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Haruah 2010 Guidelines Update
R. L. Copple

Announcing MindFlights Poetry Contest 2008
DEP Staff


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Haruah Editor's Round Table Audio Discussion
Haruah Editorial Team

Passing the Torch - A note to the readers
Rachel A. Marks


Poetry Corner

The Angel of My Desire
R. L. Copple

Finding you Friend
Christie Halle Devlin

The Glance
Robin Offerdahl

Echoes
Tyrean Martinson

THE GOLDEN TREASURY
Ashutosh Ghildiyal


Fiction Addiction

Hide and Seek
Rachel Stewart (Student)

Dandelion Wishes
Helen Silverstein

The Cisco Kid
Brian Merklin

Enough
Mary R. Hawkins (Student)

A Twist in the Old Lasso
Jo Ann Snapp


Romance

A Twist in the Old Lasso
Jo Ann Snapp

Wildflower Wine
A.G. Elrod


Splash of Flash

Hummingbird
Suzanne W. Vincent

My Name
Skye Kinkade

Serviettes
Mary Ann Noe

Passengers
J.C. Towler

Hurricane Elliot
Joanne Sher


Historically Speaking

Bishop Martin's Cloak
Andrew M. Seddon

The Mountain
Joshua Gage


 

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The Angel of My Desire by R. L. Copple
Poetry - Contemporary

Angel: One who touches our lives, even briefly, in special ways. - Discuss in Forums


Finding you Friend by Christie Halle Devlin
Poetry - Literary

Dear God,
I'm lonely.
- Discuss in Forums


Hide and Seek by Rachel Stewart (Student)
Fiction - Literary

You aren't found unless you want to be found. Kathy plans to hide all day and win the game... if you can call it "winning." - Discuss in Forums


Haruah 2010 Guidelines Update by R. L. Copple
News - Contemporary

Haruah sets new focus for 2010. - Discuss in Forums


The Glance by Robin Offerdahl
Poetry - Literary

- Discuss in Forums


Hummingbird by Suzanne W. Vincent
Flash Fiction - Contemporary

In the hour before nightfall, Aleida feeds her hummingbirds and remembers days long past. - Discuss in Forums


Dandelion Wishes by Helen Silverstein
Fiction - Literary

Dandelion Wishes offers a glimpse into the tender joy of a young girl. - Discuss in Forums


Echoes by Tyrean Martinson
Poetry - Literary

- Discuss in Forums


The Cisco Kid by Brian Merklin
Fiction - Contemporary

Hope can arrive in your last moments alive, but will it save you?

Harry has a choice to make.  On one side of him lies an end to everything he knows; on the other, uncertainty, possible failure, but life nonetheless.

Hope can give you a reason. Or it can be the last thing you ever see. - Discuss in Forums


THE GOLDEN TREASURY by Ashutosh Ghildiyal
Poetry - Literary

- Discuss in Forums


Enough by Mary R. Hawkins (Student)
Fiction - Literary

"I had escaped the clutches of one god, only to fall captive to another..." - Discuss in Forums


On the Road to Damascus, Georgia by L. Ward Abel
Poetry - Literary

This life and the search for flashes - Discuss in Forums


A Twist in the Old Lasso by Jo Ann Snapp
Fiction - Romance

Nettie Yoder stood in the dusty street of Laws, California waiting for Jake Spiral. The tender letters he wrote to her in Boston touched her heart but still, Laws was a distance to come for marriage to a man she'd never seen. No matter the outcome though, she could not go back to Boston. - Discuss in Forums


Since Self I Gave Away by C. Maggie Woychik
Poetry - Literary

Virtue turns to vice in our own hands. - Discuss in Forums


Extraction: Pakistan by D.I. Telbat
Fiction - Contemporary

Two covert soldiers come into a Pakistani camp to rescue kidnapped missionaries, to find only one alive. Does he even want to leave his captors? Why would he want to stay? Find out what this prisoner considers more important than his life. - Discuss in Forums


Birthday Missionary by Jonathan Facelli
True-to-life Story - Literary

When Jonathan arrived in Kenya he expected to meet his sister for a month of escapist traveling around East Africa. What he didn't know was that his sister would not be there to meet him, and in just a few day he would become an accidental missionary. - Discuss in Forums


The Third Time Today by Sheri Flowers Anderson
Poetry

Poem for son - Discuss in Forums


Gemma's Box by Amber Harvey
Fiction - Contemporary

Gemma Knowells is initially disappointed in her inheritance from Grandma: a box of letters.  She soon discovers that lessons from the past may be the key to success in her future. - Discuss in Forums


Meditation 13 by Anne Brooke
Poetry - Contemporary

- Discuss in Forums


Bishop Martin's Cloak by Andrew M. Seddon
Fiction - Historical

When Roman soldier Martin divided his cloak with a beggar on a cold winter's day, he could not have foreseen how that scrap of cloth would change the lives of those who followed him... - Discuss in Forums


Worm by Wm Kamffer
Poetry - Literary

Creation is filled with allegory, and this amazing worm is no different. - Discuss in Forums


For What It's Worth by Donna Watkins
Fiction - Literary

There wasn't anything here, nothing of value anyway. Some rusting tools, rotting wood, forgotten memories. Wait, though, something was coming back to me, something my grandmother used to say: "Just because you can't see the value in something, doesn't mean it doesn't have value at all." - Discuss in Forums


THOSE HILLS by Ashutosh Ghildiyal
Poetry

- Discuss in Forums


Peace, Love, Perspective by Elrena Evans
Fiction - Literary

A change in the day's plans causes a mother and her young daughter to shift perspective...perhaps for the better. - Discuss in Forums


Meditation 11 by Anne Brooke
Poetry - Contemporary

- Discuss in Forums


The Weather Channel by Amy Corbin
Fiction - Literary

This is a love story based on my grandparents. - Discuss in Forums


Dust of the Rabbi by Abigail Knutson
Poetry - Literary

- Discuss in Forums


The Frequency of Swinging by Brad D. Green
Fiction - Literary

I catch glimpses of their great machines through the leaves:  yellow flashes of great claws, blistered with mud. - Discuss in Forums


SASE by Olivia Adams
Poetry - Contemporary

- Discuss in Forums


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Side Notes...

The Writing World:
Slush Slop

by R. L. Copple

Here are the three most common reasons I recommend a submission to be declined.


As a slush editor for several years now, I see stories come through that get rejected for one reason or another. I thought it might be helpful to list the three main reasons I've recommended rejecting stories in the past. There are other reasons, but by far most of the stories I've suggested to decline are due to violating one of these three needs.

The main reason I would recommend a decline is lack of conflict and tension. Exempt from this requirement is a fully literary story where the flow of words and images they create are more like poetic prose than your standard story. But if your story isn't poetic, and doesn't paint striking images, then it will be evaluated on standard story requirements.

And the whole story should move this tension forward. A frequent problem I see is stories that start too early, conveying mundane details of a person's life before we get to where the story really starts to move forward. Yes, those elements can convey characterization. But good characterization happens where the story builds, not in talking about actions and events that don't matter to the story.

There are two kinds of tension that are built for most stories. One is plot tension. A conflict ensues between two people who want the same thing, or want opposite results. One is trying to stop the other. The key here is that there is uncertainty in the outcome. The character(s) struggle, and the more they overcome against all odds, the more powerful the tension will be. Unfortunately, many stories I read go nowhere. There is no real build to a climax, no real struggle to achieve a victory, whatever that might be.

The second type of tension is character tension. This and plot tension are often combined into one story and play off each other. But you can have a story that is mostly, if not all, character tension. This is conflict between two people on a mental and/or emotional level, or even a person battling a desire o... continued.

Copyright 2010, R. L. Copple. All rights reserved.

Harûah: Breath of Heaven - A Magazine of Inspiration is an inspirational web and print magazine, featuring fiction of all kinds, poetry, and non-fiction. Harûah is Hebrew for "The Spirit" and within our pages we hope to draw you closer to the Creator who breathed life into us all.

Harûah seeks to publish works that show the wonder and awesome power of a living, loving God who is active and intimately involved in humanity. It is ecumenical in nature, and though grounded in Christian principles and traditional values, it does not set out to promote the practices or beliefs of any particular denomination. Within the pages of Harûah, readers will find, besides the occasional work with specific Christian content, many works that honor the values and tenets of a wide variety of faith traditions.

Fiction, poetry, and stories of life are the heart of Harûah, but other types of features are also included. But in all cases, readers can be sure that everything included will be wholesome and inoffensive. Readers of all ages can enjoy the literary works of Harûah.


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