A Dictionary of Short Stories

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In which I try to improve my writing skills, while still getting out all of the stories that I think have a good plot.  
The plan is to flip to a page in a dictionary and pick out the first word that seems interesting to me.  Then I have to write at least a chapter out of it.  I might just think of phrases and write a story out of them too.   
The problem is that I'm just too lazy to write more than a few chapters on them, but who knows? Maybe I'll find one that I fall in love with.  
Oh well, the world is fickle, and so am I.All Rights Reserved

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