Guest post to win a free Apple MacBook Air?!!

Filed Under (Consumer Product, Corporate, Writing) by lhodsdon on 17-07-2008

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Right now Smashing Magazine is holding a contest to it’s readers with a grand prize of a free Apple MacBook Air. All you have to do it write intriguing, original guest posts for them. The requirements are fairly short, 400-1200 characters.
Apple MacBook Air

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Writing: Cookie Season by Kristen Schott

Filed Under (Writing) by lhodsdon on 26-05-2008

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Springtime: sunshine, blooming flowers, light rains, birds chirping, and the sensation that the world is starting anew. It also means Girl Scout Cookies.

All across the nation, little girls and their mothers post themselves in front of grocery stores, on street corners, and up and down neighborhood streets, always with an array of the most delectable assortment of cookies imaginable in their Red Radio Flyer Wagons. Thin Mints, Tagalongs, Samoas, Treefoils, Do-Si-Do’s, and All Abouts wait anxiously on display for their next customer to snatch them up greedily.

During the Girl Scout Cookie season all resolves for healthier eating die as men, women, children, and pets see the little girls with eager eyes and a plethora of cookies staring up at them begging courteously to, “Please support our troop!” And for three dollars a box, what sick person wouldn’t support this battle for little girls everywhere?

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