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Response to: Pangram Just Lectured Substack Writers (opens the original)
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A response to this informative article by writer, . → https://unexpire.substack.com/p/pangram-just-lectured-substack-writers/My comment was too long to cross-post, but I want to express all this. Now it’s a post.I agree that the Pangram thing has an unwelcome air of presumptuousness. I’d choose the word “parochial” over “paternal”, but several words work. I can understand Substack feeling a responsibility to
Nora Gaskin — 025 (opens the original)
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Nora Gaskin is from Durham–Chapel Hill. Her writing career draws on her esperiences with her Dad, decades of professional experience, and an interest in the human questions behind crime and mystery. She had a 24-year career in the financial world, and in 2005, she turned her attention to writing fiction and nonfiction. * Nora earned a bachelor’s degree in English, with Honors in Creative Writing, from the University of North Carolina and a master’s degree in English from the University of Washin
Thanks for August (opens the original)
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Flash August Fiction is over. I have so much to do and no more excuses not to. 31 for 31. Three years in a row. Also February for three years. Next I’m doing a serial. 52 Chapters is 52 Weeks. Something about setting these types of goals publicly helps my productivity. The serial will be paid-only. If you want to get those at no cost with a complimentary upgrade, share one of my stories or one of the categories below and show me the link where you shared it. Substack cross-post, re
Hoodwinked (opens the original)
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The 3rd Annual Flash August Fiction Marathon: Finalehttps://herschelsterling.com/#cat-economicsThere weren’t many parts left for the completion of the shed. So much work had to be done to prepare the base, dig the posts, and remove the ground cover where it would stand. The problem the builders were having now is the fact that the kit that was delivered doesn’t look like it was built for the outdoors at all. &#
The Trek — A Soft Landing on a Hard Time (opens the original)
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https://herschelsterling.com/#cat-scifiAstronaut John Officer had been given a punitive assignment. After blowing a whistle on some mandate violations he witnessed on a mission, he was sent to an abandoned post on a diminutive planet in an uninhabited district in Andromeda. His single-seat craft was programmed to land at an equatorial location. Then he was to wait an unspecified amount of time for an automated rover to pick him up and take him to a base where his supplies and duty protocols were
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