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Cow in snow
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The Snow Field by Mark Scheel

A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me...
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Data
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Lab Notes by Deb Stark

Date: 2031/08/23 Project: 4957dbfj (Group #1)   Introduction: The focus group consists of six millennials; three males, two females, and...
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Infinite Possibilities
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Infinite Possibilities by Neil Tully

You were born with pale blue eyes. You were born with white skin, a palm-tree-shaped birthmark behind your left knee...
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THE PARLOR: Dissection Day by Chris Struyk-Bonn

Two classes later, I walk into Advanced Biology consumed with worry about what Mr. Crouse will say to my parents,...
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Would would have won by a bloody country mile
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By a Country Bloody Mile by Jamie Guiney

You turn the corner. Two high windows already open like eyelids. The house awake. Mum slows the car. Puts the...
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Pub in Ireland
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Stirring by Margaret Cahill

Seanie Flanagan pulled the duvet up around his ears and tried to ignore the niggling ache of his bladder. It...
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First rains
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The Dark Cloud by Swetha Amit

Not a speck of cloud. No sign of rain. Second year in a row. Kishan looked up at the blazing...
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Graveyard black and white
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Annie by Steve Passey

Backhoe Bob sat in the gas-station diner with the Sheriff, who also happened to be named Bob. Locals have been...
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Deserted
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First World by Mark Jones

I started going to bed early and getting up at four each morning to sit in the chair and stare...
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Hand by Shannon Castor
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Hand by Shannon Castor

He held up the phone so that only half of her mother’s face shown in the screen window. “Is this...
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push mower
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Genius Loci by Dominic Rivron

“Morning. Got a visitor?” said Tony. Tony lived next door. It was Tuesday – bin day – and we’d both...
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The big list of farm books
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The Largest List of Farm Books

Farming is an essential part of the human story. Although the number of farmers is declining world wide, many people...
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Old farmhouse for Jeremy Paden's poems
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The Homesteader’s Son and Other Poems by Jeremy Paden

Trees
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SERIAL MEMOIR Part 2: Working in a Shake Mill by BJ Omanson

Night Shopping, by Noah Siela
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Night Shopping, a song by Noah Siela

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