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		<title>New Moons (Parts 5-7)  200 word series story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cringed, anticipating the cruel bite of the lash that never landed.  I was free!  My vision blurred; wiping tears and sleep from my eyes, I surveyed my surroundings.  Steel-grey light covered the evergreens around us.  After three months of captivity, using my lore to hide from the depravity around me, this morning felt different, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=necroben.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4082275&amp;post=307&amp;subd=necroben&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Moons (Parts 1-4, 200 words each)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wooden planks of the wagon bed creaked as the horse pulled us along.  My hands, chained to the floor between my feet, were rubbed raw; clear liquid oozed from under my shackles.  I raised my head, careful not to meet the eyes of the other children; even among slaves, there was a pecking order. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=necroben.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4082275&amp;post=303&amp;subd=necroben&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart shackles, Mind chains</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lynn stepped back, her bloody kai held in a loose grip.  She looked on, unmoved by the figure whimpering on the wet pavement before her; she would subjugate herself no longer.  The pall over her soul lifted a little more.  Every time she stepped away from her tortured past, moved to pull herself from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=necroben.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4082275&amp;post=300&amp;subd=necroben&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Journal: Day Three  Bruises and scrapes cover my body.  My arm, thank God, is not broken.  I still do not know were I am, or even where the ship was headed.  Nevertheless, I have my life, and that is no small thing.  Chills rack my body intermittently; not an auspicious start to my journal, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=necroben.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4082275&amp;post=296&amp;subd=necroben&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So you want to write a story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you want to write a story.  You’ve been reading for years and now you’re ready to take the next step.  You have something to say and want to ‘give it a go’, and why not?  First, learn the language, take classes or read how-to books.  Second, learn how to write, see number one.  Third, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=necroben.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4082275&amp;post=290&amp;subd=necroben&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What she doesn’t say</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo I looked down into her dark eyes. It still amazed me how much she could communicate with them, and not say a word. Opened a little more than usual and she pleaded. The delicate arch of an eyebrow asked why not. A slow blink; I love you. I nodded my head and her answering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=necroben.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4082275&amp;post=288&amp;subd=necroben&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To care too much</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I held my breath as Jovi stared into his open palm.  My stomach dipped and rolled in time with his.  Our symbiotic nexus allowed me to take most of his emotions as my own.  He would only be dimly aware of the distraction.  I stood apart from the others around him.  If the Decca learned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=necroben.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4082275&amp;post=283&amp;subd=necroben&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Only fool&#8217;s rush in</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It sat on the shelf, calling to him.  Every time he turned his head, he would catch a flicker out the corner of his eye.  Its shadow haunted his soul, obscuring the light of all before him.  Food lost all taste.  Life leeched of color. No more could he stand it, the dread of trying.  Hands [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=necroben.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4082275&amp;post=280&amp;subd=necroben&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My interview @Stories without words</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first interview! This is so cool! I&#8217;m probably way too excited about something like this, but I don&#8217;t care. Squeeee! http://storieswithoutwords.wordpress.com/the-interviews/ben/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=necroben.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4082275&amp;post=277&amp;subd=necroben&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom (part two)</title>
		<link>http://necroben.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/freedom-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journal: Day Twenty-One Forced at spear-point to climb aboard the small boat—with the same three young women who guarded my hut—we traveled to the next island.  Standing on the shore I looked back across the intervening ocean.  The funeral pyre threw incandescent fireflies into the night sky.  Ghostly figures ran through the village lighting the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=necroben.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4082275&amp;post=275&amp;subd=necroben&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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