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Storytellers.

In Uncategorized on 04/20/2011 at 23:09

Found this wikipedia pages of the world’s best-selling fiction authors (all time). Kind of fun to look at. Most wrote in English though its an international list (we’ve won the language lottery because we can all write in English). Most of these folks wrote at least a few dozen books, with many well over a hundred. Lots of great story-tellers on this list. If you like short stories I recommend picking up any Louis L’Amour collections if you never have. They can be found everywhere. Most of the collections are a mix of genres: South Seas adventure, westerns, crime stories, sort of like uncovering a bunch of new Humphrey Bogart movies: really satisfying reads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_fiction_authors

Free Story of the Week S01E02 The Crossing

In free read, writing on 04/08/2011 at 22:51

0001U0.jpeg This week’s free story is from 2003. My first publication …
THE CROSSING

Only Vincente braved the outside. Mama stayed within, washed linen, swept floors, and clung to the life she knew before the fear. She seemed    least anxious in the kitchen. The colonel haunted the walled garden. The girl? well, strange. little Laura kept to the corners.

They could take a lesson from the rats. Nothing bothered the rats; this much, Vincente had learned.

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