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5 Responses to “2009 August Free Edit HOOKS”

  1. Jeanette Bennett said on August 24th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    The link to “My guitar case bounced” doesn’t work.

  2. gotheca said on August 24th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    How very bizarre. Thanks for letting me know. I’ll fix it!

    Victoria

  3. gotheca said on August 24th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    Got it! Thanks, Jeannette. And I’m sorry, Marie! I hope everyone who wants to read it can get to it now.

    Victoria

  4. Sean O'Mordha said on August 28th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    The uninhabited island lay thirty meters to port, and somewhere beyond the white sand beach an ambush. In the star-filled blackness of night neither were visible to the man standing alone on the bow of the ship, but the sound of the waves rolling across the wide, shallow reef placed the island, and the Captain had warned of Fuentes’ presence. Unfortunately, both were more apparent than the family’s destiny the old woman on Haiti had seen when she threw the bones.

  5. gotheca said on September 1st, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    You can see Sean O’Mordha’s novel hook in the final week’s free edits.

    Victoria

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