Call of the Weird, by Drew Hayden Taylor
Walk to Morning, by Joseph Boyden
Kissing Billy Draper by Richard Wagamase
Not so Scary After All by Steven King
I cannot Explain my Fear by Papatya Bucak
A Hanging, by George Orwell
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From Wordy to Concise (chart)
Eliminating Wordiness Exercise #1
Writing Tight: Editing Out Redundancies