Mark Graham
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I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Tom Turkey
Tantalizing torching the thanksgiving turkey. (Note: To all people who deep fry their turkeys on Thanksgiving. To be honest it isn't that bad, but I still like roasted turkey. I was trying to think of 't' words and 'torching' was what I thought of that is kind of like deep fry.) Share your thoughts.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Spector 2
The Spector stopped when he suspected the people were watching him. He thought he was not hurting anybody just walking looking around where he used to live a long time ago. He thought one evening he might ask someone about a certain he was looking for, but he was afraid to in fear they will just run away when he was out and about. He thought tonight I am going to try ask someone about 513 Hazel and what happened there for that is what he was looking for just to relive some memories of his younger days in town.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
Spector
There was this man that they think use to live in the neighborhood, but they were not quite sure. Everyone was leery of this man, and they called him The Spector for he only came out in the late evenings or late at night and just walk up and down the street. The neighbors tried to meet him, but he always just turned and walked away. They wondered what he was always looking for every night. They set up shifts to see if they could find out, but it seems the Spector kind of suspected something from them and stopped.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
Is Everything a Test?
Reading Rick Warren's book 'A Purpose Driven Life' at the end of Chapter five there is a question--What has happened to me really has only been a test? Then when someone who probably does not even realize how they stated some words about me doesn't realize through my actions that I have shown really seems not to matter even though I was taught when certain words were uttered in haste were what that person really meant. I still find it hard to be around the person that said what was said. I do send smiles and heart emojis to them.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
My Purpose, I think...
What is my purpose? I am re-reading Rick Warren's 'The Purpose-Driven Life' for the third time. It hit me in Chapter four my purpose is writing for I worked as a nurse and even a teacher I feel more that I am fulfilling my purpose as a writer. Through writing I am sharing what I have learned and what I am learning. I know when I die even though I feel like I will still be down here on Earth trying to guide others somehow I know God and Jesus is with me in all I am here one Earth.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
All Hallo's Eve
Punishing penalties pumping people Pumpkins. (Note: This tautogram is a very short story of five words. On All Hallow's Eve the Jack-o-Lanterns all gather and think of various penalties that affect people and they turn people into pumpkins.) Happy Halloween!!!!
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Pumpkin Patch
Oh, what lurks in this field of pumpkins so near the day of All Hallows Eve. The sun comes up just as it always does but moves just a bit faster it seems, and the dusk just seems to last a little longer. Suddenly the moon just appears huge and full. One just walks around and seems weary and not knowing why. One remembers then on their walk around the pumpkin patch that there is a special being this time of year. Could it be, could it be. Oh, yes could be The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Only just believe.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The House
That old house just sitting out there on the great plains falling away. I wonder what the previous owners of that house are thinking now, as the house that was built by one family and lived in by many others. I bet they can hear all the voices that have come and gone as the wind blows. The sun always rose on this house even though there was plenty of happiness there was also many sad events that took place in the old house on the great plains then. Memories come and go just as the families came and went.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Springtime
Yes, springtime is a time for weddings, but before you go spring is also a time that nature is to make a comeback with new blooms and green leaves and grass, and yes back to grass cutting and trimming. This is the time for planting colorful flowers and even making plans for oneself maybe not only in a physical sense but in an emotional sense too. We all have hopes and dreams some are large, some are small, and yet again some dreams are just that dreams about hopes that you want to become true but usually do not work.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
New Year
What does a new year mean to you, and before you go, I will be sharing what a new year means to me. New Years is a time to think and reflect and even to plan. I know it is only October now, but my New Year's plan is to hopefully have one of my dream jobs and believe it or not it is writing in a way but in transcription 'translating' handwritten documents into word documents. One more plan is to hopefully teach online for one of my old colleges in Pennsylvania courses in education or literature may be.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
