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  Walk.

  

  By SeptemberCrew, Washington, DC

  A walk down my suburban street always proves to be thought-provoking. Maybe it’s just me, but something about walking past the places where people live every day of their lives, seeing their windows and doors without knowing what’s inside — it makes one pensive. I walked home and thought ab...
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  Six Words

  

  By SeptemberCrew, Washington, DC

  This is the opening line of a story penned by the great Ernest Hemingway. Incidentally, it is also the closing line. In fact, it is the only line because Hemingway once bragged that he could write a story in six words, and those six are what came of it. Interesting what one can capture with six w...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Five.

  

  By SeptemberCrew, Washington, DC

  November 18, 2010, 5:01 p.m., and the sun is already setting. I walk up the street to play with Three (Years Old) and Five (Years Old). Three has on a cherry red puffer jacket. “You're looking very cute today,” I tell Three. “I'm four years old,” says Three. And I realize that Thre...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Long Distance

  

  By SeptemberCrew, Washington, DC

  She phoned me last night for the first time in four months. She's leaving town and needs a ride to the Metro station. I said yes. I didn't ask her why she failed to return my call six weeks ago when my car broke down in the parking lot at the baseball field and the tow truck took a few...