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Format: 2013-06-19
Format: 2013-06-19
Red Lemonade's picture
2 weeks ago
15 Comments
Conversation
A thread for more prominent display of uploaded manuscripts based on the theme.
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Ted Stephenson's picture
17 weeks ago
85 Comments
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Red Lemonade's picture
29 weeks ago
14 Comments
Conversation
WELCOME!  Ready to join the COHORT ?  Email us at cohort@redlemona.de with any questions.   Writers: read the Red Threads below for some background on cohort and our submission request.     Also: We are...
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Brian McFarland's picture
5 days ago
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Blog post
With the release of my novel this month, I am jump starting this blog. Mostly it will focus on novel writing theory and the strange materials I encounter while writing my next novel. Longer texts will appear here, while shorter snippets...
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Richard Melo's picture
1 week ago
8 Comments
Manuscript
Novels take ages to write. I am slowly, slowly posting chapters of my third novel. These are rough cuts of the first three chapters, and feedback is welcome, appreciated, and taken seriously. In time, the novel will be filled with dark humor, lefty...
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Dave Sterner's picture
2 weeks ago
9 Comments
Chapter
ExoSkeleton By Dave Sterner   The worst people are like insects, hard exoskeletons but no bone.  Bing knew plenty of people like that over the years, knew it was best to give them a wide berth.  Unless you couldn’t avoid...
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Dave Sterner's picture
2 weeks ago
64 Comments
Chapter
Smiles and thanks for all the insight and comments.
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Dave Sterner's picture
2 weeks ago
6 Comments
Chapter
Cheers and Thanks for all the comments.
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Brian McFarland's picture
2 weeks ago
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Blog post
The recent posts on the Red Lemonade Blog ended with a call to action and a declaration for ' You and Yours ' to join and share in our online publishing community. The previous post sought to provide some clearer parameters on...
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Red Lemonade's picture
2 weeks ago
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Blog post
  Richard Nash bravely proclaimed 500,000 indie presses. I have a Google Drive spreadsheet that I add to everyday that includes communities with publishing 'wings' and independent presses that are driven and guided by a particular...
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Dave Sterner's picture
2 weeks ago
1 Comments
Manuscript
This is a story I've been smacking about for a while about long term hospital care and the nightmare of being forced to endure a life bed ridden, drugged and artificially ventilated. The story itself is missing a bit of its soul, I'm...
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John Tormey's picture
2 weeks ago
1 Comments
Manuscript
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John Tormey's picture
2 weeks ago
8 Comments
Chapter
At the end of a morning safety briefing the supervisor tells us, “As far as I know, this tie-job will be abolished October eleventh.” Two weeks. The tie job will be over, the railroad moves on. The meeting continues. The foreman reads...
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Richard Melo's picture
2 weeks ago
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Chapter
A daytime moon is a lucky charm, but how does one explain a moon that shines by day? It’s not as difficult as a nighttime sun, which is at least ten times as rare. A nighttime sun turns night back into day, which explains why you don’t...
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Red Lemonade's picture
2 weeks ago
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Blog post
Red Lemonade is a publishing platform for a particular niche of literary fiction. Writers and readers can collaborate creatively in an online writing workshop with editorial tools for comments and suggestions. In addition, the processes,...
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Red Lemonade's picture
2 weeks ago
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Blog post
There was a bookstore you and he used to spend hours in, near your home in Suburban Texas, called ' the boat’, because it literally had a small boat in the middle of it: the sides were made of bookshelves with a firm wood bow and a...
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Red Lemonade's picture
2 weeks ago
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Blog post
  Its happened before- it keeps happening- but the screaming comes after the rockets arrive, that’s when the sorting begins, the marching orders arrive, the typewriter-agents get enlisted. It’s the age of the post-explosion,...
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Red Lemonade's picture
2 weeks ago
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Blog post
  The current writing initiative demonstrates a ‘bite-size’ or more narrowly focused expression of the overall mission statement of Red Lemonade  Cohort:  1.       Stories...
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Brian McFarland's picture
3 weeks ago
107 Comments
Conversation
What's on the night table? Or perhaps your Kindle/Nook ?
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Sarah Pascarella's picture
3 weeks ago
11 Comments
Manuscript
Mary, an out-of-work struggling actress, takes a job as a call-in "Virgin Mary" at the titular hotline. It's a new role, she reasons, to tide herself over until she can return to the stage. Peggy, a health-education teacher at an all-...
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John Bateman's picture
3 weeks ago
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Chapter
The perks of being a senior associate is that, as a partner-in-training, I get to delegate. And, seeing as how my brief had either survived Gertrude’s scrutiny or had already undergone the bloody pen, I wasn’t willing to stick around...
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John Bateman's picture
3 weeks ago
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Chapter
Ok, so after all of my bitching, why haven’t I let go and just quit? I started this gerbil wheel so damn fast that I’ve been running just to keep up with the spin, hoping that I don’t lodge myself between the tiny little gaps and...
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John Bateman's picture
3 weeks ago
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Chapter
After Mitch’s phone call, Rose came into my office. This time, she was the one on the verge of tears. “So what happened this time?” as if I needed to ask. “My neckline. She said my NECKLINE is too low.” “What...
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John Bateman's picture
3 weeks ago
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Chapter
I don’t know what happened next, or how long I stayed on the cliff. When I first woke up from surgery, still in a drug-induced haze, I was in a quiet, white room. For an instant, I wondered if it was hell. I turned and saw tubes and heard...
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John Bateman's picture
3 weeks ago
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Chapter
I’ve never been to Pamplona, or Spain, for that matter. When Red gets back from flirting with the new nurse, I’ll suggest that we go. I imagine the running of the bulls to be a metaphor for working at this firm. Associates charging...
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