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Sample Prose

Hot Idle

When a mill temporarily stops producing steel, the workers keep the furnaces going because it would take too long to heat them up again when production resumes. During that period, the mill is said to be in "hot idle."

I guess it started when I noticed me and Joanie was wearin' the same shoes. 'Course mine had the tiny little rhinestones goin' across the toes and hers had 'em goin' along the sides, but they was the same shoes. They was the same blue velvet shoes, the same color blue like that blue hooded sweatshirt little Nathan liked to wear when he was littler.

Mi Vida Loca

She thought she understood what she was doing. Now she's confused and begins to think she's been misled.

Did her mentors at the community college, in assuring her that she was the type of student who'd feel comfortable in any academic setting, mislead her? Did her friends, in insisting that regardless of her age and race she was "DU material," that she had "the right stuff," and that the University of Denver would be damned lucky to have her, mislead her?