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Testimonial: I used to be a hard core non-digital story reader. I still read a lot. Besides what I read here at WDC, my friends shared many books and magazines with me.
Then I got a tablet and while a tablet is backlit and so very nice for reading late into the night/morning without disturbing the spouse, it falls a bit short on the beach. I admit, not only does the sun make it difficult to read, taking your tablet to the beach and expecting the sand to stay out of its parts is equal to expecting the sand to stay out of your snacks. It doesn't happen. So the only time I hold paperbacks and magazines in my hand is sandy/wet/muddy/rainy and in general places that are not tablet-friendly.
The great thing about this site is you can take WDC with you anywhere. I read in the backyard, in the car, anywhere I choose to. It's a little hard to review while bouncing down the interstate, but you can get to know your fellow authors and read their work. You can always go back later and review the stories.
The nice thing about short stories is that they're like snacks. You get all the parts of the story arc, but in a bite size morsel. How many short stories have you read where you'd love to read or write more for the characters? I'm always imagining the story that brought the character to where they are in the short story, or where they go when the short story ends. The writers in our community are so creative, I love meeting their characters and diving into their stories.
Write On, and we'll keep reading!
This month's question: How many short stories have you read where you'd love to read or write more for the characters? Send in your answer/link below!  Editors love feedback!
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Excerpt: Virginia Clark choked back tears as she hovered over her wife's deathbed. Morning sunbeams streamed through the window but did little to cheer the hospice room. The bedside monitor bleeped in time with Maria's heartbeat, diminished vital statistics flowing across the screen like an ominous prophecy. Fifty was too young to die, but cancer wasn't discerning. Within the next few hours, Virginia's soul mate would die.
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Excerpt: My abrupt answer made the woman on the other end of the call pause like I had pulled a script out of her hand and thrown it over my shoulder. “I… sir, we need you to come in. There won’t be time for this check before liftoff tomorrow.”
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Excerpt: Katrina nodded towards the sleeping feline dreaming among purrs as the very wide awake witch read more Witch love potion history. She had an itch to know of the devil remembered and felt a twinge of that strongest of emotions bonding God’s creatures with their creator. “Hmm, Fancy. Wake up. Do my bidding.”
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Excerpt: Orders from the Führer himself, he read again from the slip in his hand. They would be expected to go down fighting, just as their enemy counterparts on the doomed Exeter had done…
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Excerpt: The stoop and yard stood empty. "How very curious." I scrunched my eyes, peering left and right, but not a soul stirred on the street. It is Sunday. Most are probably attending a service. "But, still, I am certain someone knocked."
Excerpt: Her father shook his head and answered, "Sure you aren't tired of that story yet? I must have told it to you a thousand times, and then a few more after that."
The response he got was a mere shrug of the shoulders, which prompted the old man to shake his head and sigh. The bamboo cutter had told his little princess the same story every night and every other day, yet that still was not enough for her. Kaguya constantly looked to the heavens as if she would spot the spacemen and their ship, but in her five years of living, she had never seen a flying saucer save for the time her parents had gotten into a fight. Until she did, she would have to be sated with her father's story.
Excerpt: He shook his head and was just about to go sit down in his recliner when a flash of lightning and a simultaneous clap of thunder lit up the street in front of his house, rattling the walls and making him jump. It was definitely close, if not right overhead, and in the lightning’s brief illumination, Charlie thought he saw some lone figure out there with their head buried under an umbrella, fighting against a strong head wind and the torrential downpour. With the raindrops on the big picture window obscuring his vision and the nearest street light out of order, he couldn’t be sure, but if he was a betting man, he’d throw $5 in the pot.
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This month's question: How many short stories have you read where you'd love to read or write more for the characters? Send in your answer/link below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: Have you used poetry to tell a short story?
Santeven Quokklaus  replied: The "storeom" is interesting - I had one accepted for publication maybe 10 years ago, a story about a guy who gets bitten by a werebear in rhyming couplets with a 14-14 syllable pattern, which the editor described as an epic poem (4k words)… I like the concept. Glad to see people are pushing it.
The Ink Maiden~ responded: This was an absolutely wonderful newsletter in my opinion. Personally, I just love poetry. One of my favorites is The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. I recently posted a new poem that I believe tells a story. It's called "Invalid Item" . I wrote it in dedication to one of my favorite movies of all time, How to Train Your Dragon.
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