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Article: Write your own science fiction ...
Fun For Kidz;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Have you ever read a science fiction story? Science fiction stories are ... cards. Use those four cards to write a science fiction story. For example, if you picked ... an undersea cave" you might write the following story: [ILLUSTRATION ...

Article: W.Va. teacher's book mirrors life: Educator wrote fiction ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  May 7, 2004 ;     547 words ... ... students after school and I said I always thought about writing a novel. And she said, 'Well, write a couple of pages.' "She said, 'If you write one page a day, in a year you'd have 365 pages.' And at the end of the year, I had my first ...

Article: OSWEGO STATE GRADUATE'S FICTION STORY WINS ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  July 18, 2004 ;     324 words ... ... University College at Oswego, won a prestigious Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize for his story "Divers." Capel was inspired to write the story when a close friend enlisted in the military before the Iraq war. Capel, whose prize includes an award of $1 ...

Article: RUNAWAY FUTURE IN THE WINNING INSTALLMENT OF OUR MILENNIUM-BASED ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 18, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... known. I want to believe. I truly want to believe that humans will survive. But I have tasted the future. I am afraid to write down anything about what happened that night in Hamburg when Their icy finger touched me, but I owe it to J so I will try my ...

Article: Eggers' non-fiction story Kafkaesque nonetheless
Winnipeg Free Press;  July 26, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Zeitoun By Dave Eggers McSweeney's, 342 pages, $31 When American Dave Eggers burst onto the literary scene in 2000 with his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, many critics considered him to be just another navel-gazing Generation X-er. With his past few books, however, Eggers has

Article: Bon voyage: a chance to make history. ...
Highlights for Children;  May 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ..."I don't remember volunteering for anything," said Duck. Duck, Sheep, and Rooster had just finished their midmorning snack when Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier strolled into the barnyard asking for volunteers to ride in their hot-air balloon. "Let's get them into the cart and take them to market,"

Article: San Jose State U. student's fiction story concerns ...
University Wire;  May 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Kevin Rand University Wire 05-15-2007 (Spartan Daily) (U-WIRE) SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A professor at San Jose State University no longer conducts his writing class because he said a student's story that fictionalized the killing of a professor, "had created an atmosphere of conflict in the classroom