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One-minute Romance: An Interview
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One-minute Romance features 800- to 1000-word short stories for the young at heart and for those who believe life can be beautiful. Happy endings reign! INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR JON RIPSLINGER. 1 What made you want to become a novelist? As a high school teacher and a wannabe writer, I always felt I could write something worthwhile for teens. I'd been trying to write short stories for girls' magazines like Seventeen. Still sits in my file drawer. How has it remained the same? The main character has tried t...
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One-minute Romance: Why Teens?
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One-minute Romance features 800- to 1000-word short stories for the young at heart and for those who believe life can be beautiful. Happy endings reign! You can make a lot more money writing adult novels," my friends always tell me. "Why don't you give it a shot? Why write for teens? It's not about the money," I tell them. "Besides, I like writing for teens.". My answer is simple and truthful. But it's not the complete truth of why I write for teens, which is a lot more complicated. Carl Mueller and Lori...
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One-minute Romance: The Proposition
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One-minute Romance features 800- to 1000-word short stories for the young at heart and for those who believe life can be beautiful. Happy endings reign! Monday, October 15, 2012. A thirty-year-old widow with twin boys, I never expected a proposition over a cup of coffee at a booth in the Lunch Box Cafe. Seven-thirty in the morning. Just before work. But that's exactly what Jason said to me: "I have a proposition for you, Christy.". I felt my eyes narrow. Jason, I told you—". I understand that.". But two ...
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One-minute Romance: Bio
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One-minute Romance features 800- to 1000-word short stories for the young at heart and for those who believe life can be beautiful. Happy endings reign! I am a retired English teacher, married fifty-five years, the father of six children and grandfather to thirteen grandchildren—twelve of them girls. I have three great grandchildren, two girls and one boy. I am a Korean War veteran, having served aboard the battleship USS New Jersey. After four years in the Navy, I. BB62—The USS New Jersey. MA Degree, Re...
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One-minute Romance: The Best Man
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One-minute Romance features 800- to 1000-word short stories for the young at heart and for those who believe life can be beautiful. Happy endings reign! Tuesday, July 31, 2012. If you need a dependable used car, reasonably priced," Cindy said over the phone, "Sam Brownlee's the best man in town to see.". I know everyone says that.". It's true, Laura. If you think you'll feel funny seeing him again, forget that thought. Sam wasn't to blame, anyway.". Go, girl. You won't be sorry.". Have you seen Rick?
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One-minute Romance: Love Is a Circus
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One-minute Romance features 800- to 1000-word short stories for the young at heart and for those who believe life can be beautiful. Happy endings reign! Thursday, August 15, 2013. Love Is a Circus. Mom, is Cole kind of like a dad," my four-year-old son, Danny, asked as I reached to turn off the light on the night table next to his bed. I'd just finished tucking him in and kissing him goodnight on the forehead. Sweetie, it's late. We had a big day.". Don't you like him, Mom? Alone in my kitchen. I'd inher...
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One-minute Romance: Good Enough
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One-minute Romance features 800- to 1000-word short stories for the young at heart and for those who believe life can be beautiful. Happy endings reign! Saturday, August 1, 2015. I'd like you to meet my parents," Brittany said, sitting across from me at the oak-shaded picnic table. We'd strolled to the park, only a block away from our building, for a picnic lunch on this warm, sunny afternoon. I smiled at her. What a gorgeous, blue-eyed redhead she was. We've been together, what, maybe two months now?
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One-minute Romance: Homecoming
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One-minute Romance features 800- to 1000-word short stories for the young at heart and for those who believe life can be beautiful. Happy endings reign! Wednesday, August 15, 2012. When my plane landed at the airport late in the afternoon, the stewardess came to fetch the bright-eyed little boy sitting next to me and take him to his parents, no doubt. He was six. We'd been pals from St. Louis to Cedar Rapids, an hour. I think you're a nice lady.". And you're quite a young man.". He glanced quickly at my ...
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One-minute Romance: Neighbors
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One-minute Romance features 800- to 1000-word short stories for the young at heart and for those who believe life can be beautiful. Happy endings reign! Sunday, May 3, 2015. My new neighbor—a beautiful, slender redhead—wobbled near the top step of a six-foot ladder on a sunny spring afternoon, tossing last fall's soggy leaves out of the gutter along the front of her house. I parked in my drive and hopped out of my car. The ladder—an old, rickety wooden one—appeared ready to buckle. The next week, a buddy...
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One-minute Romance: New Memories
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One-minute Romance features 800- to 1000-word short stories for the young at heart and for those who believe life can be beautiful. Happy endings reign! Thursday, July 9, 2015. The night I decided to talk to her she sat in front of glowing campfire. We'd been camping neighbors at Sugar Point Campgrounds for two nights, she in her tent along with her golden retriever, me in my truck camper, alone. What did she do all day? Why was she alone except for her dog? Hi," I said, as she looked up from her chair&#...
