First Place Winner Announced! Time For You To Vote For Your Favorite!
Yael Nussbaum Wins First Place Prize!
Our judges worked extremely hard reading and judging the batches of story submissions and have selected a first place story and four finalists.
We are pleased to announce that our First Place Prize has been awarded to Yael Nussbaum for her story, Pass the F---ing Salt! Now it's your turn to vote your favorite for People's Choice. The four finalists are:
- Educational Television by James R. Kincaid
- A Female's Touch by Daniella Marie Irvine
- Normal People are Those We Don't Know Well by Judi Blaze
- Red by Matthew Owen
The People's Choice winner will receive $500 and the three remaining finalists will receive $150 each. Let the voting begin!
For complete details please visit the Contest Page.
The End of Life Debacle
 At the risk of throwing a figurative match into a giant batch of kindling, I would like to weigh in on the subject of "end of life issues" that has prompted an angry response by citizens at town hall meetings in which they confront their elected representatives.
The issue is deeply embedded in the human psyche touching on the most basic philosophical and religious tenets that are fundamental to our concept of mortality. We know from the very moment when intelligence dawns on the human brain that we are going to die.
So what is all the mystery about? Of course people are angry. It is the paramount issue of human life. We are well aware of the inevitability of death. We are well aware too that the highest expenditures of government health care occur in the last year or so of life. Couple this fact with the necessity of saving money on our health care programs and what you get is the logical progression that leads inevitably to the of economics of dying. It is a costly business.
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But Is It Good For Authors?
 On the surface, the surge in the popularity of e-books and the proliferation of devices on which their content can be read seems like a boon to authors. At first blush the benefits seem too good to be true.
Books will never go out of print, a term that will have to be revised. In fact, all books that have been out of print, via Google's vast undertaking, will be reincarnated. Everything ever written and published will be available to everyone who is tethered to cyberspace, which means the bulk of the literate world.
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E-Sheets about Technology in Literature.
The Dividing Line
As I grow older, I have become fascinated by "pop memory" and the difference between what I deem popular and what younger people see as popular. This has led me to contemplate where the dividing line is between this generational phenomenon.
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E-Sheets about Nostalgia.
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