Day: November 12, 2008

  • Thanks To Amazon Shorts

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    Scott William Foley
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    Well, friends, it’s unfortunate that Amazon Shorts is no longer accepting submissions, but I think we all kind of figured that was bound to be the case after such a long hiatus. I just wanted to thank Amazon Shorts and my fellow writers for giving it such a great go.  I read somewhere that Amazon…

  • The Things They Carried – A Book Review

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    Scott William Foley
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    In The Things They Carried, Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien called upon his own wartime experiences, labeled them as fiction, and wrote one of the most emotionally potent books I’ve ever read. It’s irrelevant to me how much of O’Brien’s book “really happened” because O’Brien’s words and stories in The Things They Carried deeply touched me. …