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		<title>Literary Magic Short Story and Poetry Contest Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.literarymagic.com/featured-content/literary-magic-short-story-and-poetry-contest-winners/',size:'large'}Contest Results: Literary Magic has met with yet another pair of successful writing contests. Last month, we closed our first ever paid writing contest. Now, the editors have spoken, and offered free critiques for the winning entries. The first place poem and story winners will each receive their promised payments, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd Place Story: &#8220;Landscape and Fall&#8221; By Mark Wagstaff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.literarymagic.com/front/2nd-place-story-landscape-and-fall-by-mark-wagstaff/',size:'large'}Landscape and Fall By Mark Wagstaff About suffering they were never wrong, the Old Masters. Auden, for instance. You said: his command of situation, his juxtaposition of nature and torture, driven by grief for man’s smallness and doubt, counterposes the sun on water with the nagging nip of ice. The innocent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1st Place Story: “Hitchhiker” By Joanne Weck</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.literarymagic.com/front/1st-place-story-hitchhiker-by-joanne-weck/',size:'large'}Hitchhiker By Joanne Weck It was dusk. A light rain was falling as we drove through the hills of Pennsylvania, heading west. As we rounded a curve near a turnpike entrance, a slight figure stepped almost directly into the path of our car. My husband, at the wheel of his battered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3rd Place Story: “Cooking With Endangered Animals” By Lisa Rose</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.literarymagic.com/front/3rd-place-fiction-cooking-with-endangered-animals-by-lisa-rose/',size:'large'}Cooking With Endangered Animals By Lisa Rose I knew it was going to be a bad day when I found one half of a roach in my scrambled eggs. Where’s the other half? I really hoped&#8230;well&#8230; Some people eat bugs. They say it’s fancy and tastes just like chicken. Well, those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Story of Bee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bubbles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.literarymagic.com/front/bubbles/',size:'large'}BUBBLES &#160; A short story of 1,499 words &#160; by Heidi Hirner &#160; BYLINE: Bubbles &#8211; a cheerful blonde secretary &#8211; figures out a way to cheer up her Stock-broker boss who is super-grumpy due to the Economic Recession. &#160; &#160; In spite of the fact that she was seated in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuckoo in the Nest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.literarymagic.com/fiction-short-stories/cuckoo-in-the-nest/',size:'large'}Cuckoo in the Nest By Terry Voyle &#160; &#160; The black painted longships with the Dragons prow, sliced menacingly through the choppy waters of Cardigan Bay, their sails full with the onshore wind. The six longships entered the mouth of the river Towy, the sails were dropped and oars slid noiselessly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Love of My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Serious Addicts Only</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.literarymagic.com/front/serious-addicts-only/',size:'large'}Serious Addicts Only By Timothy A. Boling &#160; &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Nick and I&#8217;m an addict.&#8221; &#160; &#8220;Welcome, Nick!&#8221; the group said in unison. &#160; I took a deep breath and began. &#8220;This&#8217;s my first time attending Narcotics Anonymous, and I&#8217;m not real sure what to say.&#8221; &#160; I looked around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dinner Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.literarymagic.com/front/the-dinner-party/',size:'large'}The Dinner Party By Joan Kaplan &#160; &#160; Tonight’s gathering would be the ninth in a series of twelve Saturday night dinner parties spanning the three-month holiday summer season. Invitations to these dinners, which began promptly at seven-thirty and concluded just as promptly at ten-thirty, were treasured, envied, guarded jealously. Women [...]]]></description>
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