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House of Culture
Leave a commentMay 14, 2018 by Melanie L.
My maternal grandmother, Ita Chernowetsky, was born in “a beautiful country,” Uman, Ukraine in 1914. Her parents ran a laundry …
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May 14, 2018 by Melanie L.
My maternal grandmother, Ita Chernowetsky, was born in “a beautiful country,” Uman, Ukraine in 1914. Her parents ran a laundry …
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Category: Non-Fiction | Tags: anti-Semitism, emigration, family, history, Ukraine, Uman
November 17, 2014 by Melanie L.
Rainbows over arid land gave credence to His promise never again to flood the peaks. Mankind proliferated. But, infected floodwater …
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Category: Micro Stories, Weekly Challenge Entries | Tags: creedence clearwater revival, fear, gargleblaster, history, Israel, micro non-fiction, micro-story, Noah's ark, peace, poetry, terrorism, war, Weekly writing challenge, who'll stop the rain, yeah write
July 22, 2014 by Melanie L.
“Wait. R.E.M. and waking stages combine? Sleep paralysis invades while supine causing visions of strangulating hags or threatening assailants while …
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Category: Fiction, Micro Stories, Weekly Challenge Entries | Tags: Dan Rather, fiction, gargleblaster, history, insomnia, Kenneth?, news, news anchor, nightmare, poem, R.E.M., sleep, sleep paralysis, What's the Frequency, yeah write
Wanna-be writer, amateur oil painter, practicing law and motherhood with varied success.