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    In Flagrante Delicato

    By Cole Matthews

    Getting "caught in the act" is the most common translation of this Latin phrase.  It involves a person being very naughty and someone 'walking in on them.'  I'm proposing these prompts because sometimes our characters can get just too nice.  Our protagonist can be too "pro" and our antagonist too "mean".  Sometimes having our main character suffer a character flaw, or two, can lend more authenticity to a story.  Let's stretch our wings and try something a bit nasty.   #223 - You are in
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 06 Jun 2022

June 6th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Claudius of Besançon Ini Kopuria (Anglican Church of Melanesia, Church of England, Episcopal Church) Marcellin Champagnat Norbert June 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) D-Day Invasion Anniversary Engineer's Day in Taiwan Korean Children's Union Foundation Day in North Korea Memorial Day in

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Review: Center of the World

“The Center of the World” is a tessellated coming-of-age youth novel, which is about the 17 years old Phil, who has a crush on Nicholas, who’s a new classmate. Phil and his twin sister Dianne experienced a very different parenting style, practiced by their mother Glass and her friend Tereza, and their mother is well-known to be quite promiscuous in their small town—a fact that doesn’t make life easier for the siblings. Phil’s father (“Number 3”) is somewhere in America and a huge variable in his

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June CSR Feature: Dolphin Delivery by Carlos Hazday

So I'm a huge sucker for ocean animal stories--even if they aren't paranormal ones. As one of GA's most popular authors, I knew if I picked one of Carlos' works, readers would love to share their thoughts and comments on the discussion day, and it's been far too long since his last CSR feature. So if you have a short reading window, pick this story to read, or reread! As a bonus, Carlos has 4 total Earth Day stories to enjoy, so you can keep reading if you get caught up in his storytelling. 

My Daily Bread Crumbs 05 Jun 2022

June 5th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Arbor Day (New Zealand) Christian feast day: Boniface (Roman Catholic Church) Dorotheus of Tyre Genesius, Count of Clermont Blessed Meinwerk June 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day (Denmark) Father's Day (Denmark) Indian Arrival Day (Suriname) Liberation Day (Seychelles) President'

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Weekly Wrap Up (May 29 - Jun. 4)

I was thinking of skipping the Wrap Up this weekend as I don't know if anyone is around ? I mean it is the May long weekend down in the US of A and it is the Queen's Jubilee Celebrations in the UK. BTW, do you Brits call every long weekend a bank holiday? Not sure how that works. Here in Canada we had our long weekend the week before. Where in my neck of the woods it would be better to wait another week so we don't get snow  Yes, snow. Actually up until about 10-12 years ago, I used to make

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My Daily Bread Crumbs 04 Jun 2022

June 4th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Filippo Smaldone Francis Caracciolo Optatus Petroc of Cornwall Quirinus of Sescia Saturnina June 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Birthday of C. G. E. Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland and the flag flying day of the Finnish Defence Forces (Finland)[44][45] Emancipation Day or Ind

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Catering

Catering Ok...let me start this entire article off with three simple words when it comes to catering to your audience. K? DON’T...DO...IT!!! Please don’t. The temptation is going to be there, and you may even get a lot of praise and admiration for trying it out...but at the end of the day, the ONE thing that is going to separate you from a billion other writers online is going to be your personal voice. Your thoughts, your feelings, you sense of humor, your drama...you have a chanc

My Daily Bread Crumbs 03 Jun 2022

June 3rd 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Roman Empire: Festival for the goddess Bellona. Christian feast day: Charles Lwanga and Companions (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances: Martyrs' Day (Uganda) Clotilde Kevin of Glendalough Ovidius Vladimirskaya (Russian Orthodox) June 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Prompt Us!

We always tell you what to do. Write a story, a poem using this or that. I thought we could do it the other way around this Friday. You tell us what to write. For example, @Valkyrie Write a story beginning with a Valkyrie, an Erinys, and an Oracle meet at a spa, or @Cole Matthews Please write another sonnet. (He will probably kill me for this.) So, good-bye if you don’t hear from me anymore. If there is more than one prompt, we get to choose and the rest go into the guest prompt bank.

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My Daily Bread Crumbs 02 Jun 2022

June 2nd 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Children's Day (North Korea) Christian feast day: Ahudemmeh (Syriac Orthodox Church).[53] Alexander (martyr) Elmo Felix of Nicosia Marcellinus and Peter Martyrs of Lyon, including Blandina Pope Eugene I Pothinus June 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Civil Aviation Day (Aze

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Grammar Guide 22 - cApiTalizaTion

This week we talk about when to capitalize and when not to (in grammar, not in money). Capitalization is when you place the first letter of the word in uppercase and the rest of the letters in lowercase. ✅DO - First word of a sentence and every first word after a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point ✅DO - Proper nouns like "Statue of Liberty" 🗽 but ❌DON'T capitalize "the" preceding the proper nouns like "the Statue of Liberty"  ✅DO - days of the week

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My Daily Bread Crumbs 01 Jun 2022

June 1st 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Children's Day (International), and its related observances: The Day of Protection of Children Rights (Armenia) Mothers' and Children's Day (Mongolia) Christian feast day: Annibale Maria di Francia Crescentinus Fortunatus of Spoleto Herculanus of Piegaro Íñigo of Oña Justin Martyr (Roman Cat

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My Daily Bread Crumbs 31 May 2022

May 31st 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anniversary of Royal Brunei Malay Regiment (Brunei) Christian feast day: Camilla Battista da Varano Hermias Petronella Visitation of Mary (Western Christianity) May 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) The beginning of Gawai Dayak (Dayaks in Sarawak, Malaysia and West Kalimantan, Indonesia) World No Tobacco Day (Interna

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hetero-like: cis man and gay—burning questions and insecurities of gender expression

When I found out about my own homosexuality, I was thirteen. I didn’t want people to think, I was a certain way because of my attraction to other men. I insisted on being hetero-like (this concept is similar to cis passing for trans people, as far as I know). But as time went on, I realized that I realized that I had to stop worrying about what other people thought of me. Easier said than done, of course, but at least I took tiny steps in the right direction. Maybe, one day, I won't care about i

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My Daily Bread Crumbs 30 May 2022

May 30th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anguilla Day, commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution in 1967. (Anguilla) Canary Islands Day (Spain) Christian feast day: Ferdinand III of Castile Isaac of Dalmatia Joan of Arc Joseph Marello May 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Indian Arrival Day (Trinidad and Tobago) Lod Massacre Remembrance

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