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Labor Day Has Roots in New York and Chicago’s Labor Reform Movement

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Written by: ROMIntl
Category: Prose
Created: September 8, 2010, 6:07 am
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Many Americans enjoy a day off of work and leisure activates to celebrate Labor Day but few know its roots.  Observed on the first Monday in September Labor Day became a federal holiday when President Grover Cleveland signed legislation June 28 1894 to appease the organized labor movement.

 

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We met in the meadow

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Written by: oli.rob.ver
Category: Prose
Created: September 6, 2010, 4:48 pm
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There was grass and then soft blanket and bodies lay naked and complimentary under half moons and full night skies where each star glowed as if promises were fulfilled on desires and whims.  And grasses lay damp and bodies would end in such places giving even the ants the opportunity for nibbles on what flesh was available.

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Falling through Autumn

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Written by: oli.rob.ver
Category: Prose
Created: September 5, 2010, 9:08 pm
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She said to me ‘what were the first thoughts that before you knew already were, and had realized themselves in voices and sounds….’

We waited for the time when whatever we could would materialize from behind branches and shrouded histories to

be something unwritten.

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C.S.A.

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Written by: rpoppen
Category: Prose
Created: September 3, 2010, 7:48 pm
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C.S.A.

"Hey dude. Check this out " Marcus called to his roommate. They had stopped for gas at a station off the interstate a little south of Atlanta. Joel was filling the tank of his Honda and Marcus stood looking at the pickup truck parked at the pump in front of them.

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Flux

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Written by: WmAnthony
Category: Prose
Created: September 2, 2010, 6:33 am
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Flux
Wm. Anthony Connolly

I’ve changed my hairstyle so many times now; I don’t know what I look like.
– Talking Heads “Life during Wartime”


There ought to be in every hand a well-thumbed and annotated copy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It should be found – splayed its leaves fattened with moisture and sun – wedged between windshields and dashboards.

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