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		<title>Seattle Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations, The Word Millers! Your story, &#8220;Appearance,&#8221; won Sledgehammer Seattle. The top two teams from Seattle and the top three teams from Portland will now compete for the grand prize. That winner will be announced the week of October 5. Stay tuned! Posted in 2009 Submissions<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sledgehammercontest.com&amp;blog=7675305&amp;post=414&amp;subd=sledgehammerpdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irreconciliation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 story submission by &#8220;Misanthrope&#8221; (Ryan Kelly, Natalie Walker, Sarah Fonnesbeck, Arthur Ross) The crowd of mingling people coalesced into a line and looked attentive down the street at the approach of the bus.  Foremost among them was a man in a worn but pleasant brown jacket, holding a large book in one hand and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sledgehammercontest.com&amp;blog=7675305&amp;post=338&amp;subd=sledgehammerpdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Appearance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 Story Submission by &#8220;The Word Millers&#8221; (Jason and Karina Miller) Friday Evening &#8220;How much longer?&#8221; Samantha asks impatiently as we wait at the crosswalk for permission to cross the busy intersection. Her hand grips mine tightly in anticipation, her eyes fixed on the dance studio across the street where her friends wait  to start [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sledgehammercontest.com&amp;blog=7675305&amp;post=335&amp;subd=sledgehammerpdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Ecological Reasons Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 story submission by &#8220;Insolence&#8221; (Jason Rizos) Jackie said that her mother would “simply adore” a bike tour of downtown Portland. I wondered why Jackie picked these words, and why she articulated them with a Southern drawl, but upon meeting Sheila, it made perfect sense. She flew in from Austin along with Jackie’s geeky young [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sledgehammercontest.com&amp;blog=7675305&amp;post=311&amp;subd=sledgehammerpdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mysterious Grilled Cheese Left in the Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 story submission by Amber Hatt Carol Johnson eyes the clock and closes the link to KGW.com. Today&#8217;s high is a predicted 82 degrees; perfect sleeping weather. At two minutes past seven, Sue enters the vast maze of cubicles. Carol squints her eyes against Sue&#8217;s perky morning energy. &#8220;Morning Carol,&#8221; Sue sing-songs setting her BIG [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sledgehammercontest.com&amp;blog=7675305&amp;post=307&amp;subd=sledgehammerpdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catch the Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 story submission by Bob Ferguson My windows were down on a balmy August night. I’m ecstatic that my critique group finally liked something that I submitted. I had just left St. John’s Pub and was headed east on Lombard going home to the Couve to tell my wife of four decades, Karla about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sledgehammercontest.com&amp;blog=7675305&amp;post=304&amp;subd=sledgehammerpdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Air</title>
		<link>http://sledgehammercontest.com/2009/08/31/dead-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 story submission by &#8220;Ignatius and Myrna&#8221; (Josh Gross and Carly Nairn) No matter how many electricians were called in to address the problem, the lights had flickered in the news writer’s pit at CWBC for more than twenty years. People joked that it was the ghost of the former nightly news anchor Reed Bancroft, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sledgehammercontest.com&amp;blog=7675305&amp;post=302&amp;subd=sledgehammerpdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kill Your Muse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 story submission by &#8220;Labruda&#8221; (Jon Labrousse) Tom couldn&#8217;t have chosen a less ideal day for the funeral.  It was too hot out, for one, and too late in the day.  To make matters worse, there was a construction crew, a group of short men in orange hard hats, tearing down a building at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sledgehammercontest.com&amp;blog=7675305&amp;post=300&amp;subd=sledgehammerpdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Temptation of Sangre de Cristos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 story submission by Kim Crow 1. The monastic retreat in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains was meant to un-complicate my life. I booked a room at the hermitage of the Benedictine Brothers of The Five Wounds at the suggestion of my shrink. “Bernard,” he said, “Clear your mind. Get out of here for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sledgehammercontest.com&amp;blog=7675305&amp;post=296&amp;subd=sledgehammerpdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Striped House</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 story submission by &#8220;The Flowers&#8221; (Irene Chau, Maren Chau, Tiffany Lin, Jennifer Zhang) Like any other day, Carol Stripe rolled out of bed in the morning to freshen up for her job at the news station. Just as the clock struck five, she headed out the door wearing a crisp new suit, bursting at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sledgehammercontest.com&amp;blog=7675305&amp;post=292&amp;subd=sledgehammerpdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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