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Drafting

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Written by: ugwerks
Category: Prose
Created: May 20, 2010, 4:06 am
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The thumb of the left hand is pressed tightly against the melamine surface of the parallel rule. The fingertips of this hand are pressed tightly against the face of an acrylic drafting triangle pinching it squarely onto the leading edge of the parallel rule. The hand is held tautly but not rigidly. The key is to clench the instruments firmly but flexibly, in a precisely fixed position.

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Frank Advice, by Frank Sanders

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Written by: Brandon_Hennen
Category: Prose
Created: May 15, 2010, 1:17 pm
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Frank Sanders is a nationwide syndicated columnist who dispenses his “hillbilly wisdom” to any who will listen.  Frank works as a painter and sometimes graveyard landscaper in Beckley WV.

Dear Frank  
Our small church here in Winchester Virginia has a very generous volunteer director. His wife is also a very talented soprano singer for
the church choir. She has had many write-ups in the local papers and is becoming a local “star.”

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Wrong turn, Right day

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Written by: Dana702
Category: Prose
Created: May 13, 2010, 9:38 am
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Suppose a man were a man? If this is so true and the later imposes the idea that one could be so different from the other what does this make you me? If a right is a privilege in the constitution why is it against the nature of a person in the right to deny ones self of their rights?

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Clock tower

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Written by: Dana702
Category: Prose
Created: May 12, 2010, 9:58 am
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Today is the day to conquer all things unconquerable!!! Just as it was yesterday and as it will still be the same when tomorrow comes rolling upon the bedroom clock...eyes wide never laid to rest...sleep or not the clock still turns the sun still rises and the day plays on with or with out you.

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Morgan and Sarah

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Written by: ugwerks
Category: Prose
Created: May 11, 2010, 12:30 pm
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“You don’t have to put up with that crap you know! You really don’t!”

There is a pause. Someone on the opposite end of the receiver is responding. Sarah immediately jabs back.

“Look just who replaced your spine with a rubber band?”

There is another pause.

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