tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24980209572641894612012-02-16T19:37:14.187-05:00Mike Hammer - Writer, Marketing and Communications SpecialistHammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815982295513743109noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498020957264189461.post-298233128023030732011-12-09T20:18:00.002-05:002011-12-09T20:24:04.746-05:00

This is a 1,000 word story Genre: Comedy Location: Flower Shop Object: Fish Killing GoldfishMr. Brownfield could feel Harold looking at him. Brownfield closed his eyes, took a deep breath and potted the plant how he wanted to do it anyway. The Greenhouse was slow and Brownfield was trying out new things to pass the time. Harold the goldfish just did what he always did, swim in his bowl and shake

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This is a 1,000 word story Genre: Fantasy Location: A public library Object: A remote control A Tooth Fairytale I pick up the remote and turn on the sports channel, but golf is on so I turn to one of the news channels and a show is starting. I set the remote down as the title “The Sexist Tooth Fairy Union?” flashes across the screen. The documentary looks low budget, flood lights are

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Check out a 1-page play i wrote - Heartbreak Makes The World Go Round

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Don't forget to check out my music blog Rotting Rhythms

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The McLaughlin/Lowry Fund Concert and Fund Raiser raised about $2,500 for the couple. Thanks to everyone who came out.

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November 26th Fundraiser Planned for Couple Injured in Accident in South AmericaCleveland, Ohio – A local man and his wife were seriously injured, with burns over much of their bodies, as a result of an accident in Rio De Janeiro this summer and friends have organized an event to benefit the couple on Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. at Anatomy NightClub and Ultralounge in downtown Cleveland. Taking advantage

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It’s All JunkA collector finds more than he bargains for while digging around a local junkyard.Jerry was definitely staring at a 1931 King Kong 1 player flattop wooden pinball machine. It was beat to hell on the outside, but the artwork was still intact. The marble top and the sturdy glass on top of the table looked good too, but the Walnut wooden legs were knicked and scratched and chipped and

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“That is the stupidest piece of intelligence I’ve ever heard,” said Col. Donovan.“That doesn’t mean it’s not true,” Grombach replied.Donovan handed a pile of manila folders back to Grombach and said “Get rid of that shit. I don’t have room in my budget for fairytales.”Jean Grombach left Col. Donovan’s office at the CIA knowing the Pond was going to be shut down soon. He grumbled to himself in

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From the Bottom is bad attitude - drunken, spitting, gorgeous punk rock. There are 12 tracks on the release and only one is more than three minutes long; that should tell you what kind of chainsaw guitars, crashing drums, dirty bass playing, and angry shouting you’re about to hear.The first track, “I Am You,” gets the CD off to a roaring start with some catchy guitar chords and vocalist/

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Put in the CD This Storm and out comes a big fresh breath of air, the strong, unique voice of teenager Sonya Kitchell. She is a singer/songwriter in the vein of Ani Difranco, Tracy Chapman, and PJ Harvey who plays guitar and croons like we all tried to do in our basement in high school, but the difference is she’s actually tremendously talented.This is Kitchell’s second album. She got a lot of

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Singer/songwriter Damien Jurado has released about a dozen records in his career; all of them powerful, intimate, and intelligent efforts. He plays guitar and tells cryptic and touching stories. Most of his songs inhabit a sparse, quiet area - similar to the songs of Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, and occasionally Neil Young or more recently Peter Bjorn and John. A few of his CDs have shown that he

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One Day As A Lion is a duo, made up of former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha and former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. Zack sings/raps and plays keyboards and Jon drums and they produce a fuzzy rock sound with Zack’s traditional bare-knuckled poetry. It is a perfect setup for the street poet, Zack, to spit his open mic poetry jam overtop a dirty little beat that won’t let

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Cult R&B hero Andre “Mr. Rhythm” Williams – the nickname apparently came from Redd Foxx so it’s cool by me - has been around the R&B, soul, blues, and a touch of the punk, scenes for a long time. Some call him the ‘father of rap’ for his ‘talk-singing’ approach to vocals. He worked for Motown Records and Chess Records; produced records for/with and wrote songs for Stevie Wonder and Ike Turner;

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The latest offering from Alejandro Escovedo is a powerful musical diary entry. It is a quirky and catchy and completely pleasant album that is nicely polished – produced by old Escovedo friend Tony Visconti - and unique.This is Escovedo’s 10th solo album and he continues to write charming, sharp, witty, touching songs each and every time. He is a master songwriter and touches souls in a way that

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Envy is a beast. A five-piece dynamic, hardcore band from Japan that deals screaming guitars, pummeling drums, and guttural screams straight to your chest. The band has been around for a while and continues to grow into an epic, rib cage vibrating, jolt of momentum.In 2006 Envy released their most accomplished, surprising, beautiful, and intense album, Insomniac Doze on Temporary Residence.

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hey Make Beer Commercials Like This is a remastered and enhanced version – with one song added - of a 2004 EP from this Seattle-based happy rock band, released here on Suicide Squeeze Records.Featuring members of Botch and Sharks Keep Moving, among others, Minus The Bear is a fantastically catchy, indie-pop quintet that has always had the ability to get a listener’s attention with dance rhythms

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“Come on come one and Shake what you got. Well easy does it, cause it looks like you got quite a lot.” - "Shake" by P.W. Long on God Bless The Drunkard’s Dog.P.W. Long has been around the indie rock scene for years. In the early 90s he was lead man in the band Mule and after that he had a trio called P.W. Long’s Reelfoot that included the drummer from Jesus Lizard. However, for the past four or

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old poem published at Lit Up Magazinecheck it outhttp://litupmagazine.wordpress.com/new/

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Creative Writing Championships 2009Flash FictionChallenge #3 assignmentGENRE - FantasyLOCATION - A playgroundOBJECT - Binoculars Angel CloudThere was an older girl and two younger boys. They were really the same age, just the girl taller than the identical boys. They were beautiful children, gorgeous blond hair with dazzling smiles, and the gold tinted skin of an angel. The girl, Sarah, was

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Creative Writing Championships 2009Flash FictionChallenge #2 assignmentGENRE - Political SatireLOCATION - A perfume shopOBJECT - A hamburgerAn officer brought in the witness, sat him down at the booth and put a great American hamburger with the works in front of him. All the officers had hamburgers and a sergeant was handing out bibs. Detective Frinkle sat down across the table from the witness

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Creative Writing Championships 2009Flash FictionChallenge #1 assignmentGENRE - HorrorLOCATION - The trunk of a carOBJECT - A candle“It’s bad karma that put us in here. Bad karma you got for killing that hooker.”“You told me to kill that hooker. Told me to kill a hooker first then move up to killing real people,” SteamTrain said.SteamTrain could feel his right ear looking at him, smirking; that

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I'm a writer and marketing and communications specialist who has lived in Pittsburgh, Greensboro, NC, New Orleans, Cleveland and Toledo, OH. I've had poetry and and short stories published, I play guitar, and some other instruments, badly, I have a cell phone but I don't really like it, I am a big music fan and get lots of CDs and interview lots of bands of all genres.- Check out http://

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