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October 2011 Blog Posts (8)

Re-Post: Pennies, Nickels, And Dimes...Oh My!!!

 

"Buy what you need and not what you want."

"Money don't just grow up out of my pockets. It comes from hard work."

"I don't care how bad…

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Added by NaTrina T. Willis on October 30, 2011 at 8:05pm — No Comments

Short, Simple And To the Point...

unforgiving- (adj.)  1.not disposed to forgive…
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Added by NaTrina T. Willis on October 29, 2011 at 5:34pm — No Comments

Assassination Anxiety. McKenzie Files-2.



New from Penumbra Publishing. McKenzie Files-2 Assassination Anxiety. Available at Amazon.com books. And Barnes and Noble. Print book, $10.99. E-book, $2.99.

 

The three captured and reprogrammed Brelac Reploids have proved their worth to the Protectorate in a fierce…

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Added by Barry K. Nelson on October 28, 2011 at 9:47pm — No Comments

MAJORITY RULES

In real-time we live in a society and culture where those breaking down walls of separation are outnumbered by those that don't know our history enough to break down walls of separation.



What your reply failed to take into account and consideration is that we live in a society where the perception of the majority rule. The few of us that know will not be spared because because in a society where majority rules, when the wagon comes, we all go.



It is because of the dynamic… Continue

Added by Enoch Mubarak on October 26, 2011 at 6:04pm — No Comments

Life Of An Ethnic Writer

Ok, my epiphany for today is the order of life. Life is cause, effect and loop holes. Its the loop holes that build character and the cause and effect that brings us comfort. We are comforted even in the dramatic waves as long as we know when the waves are gonna hit. If we put ourselves in good or a bad situation we are ultimately okay even if we feel like we are drowning. If is the foresight of the hurt or joy that soothes us. We can look over the outcome and know exactly how it… Continue

Added by Cee Brooks on October 10, 2011 at 8:18pm — No Comments

“URBAN FICTION” BRINGS ON THE DRAMA





May

2011- Indianapolis, IN
- For ambition and survival, three

friends decide to take on the oldest profession in the world—prostitution. But

are they ready for the danger that comes along with it? Find out in this fresh,

hip, new book Love is Blind

(978-1-4620-02, Perfect Bound Soft Cover, 172 pp, 5.5x8.5, $13.95).





First time author T.J. Chester takes you on a crazy

journey through the promiscuous lives of three friends as…

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Added by T.J. Chester on October 10, 2011 at 10:58am — No Comments

"Train's A Coming" by Felicia Baker

Choo Choo the train's a coming!!!

Choo Choo the train's a coming!!!

 

We've walked along side the railroad tracks many times

coming from school. A group of kids, laughing and playing

 

Choo Choo the train's a coming

 

I bet yah, I can beat the train by crossing the other side of the track,

No you cannot, yes I can, he continue to insist.

 

Choo Choo the train's a coming, he begin to take off running…

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Added by Felicia Baker on October 9, 2011 at 7:31am — No Comments

In the Mirror

 

Story

Jasmine Falls is an honest, law-abiding physical therapist whose common sense, sound judgment and good home training is hijacked by a dazzling feeling that comes alive inside her heart the second community organizer, Daniel Roberts, limps into The Lent Rehabilitation Center with a severely pulled hamstring. Their attraction to each other is undeniable, but Daniel is married with two young children and Jasmine longs for a husband and children of her…

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Added by Odessa Rose on October 6, 2011 at 1:58pm — No Comments

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