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Fleeing Callignee
Rebekah Jennings - © Copyright Fleeing Callignee

A family's fight for survival.

  • Short Story
  • English
  • 3251 Words
  • Ages 0 and up
  • 984
  • 7

Black Saturday, 7 February, 2009, the most tragic natural disaster in Australia's history.

After several days with temperatures in the mid forties, many rural Victorian's were praying for the forecasted 'cool change'.

No one could have predicted what the cool change... Read more...

Keywords: Family, Tragedy, Natural Disaster, Loss, Grief, Bushfire.

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Emily's Requiem
Jen Appell Emily's Requiem
  • Short Story
  • English
  • 2270 Words
  • Ages 0 and up
  • 2237
  • 34

After years of self-alienation from her family, Olivia attempts to reconnect with her sister but is too late. Is it too late to retie the bonds with her parents, bonds that were broken?

Keywords: death, family, hope, tragedy

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THE RECIPE
JOE PARENTE THE RECIPE
  • Short Story
  • English
  • 4792 Words
  • Ages 0 and up
  • 2879
  • 61

The tough times of growing up in an Italian community with the help of unconditional Family love.

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Brittany and Simba
Suzi Stone Brittany and Simba
  • Family & Relationships
  • English
  • 1724 Words
  • Ages 0 and up
  • 1176
  • 42

A loving look at how a small toy can mean the world to a child. Also a look at how this child will never grow out of hers

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Business As Usual
Betty Chatterjee Business As Usual
  • Fiction
  • English
  • 3461 Words
  • Ages 0 and up
  • 772
  • 17

Granny is the self-effacing drudge who collects Simon, her only grandson, from kindegarten every Wednesday afternoon. One day she fails to turn up. She has disappeared almost without trace. Her daughter and son-in-law are concerned, flabbergasted and inconvenienced. A year... Read more...

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A Ticket to the Past
Elizabeth Towles A Ticket to the Past
  • Family & Relationships
  • English
  • 2183 Words
  • Ages 0 and up
  • 1909
  • 55

A Ticket to the Past tells of an ordinary family, their daily lives, events, and growing pains...but who's to say what exactly defines...ordinary?

Keywords: Family journal, children, pets, giggles, tears, and love.

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Genesis
Jamie Dams Genesis
  • Poetry
  • English
  • 1604 Words
  • Ages 0 and up
  • 1415
  • 39

The first anthology of an emerging poet

Keywords: Lyrical, philosophical, modern.

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Only Child
Sally Xie Only Child
  • Short Story
  • English
  • 1073 Words
  • Ages 0 and up
  • 1399
  • 21

"What would happen once a louder, shriller, needier baby came along? The very foundations of my stature would be shaken, the household dynamics would shift. No, there was no room for compassion: there could only be one, and I was she."

Keywords: only child, siblings, baby brother

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • Mystery & Crime
  • English
  • 104489 Words
  • Ages 0 and up
  • 73399
  • 707

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