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WRITER'S SHOWCASE
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2013 Stories


Note: This year our stories are cataloged by our new contest year of September 1 to August 31

• May

• Richard Franklin Bishop
  Dueling Banjos

• April

• Paul Marion Fleetwood
  A Typewriter Needed Cleaning

• Ellie S. Thomas
  AMTRAKING East to West

• March

• Patricia M. Snell
  Traveling in Canada and to the Moon

• Richard Franklin Bishop
  My Friend Duane

• Paul Marion Fleetwood
  A New House on Newhouse Avenue

• February

• Joe Williams Loller
  The Story of my Life

• June Huwa Whiting
  Requiem for Tyler Clementi

• Paul Marion Fleetwood
  The Preacher

• January

• Richard Franklin Bishop
  Notes on the Nippur Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania

• Richard Franklin Bishop
  On the Importance of Not Deserting Your Post, or Why I Did Not Become An Actor

• December

• Biographical
  Ellie S. Thomas
  It Was Better Than We Knew

• Travel Story
  Supriya Ambwani
  A Boat in Keoladeo

• Lane Dooling
  Love Cubed

• November

• William Wayne Weems
  A Life of Crime

• William Wayne Weems
  Tribute To Ron

• October

• Ellie S. Thomas
  Lily of the Mohawks

• September

• Brittany Arnold
  Lost and found

• Anna Kiefer
  Life on Overdrive

• Margie Hofman
  Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

• Richard Franklin Bishop
  The Night That The Franklin Died

• Richard Bishop
  Haying

• Ellie S. Thomas
  And So I Left Home

  2012 Stories
  

  Note: This year our stories are cataloged by our new contest year of September 1 to August 31

• August

• Travel Story
  Sheila Sowder
  Hey! That's MY Little Red Bag!

• Travel Story
  Gayle Thawley
  Doomed

• Isabel Bearman Bucher
  The Stream

• Reba Darling
  Beggin' and Barterin'

• Travel Story
  Renee C. Johnson
  Down The Rabbit Hole With Alice

• Travel Story
  Carol Kloskowski
  Memories in the Making

• Travel Story
  Ellie S. Thomas
  Our Penultimate Vacation

• Richard Bishop
  My Fear of Heights

• July

• Travel Story
  Steven Hunley
  Flipper Does Tahiti

• Dale Fehringer
  At Odds With The World

• Travel Story
  Bea Hyde-Owens
  Cordova

• Nancy Massand
  Mechanics and Spelling

• Carol Kloskowski
  Oak School

• Steven Hunley
  The Honey Bee Fire

• Travel Story
  Steven Hunley
  Jet Blue to Heart of Darkness

• Travel Story
  Ellie S. Thomas
  Laguna

• Richard Bishop
  Threshing

• Ellie S. Thomas
  Destination: Adirondack Mountain

• Steven Hunley
  Yesterday's Favorite

• Richard Bishop
  Early Soccer

• June

• Frank Mann, Jr.
  Tow Boat Tow Boat

• James Sclater
  CoCola Before Church

• May

• Angela Martinez
  Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

• April

• Richard Bishop
  Out West

• Richard Bishop
  Buttered Rice

• Barry M. Murphy
  Roller Skates to Rolls-Royce

• March

• Richard Bishop
  We Got The Juice

• Richard Bishop
  Trouble In River City

• February

• Ellie S. Thomas
  A Fort Called Blunder

• January

• Ellie S. Thomas
  Old Man River

• Peter Merkl
  Joe Namath's First Marathon

• Margaret Windler
  I Lost My Friend In Texas

• December

• Ellie S. Thomas
  The Business and Pleasure of Writing

• November

• Sara Berelsman
  The Light

• Supriya Ambwani
  A Special World

• Steven Hunley
  Long Beach Transit – 60 Cents

• October

• Travel Story
  Ellie S. Thomas
  Alone, And on the Loneliest Highway in America

• September

• Nancy E. Parolisi
  Commencement

• Richard Bishop
  Pamplona, U.S.A.

• Richard Bishop
  A Person Ought To Have A Dream

• Richard Bishop
  You Don't Know About Lonely

  2011 Stories
  

  Note: This year our stories are catalogued by our new contest year of September 1 to August 31

• August

• Travel Story
  Cinnamon Geppelt
  The Warwick Battle

• Travel Story
  Sonja Herbert
  Oktoberfest

• Gayle Thawley
  If Only

• Travel Story
  Mary McIntosh
  Christmas Breakfast in th Himalayas
• Travel Story
  Mary McIntosh
  Along The Khyber Pass

• Travel Story
  John Campbell
  My Recycled Catamaran

• Megan Cooper
  Shadow of Death

• Travel Story
  Jaclyn Jaeger
  Heaven On Earth

• Shivaji Moitra
  In Pursuit of Happiness

• Richard Bishop
  Looking Smart In College

• Richard Bishop
  Birdshot Buck

• July

• Zachary Beck
  Is Racism Racist?

• Andrea Bowyer
  Fear Transformed

• June

• Travel Story
  Nayanna Chakrbarty
  The Himalayan Rhapsody

• L. H. Rhodes
  The Devil's Torch

• Lauren Shanahan
  He Stays With Me

• Travel Story
  Ellie S. Thomas
  Rambalin' Through Saranac

• May

• Lauren Jaworski
  An Unexpected Gift

• Lauren Jaworski
  Good Girls Don't, But I Do

• April

• Diane Sesler
  Don't Forget Us

• Peter Merkl
  IRS, I Love You

• Robert Flournoy
  I Still Remember Tony

• Debbie Russell
  Southern Charm and a Glass of Ice Tea

• Ellie S. Thomas
  When The Russians Landed

• Dale Fehringer
  87 Denslowe Drive

• March

• Jaclyn Jaeger
  Remember Me

• Rei Delian
  Imagery

• Darrel G. Smith
  Nature's Advice

• Larry Appleton
  The Fishing Trip

• Ellie S. Thomas
  When Authur Was King

• Richard Bishop
  Just Eighteen...

• February

• Ellie S. Thomas
  School Days, School Days

• Ellie S. Thomas
  The House That Crime Built

• Steven Hunley
  The Martians in our Kitchen

• January

• Michael Lewis
  Death of a Frog

• Karen Treanor
  Harley in the Hospital

• Dale Fehringer
  Paul Meuse

• Angela Marie Reynolds
  Close Encounter of the Heart Kind

• December

• Steven Hunley
  Christmas 1952

• Peter Merkl
  A Christmas, and Golf, Story

• Travel Story
  Renee C. Johnson
  What Is It About Paris?

• November

• Samuel Ngomba Njumbe
  The Prize of Disobedience

• Maria Francis
  A Star In Heaven

• Larry Appleton
  You've Got A Friend

• October

• Dale Ferringer
  Healing Minds and Hearts

  2010 Stories
  

  Note: This year our stories are catalogued by our new contest year of September 1 to August 31

• Award Winners

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• August

• Travel Story
  Karen Ferrick-Roman
  The City of Sisterly Love

• Travel Story
  Mamta Murthy Dalal
  Sleepless in Sikkim

• Richard Bishop
  Fleeting Nostalgia

• Jane King
  The Asteroid Persuasion Society

• Michael Crifasi
  The Napalm Dog

• Travel Story
  Cinnamon Geppelt
  Look to the Right, But Stay to the Left

• Travel Story
  Rich Conley
  Sentimental Bridge

• Pearl Mitchell
  Grandparents

• Dody Johnson
  Twenty-One Years With Muffin

• Geary Smith
  The Little Candy Maker

• Isabel Bearman Bucher
  El Cajon

• Travel Story
  Mary McIntosh
  SNAFU

• Travel Story
  Susy Kelly
  Margie Mullins

• Laurie Levinger
  Hiking

• Travel Story
  Emily Waite
  Bhutan...

• Travel Story
  Charlotte Quimby
  Burying Andrew

• Laurie Levinger
  Coach

• Mary McIntosh
  Piano Lessons

• Travel Story
  Laurie Levinger
  Mikvah

• Travel Story
  M. Byron
  Jesting With Rabies

• Gayle Trawley
  Flames of Fear

• Patricia Sicilia
  You're Gonna Make It

• Anna Joujan
  Of Heat and Light

• Jason Brooks
  Goober

• Travel Story
  Meredith Hodges-Boos
  Given Names

• Travel Story
  Anna Joujan
  God Be With You

• Alan Solano
  The Loss of a Son

• Travel Story
  Meghan Fitzgerald
  Steps in the Sky

• Travel Story
  Ciro De Rosa
  Church of St. Peter in Vinculis

• July

• Lisa Hendrickson
  Silver Lining

• Karen Treanor
  We Went to the Dogs

• June

• Joanne Wilson
  Fond Farewell

• Cheryl Hoyle
  Miss Molly

• Debbie Kim
  Where's My Superhero

• Summer Sargent
  Walking A Mile...

• Valerie Fee
  Mr. Wrong

• May

• Dale Fehringer
  Celebrating Mark Twain

• April

• Kailey Bray
  Acrophobia

• Janis Rychlik
  The Awakening

• Travel Story
  Lowell Harp
  Above the Rocks and Beneath the Stars

• November

• Travel Story
  Nicole Breanne
  Ella and Her Magic Bubbles

• Dale Fehringer
  Bringing Joy To Children

• Bodhan Chambul
  My Service in the Ukrainian Division

• October

• Mary McIntosh
  My Father and the Wonders of Nature

• Travel Story
  Isabel Bearman Bucher
  Wrong Way Boat

• Travel Story
  Alexandra Caudra
  Touring with the Poor and the Infamous

• September

• Travel Story
  Kim Laffont
  Eat, Paint, Love

• Peter Merkl
  A Parent's Trilogy

  2009 Stories
  

  Note: This year our stories are catalogued by our new contest year of September 1 to August 31

• Award Winners

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• August

• Jenny Beet
  De-Schooling

• Travel Story
  Jessica Gardner
  A Day In Calcutta

• Travel Story
  Birgit Starmanns
  Three - Tres - Trois Encounters

• Kevin Miller
  Creativity

• David L. McClure
  Sooner or Later

• July

• Travel Story
  Susy Kelly
  Two Days In Memphis

• Travel Story
  Hira Silat
  Tsukuba Travels

• Dody Johnson
  A Day At The Beach

• Travel Story
  Tammie Painter
  Clarissa Falls

• Travel Story
  M. R. Lyman
  Looking Back

• Dody Johnson
  The Doctor Is Ready

• Travel Story
  K. S. Anthony
  La Vrai Paris

• Travel Story
  Patricia Sicilia
  It's A Fair...

• F. M.
  My Concussion...

• Travel Story
  Jessica Marquis
  An Ultimate Moment...

• Karen Treanor
  A Tree in Mundaring

• June

• Mary McIntosh
  The Great Depression

• Jason Brooks
  Waffle House

• Travel Story
  Kara Carlson
  California Quest

• Carina Allison
  Funeral

• Pearl Mitchell
  Shoes

• Leah Faulkner
  Time To Go

• May

• Travel Story
  Pearl Mitchell
  Mission Trip Wanderlust

• Pam Matthews
  A Walk With My Father

• John Poole
  Unpaid Debts

• E. M. Hosmanek
  Tracking Jack

• Travel Story
  Jasmine Maharisi
  Oaxaca, Mexico

• Gayle Thawley
  Ambushed By An Invisible Brigade

• April

• Travel Story
  Jane Adams
  Ni Hao-Talking Our Way Through China

• Cheryl Alexander
  Knockout: A Favor For Mom

• February

• Peter Merkl
  What I Did On My Christmas Vacation

• Robert Wozniak
  The New Year and the Old Economy

• December

• Michael Millar
  Prank Call

• November

• Shivaji Moitra
  Love and War

• George A. Smyth
  Two Stories

• September

• Dale Fehringer
  The Orange and Black Butterfly

  2008 Stories
  

  Note: This year our stories are catalogued by our new contest year of September 1 to August 31

• Award Winners

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• August

• Travel Story
  Joshua Taylor
  Visiting Grandma and Grandpa

• Travel Story
  Alizah Salario
  The Madame Bovary Syndrome

• Nirvana Huntington
  Sharp

• Haila Eggleton-MacKay
  Remembrance In Wool

• James D. Sanderson
  The Theology of the New Testament Church

• Gayle Thawley
  A Confederate in the Cemetary

• Travel Story
  Melissa Myers
  Real Men Take Turkish Baths

• Travel Story
  George A. Smith
  Fortress Of Louisbourg

• Jammie Trigg
  I'm Not A Chicken

• Riley Wessels
  How The Corporate World Killed Me

• Hadassah Cornish
  One Night Stand Kinda Gal

• Travel Story
  Vanessa Stoffel
  Lucky Drunk

• July

• Travel Story
  Carol Kloskowski
  Back To Nature

• Jordan Mierek
  I Am Not A Boy

• Valerie Thomason
  I Waited

• June

• Patricia Sicilia
  A Yankee in a Southern Karaoke Bar

• Kay Harper Sons
  When I Went to the Moon with a Wink and a Prayer

• Stephen Joseph
  Fulfillness Final Finale

• May

• Megan Anderson
  Mom 101

• Margie Hofman
  He Has Gone

• April

• Wally Hoffman
  Polebrook and The Death of a Flying Fortress

• Patti Iverson
  Magnificent Maggie

• March

• Stacey Small
  Tales of Only-ness

• Travel Story
  Richard Conley
  Fraternity and Neruda

• February

• Travel Story
  Eric Roman
  The Mission

• December

• Richard L. Provencher
  A Collection of Stories

• Mary McIntosh
  My Serendipity Travels

• October

• Karen Treanor
  Besieged By Bandicoots

  2007 Stories
  

  Note: Our stories are catalogued by our contest year of October 1 to September 30

• Award Winners

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• September

• Travel Story
  Robin Ruddy
  Living a Dream

• Travel Story
  Nancy Hatten
  Traveling With An Adult

• Travel Story
  Craig McCarthy
  Next Stop Canada

• Margaret Rutaquio
  The Definitive Hair Cut

• Birgit Starmanns
  Please Speed Up, Ma'am

• Rebecca A. S. Thomas
  The Anatomy of a Reaction

• Chelsea A. Kerrington
  The Denny Girls

• Travel Story
  Carol Ryan
  The Textbook Tibetan Trek

• Julie Ness
  Do I Look 40?

• Travel Story
  Nikoo Yahyazadeh
  An October Weekend In Queens

• Elise Crawford
  Spiritual Intervention

• Kamela Jordan
  Fried Locusts

• Nancy Hatten
  True Confessions

• Matthew Thompson
  A Job of Power

• Travel Story
  Steven Douglas Elwood
  Wrong Highway

• Joni Bour
  The First General Order

• Travel Story
  Laura Bennett
  A Hungarian Night to Remember

• Steve Holland
  Fishing For Seniors

• Mike Shelton
  We All Have A History

• Travel Story
  Haila Eggleton-MacKay
  Sea Storm

• Dale Fehringer
  The Shelling of Ft. Stevens

• Travel Story
  Mary E. Whitsell
  Hong Kong Detour

• Travel Story
  Janice Bockelman
  The Art of Lingering

• Janet L. Powell
  The Ghost

• August

• Kelley Maroules
  The Visit

• Ilaria Dal Brun
  Dead Horses Around A Hole

• Shivaji K. Moitra
  Fatsam and Darky

• Travel Story
  Richard Conley
  Tales of a Fledgling Educator

• Jerry Vilhotti
  The Right-Cross Kid

• Samuel Ngomba Njumbe
  For The Love Of Sarah

• Samantha Brooks
  Fields of Gold

• Diana Lange
  Farmers, Bankers, and Robbers

• July

• Eva Bell
  The Lure of Cults

• Lance Wills
  Two Tigers

• Liza de Sousa
  Mr. Toffee the Pony

• June

• Jonathan Gifford
  Three Wishes

• Kelly Wallace
  I Can't Believe He's Mine

• Travis Roelfs
  Beyond the Headlines

• Mary McIntosh
  An Empty Envelope

• March

• Eliza Bicknell
  The Dream of a Lifetime

• Denise Hetrick
  Beautiful

• Erin Manzarpour
  Married to a Germaphobe

• Travel Story
  Angela Baerg
  UnBelizeable

• Angela Baerg
  Maul in the Family

• February

• Craig Rittase
  Swing Set

• Judith Nakken
  Shoes and Lies

• Erasmus Osais Austins
  Choice of the Gods

• Elizabeth H. McKinney
  Decoration Day

• Richard Loller
  June 13, 1979

• William Wayne Weems
  Floyd's Box

• January

• Whitney Fleming
  Ripples

• P. S. Gifford
  The Dentist Visit

• December

• Cole Bolchoz
  Fire Lacking Flame

• Emily Anthony
  My Superman

• November

• Whitney Fleming
  Seeking Justice For Alicia

• Travel Story
  Whitney Fleming
  It Never Gets Easy

• October

• Travel Story
  Jessica Coleman
  Our Costa Rica Anniversary Moon

• Eric Roman
  Medelite Mambuella

• 2006 Stories

• Award Winners

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• September

• Travel Story
  Birgit Starmanns
  The Antidote

• Judy Wirzberger
  Fried Bologna and Forgiveness

• Travel Story
  Mamta Murthy
  One Morning at Mahabalipuram

• Steve Holland
  Gaseous Explosions for $400, Please

• Christopher J. Stephens
  Three Essays

• Travel Story
  Lila Nordstrom
  Reality in French

• Dale E. Sperling
  The Fire

• Travel Story
  Cody Short
  On-Going Gray

• Ngaio Carlisle
  A Prayer for Africa

• Christopher Thomas Schmidt
  Behind the Yellow Line

• Travel Story
  Joel Carillet
  Touched By Strangers

• August

• Celeste Leon
  A Lucky Man

• Gina Asermely
  Take Nothing but Photographs, Leave Nothing but Footprints

• E. M. Schmoll
  Murder Most Legal

• Michele L. Tune
  Mother Nature

• Travel Story
  Sonja Herbert
  Peace in the Valley

• Sonja Herbert
  Hot Pepper

• Travel Story
  Peter Sturman
  The Road To Enlightenment-1982

• Pam Mathews
  The Clock

• Emily Feldman
  Truths Revealed about Family, Love, and Life on an Easter Sunday

• Pearl Watley Mitchell
  Skeletons Wear No Shoes

• July

• Merced Perez-Hall
  Walking Hours

• Geary Smith
  Just To Dance With Daddy Again

• Travel Story
  Mary E. Whitsell
  No, We're Not In The Japanese Red Army

• Travel Story
  Robin Lentz
  Fitenenana

• Travel Story
  Debbie Madison
  Wild Mustang Country

• June

• Courtney Burback
  The Time Machine

• Barbara Poelle
  Running From Justice

• Juan Antonio
  Mancha

• Joni Bour
  What I Learned at Twenty-three

• May

• Travel Story
  Derek Tober
  Plumb Blossom

• April

• Travel Story
  P. S. Gifford
  An Unforgettable Trip Home

• Paul Alexander Moeller
  Daddy's Plane Trip with a 3 Year Old

• E. M. Schmoll
  Nine Hundred Miles to the Hospital

• March

• Onie Grosshans
  The Radio

• Anna G. Joujan
  Once Upon a Story

• February

• Erin Chilcote
  Ramblings of a Stay-At-Home-Mom

• Lisa Azima
  False Paridise

• Joshua E. Taylor
  Mexican Kindergarten

• Meagan Bautch
  Why I Am Me

• Ngaio Carlisle
  African Sunset

• January

• Azra Dzaferagic
  The Advantages of a Disadvantage

• December

• Derek Twain
  "On To Oregon"

• November

• Amber Phousongphouang
  Mother Bunny

• Eric Lehman
  The Story of the Garbage Drop

• James Bassett
  Evan

• James Bassett
  Gracie, Heaven, Helen, and Evan - My Two Emu

• Alys Culhane
  A River Remembered

• Stephen Goswami
  Autobiography of an Indian Pilgrim to Christianity

• Irving White
  Standing On The Shoulder Of Precious Lord

• October

• Lee Dickman
  Let There Be Light

• Travel Story
  P. S. Gifford
  Barbados - The Crown of the Caribbean

• 2005 Stories

  Note: Our stories are catalogued by our contest year of October 1 to September 30