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    Assortment 4: Assortment, #4
    Assortment 4: Assortment, #4
    Assortment 4: Assortment, #4
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    Assortment 4: Assortment, #4

    By D. Reed Whittaker

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    This is the fourth collection of short stories. As with the other three, there is no theme, no specific genre, no fixed format. Most come from contest submittals at www.writing.com. The nice thing about these contests is it gives the writer a chance to venture out of his/her comfort zone. Sometimes, you'll be asked to write all the dialogue with no descriptions. Other times, it will be only dialogue without tag lines or beats (who said what, and what were they doing when they said it).

    The stories can be short (less than 300 words) or long (up to 2500 words). They can have any theme or prompt – a poem, song lyric, a picture, a comic book cover, anything. The goal is to develop as many writing skills as possible. You never know when you'll need a new approach.

    I hope you like these. If you don't, please let me know what I can do to make the story better.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntercede LLC
    Release dateAug 20, 2018
    ISBN9781386247296
    Assortment 4: Assortment, #4
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    D. Reed Whittaker

    Retired engineer creating worlds I'd like to live in and people I'd like to know. It's been fun meeting/creating MarieAnne, Steve, Bill, Maggie, Sylvia, Smitty, Linda, Billy, Suzy, Ken, Molly, Dad, John Henry, Melody, Sally, and George. I think you'll like meeting them, too. 

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