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The turn of the eighteenth century, Britain at war with Napoleon Bonaparte, Marguerite Rouvierre is concerned by her husband’s failure to return from a rendezvous with a stranger in a notorious riverside area of London. Impoverished, destitute and naive, she embarks on a quest to discover his whereabouts, and soon discovers that righteousness and virtue are qualities that mean nothing to rough, lawless men. Shocked by women selling themselves in taverns and on the streets, Marguerite is given an insight into what her future might be if she fails to find her husband. Made aware by hunger and thirst that a woman without a man has few opportunities to support herself Marguerite spends a cold, frightening night next to the river, examining her conscience and listening to the sound of thieves going about their nefarious business.

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This is back story about Josie Garrett in the novel, Broken. I'm sorry if it doesn't make sense or feel complete as a short story. It's meant to shed light on Josie Garrett, a detective-tuned social worker who works in a prison/hospital setting for inmates with psychiatric disorders. For those who have read Broken, where do you think it would best be added (if at all!) In the beginning when Josie is first introduced? later, when she and Grace become friends? or after the kidnapping when Josie comes to Grace's door after having been away for a week?

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My story is a novelistic yet factual account of my personal journey of moving to India with my husband. I am in search of adventure and motherhood, but as I struggle to find my feet in a foreign land, I also traverse a rocky path to parenthood. It is a fortuneteller’s prophecy of a “dark-skinned child” which proves my hardest test; my emotional battle with infertility in a developing country makes me contemplate my need for birth children. India’s poverty (her street children, orphans, and child labourers) influences me to question my priorities, and I follow a path of personal growth that is lined with uncertainty and fear. When my husband and I decide to adopt a child we face another set of hurdles. Our touching journey leads us to Cambodia where the clairvoyant’s prediction comes true.

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“Physician, heal thyself,” are words Doctor MacKenzie “Mac” Reardon never thought he would hear although he has seen far too much sickness and death in his thirty years on Earth. The small isolated town of Possum Holler, West Virginia, has suffered numerous tragedies without a doctor and with a hospital that is nearly one hundred miles away. The people are poor and backward. At last, one of their own has managed to become a doctor. Doctor Reardon returns to his hometown to find his own heartache might be something no medicine can heal as he struggles with a narrow-minded community, ignorance, a rocky marriage to a city girl, Felicia Chambry Reardon, and an overwhelming attraction to the new school teacher/principal, Sunny Bankston, at the newly established school. Having met Sunny while in his ER rotation at Cook County Hospital when he was an intern and her having been shot in a school-violence incident, Mac knows the spirit of the woman, a spirit that is more akin to his than the spirit of the woman he married. Mac struggles against overwhelming odds to bring his community into the twenty-first century even as Sunny Bankston battles her own demons, including fighting an attraction to Dr. MacKenzie Reardon. This is a romance that is a bit different. Yes, there is romance of the man/woman kind, but there is also love of community and friendship, driving forces of the story. I want the reader to see growth and change in these characters. I do not want the reader to hate any of them. The main antagonist is a situation of poverty and ignorance, not an individual. All comments welcome.

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CHANGED TITLE. AGAIN. worked it a bit. This is one I want to perfect so may reword more. Any suggestion always appreciated. This is a growing need and the saddest part is many vets or homeless people go unheeded and nobody believes they are for real. Some aren't ... they are people simply taking advantage of the public.. BUT I am not taking that chance! There are ways to tell. Paying close attention or being a fool now and then. To give when one has so little is the truest of giving

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Any feedback is welcome, love or hate the work...

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After her grandmother, Jenessa, flees her home in terror, Anna takes over as the caretaker of the property. Only 18 years old, and having just left an abusive home, Anna soon finds that the troubles she'd experienced up to now were nothing compared to what waits for her at The House on Miller Street. Will Anna survive her encounters with the malevolent being? Or will she, too, flee in abject terror?

NOTE: As of 2/22/2012, chapters 1 through 16 have been revised, and Chapter 10 and 11 were combined to give them a better flow. With this in mind, comments posted prior to this date for Chapters 11 through 16 pertain to the prior chapter.

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Looking for feedback on storyline composition / plot and how this story could be stronger.

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Blame it on Memphis. Revised this a bit as felt needed one more verse. Hope this adds that necessary ingredient. Thanks for the helpful feedback regarding this. The words are flowing and now I can't shut them off! I try to never post more than one work in a day! Now I could wait! But I won't. Think this needs a forth verse but came up empty. When the flow stops it stops

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This novel attempts to simplify and de-mystify investing for working people. It is probably more accurately described as 'creative non-fiction'. It's primary objective is to challenge the reader to take responsibility for their own retirement, and begin a systematic plan of saving and investing.// The main character, John Durant, is a CFO for a local engineering company. He make's it his personal mission to spread the word that anyone with determination, reasonable intellengence, a few key principals and rules can be a successful investor.//Does he succeed? With some yes and others no.

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