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Hello world!
As my first post, this blank page tempts me to try something incredible, eye-popping, absolutely arresting! The importance of the written word, as well as the spoken word, is almost too great for words. But, I think I’ll resist. It’s much simpler just to say, hello. So, Hello World! It’s nice to meet you. I…
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The Clockwork Girl: CHAPTER 2
Pip groaned. She felt numb all over. Do I still have arms and legs? Or a body? Or a head? Maybe I’m dead? Although she always thought being dead would feel more floaty and ghostlike, or kind of like being a cloud. As feeling came back she just felt like lead all over, instead. I…
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Authors Hit the Art Fair Instead of the Book Fair
On August 21, 2021, I was able to interview a small group of local Michigan authors who participated in signings and selling their books at the Arts & Drafts art fair, held at Ross Park, in Norton Shores. I met author Jean Davis, from Holland, who shared a book signing tent with Lon Hieftje of…
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The Clockwork Girl: CHAPTER 1
The hands of your wrist watch turn at different speeds, traveling through time—that is, if you have one of those ancient timepieces from a more practical era. Sometimes those old watches slow down as time passes over them, just as the rest of life eventually slows. They need to be wound up again. When you…
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THE OLD, GREY MAN
Amid the smell of coming rain, the olden, greying man lifts up gnarled hands, to catch the brief refrain, the solemn dripping of the rain, that is sweeping, never creeping o’er his land. His hands are water-stained, wrinkled fingers reaching high pointed up toward the sky, and leaving with disdain, for the power of the…
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When Am I?
Category : authors, fantasy, flash fiction, Original Stories, readers, scifi, Tiny Tales and Poetry, writersWhen I awoke, I was covered in leaves. What had happened to me and the world around? It was fall in a forest, the wind was cold, and there was no one else to be seen. Where am I? I got up and wandered around for a while to try to find…
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Baby Spider’s Rocket
Baby spider wanted to go into space to see the moon and stars, but he didn’t have a rocket to take him there. The Fourth of July parade had come and gone, and now the “rockets” came out. Baby spider was so excited. He climbed onto one of the “rockets”. It was a…
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Teaching an Old Car New Tricks
Cliff Lund, resident of Fruitport, Michigan, has spent the last five years refurbishing and rebuilding his grandfather’s old car. The 1928 Chrysler Plymouth Q was originally used by Cliff’s grandparents, who managed to fit six people inside for a trip from Michigan to their New Mexico homestead. Back in Muskegon, Cliff’s grandfather used…
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Update on FCS Summer Construction Plans
If you’ve gone by the Fruitport schools on Pontaluna Road lately, you’ve probably noticed a lot of construction going on back at the football field and tennis courts. Here’s a brief update on the projects the School District has planned for the summer. In May of last year, voters approved a zero mill increase bond…
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West Michigan K9 Is Coming to Fruitport
Formed in 2013 by Stephen Parent, West Michigan K9 built its first major facility in West Olive, Michigan, in August of 2016. Their need for a new facility arose when their current one was already at full capacity after eight weeks in business. In 2019, after serious conversations about what the company needed, the…
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Come for Breakfast, Stay for Lunch, at the Village Inn!
Connie McKellips and her husband Steve had been looking to buy a restaurant for a few years. When they heard that Suzi’s Village Inn was closing, they thought that would be a great opportunity for them to get started. “Even though it was right in the middle of a pandemic, getting into the restaurant business…
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