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Spot Writers: Ghost

Today’s story comes to us from Val Muller, author of the Corgi Capers mystery series (check it out at www.CorgiCapers.com). The prompt was to write a story using the following words: shadow, mountain, shell, sunlight, hammock, bottle, chain, wheel. Ghost By Val Muller The day had come, and those without …

Book Review: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I’m on a “kick” of reading or re-reading dystopian-style novels, including 1984, We, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, and Brave New World. It’s interesting that they all have so many themes in common. Certainly, the later dystopias have been influenced by the earlier ones, but I’m fascinated by the common …