made up comforter wrapped within that burgundy-colored blanket. Ironically, this was not even the cold season. The climate of the synthetic [...]

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Autism Diaries: The Things we Say Cynthia Emily Griggs - Niswonger

It's taken 3 years in Autism land to feel stronger about some of the things that are said in regards to my son's Autism. Often there would be pain kicked up by the most well-meaning of conversations or in the most casual of statements from friends, the public at large, or even family. I wouldn't [...]

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