Short story: Hot Diggity
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by Cathy Bueker In the Outer Banks, on a muddy cliff, where grasses grow tall and sharp and thin to be whipped by the wind, there is a blue bungalow rental house. Three friends in it are sitting around and drinking. Out the kitchen window, they watch the sun set on their last night of four [...] |
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An Open Letter to President Obama
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Homeless Job Seekers Battling the Odds
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Young Designers Weigh in on Playground
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Running Toward a New Life
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Proposed Shelter Closing Could Strain Overstretched Resources
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Gray Hopes for Homeless Vote
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Black Cat Benefit Concert Saturday, August 21st!
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Vendor Profile: Franklin Sterling, an ascendant poet
By Mandy Toomey, volunteer
A meager snack and a paltry one at
That, time. Limp awe, this zone
Is grathered as though alone.
-Franklin Sterling
Franklin Sterling began selling Street Sense two years ago, after some other vendors encouraged him to look into the program. Sterling has had three sets of poems published and now is revising [...]
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