Friday, August 8, 2008
Submit! Submit!
No, it's not a dominance thing. It's a reminder to writers to get their best stuff out there. I've got so much stuff in the file, interesting (at least to me) stories that deserve an audience. But I dawdle and procrastinate. The stories don't get any fresher. So yesterday I tucked a chapter of...
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Please -- a short short story
“Please,” she wails, hands extended, palms up, kneeling on the sidewalk. He has no idea what she wants. He hopes she perceives him as a deadly threat, looming suddenly out of the darkness. “Please,” she cries again. She begs, but he feels nothing for her. It is too late. He circles around onto the...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
OMG -- I've become one of THEM...
There's always some old person at the family gathering with stories to tell. Ol' Uncle Mac latches onto one of the tweens and starts the 49th retelling of how it was when he was a boy. The eyes glaze over and the unfortunate kid starts edging away before he even gets started. The stories and the old...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
A question for Bloggers
Some magazines and books consider things posted on a web blog as previously published. Since they don't accept submissions that have been in print anywhere else, stories posted here may never make it to the print media. With this in mind, would you still blog your fiction or poetry?
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Monday, August 4, 2008
I just thought of something...
Few minutes ago I was watching something weird on the Sci Fi Channel -- one of those updated high tech pod people things -- "Threshhold" which is actually pretty interesting. It's about how the aliens have infected tomatoes and things, and anyone who eats their veggies begins dreaming the same dream...
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Sunday, August 3, 2008
Auld Lang Syne
Here's a toast to absent friends, the poets and singers, the dancers and do-ers, artists and muses who motivated us to say and do our best. How we miss their participation in the life of this place. Here’s to life and love and keeping on, to slogging through the mud. Here’s to bright moons and warm...
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Saturday, August 2, 2008
Not-so-scary medical story...
I was up at 5:30, took my meds with one swallow of water, put clean dishes away, loaded the ones from the sink, pulled sheets off my bed and threw a load of whites into the washer. Best way to stop worrying is to keep busy. Took a shower, no deoderant, no hair spray, no lotions, no powder, no...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
OK, there's some good news, but yesterday was yuck!
It was cool and overcast most of the day. That's good news. I was up and ready, grabbed my purse at 7:29 by the clock on the wall. The plan was to stop at the Shell station two blocks over, and then head for the surgical center a bit early for my pre-op bits. Ruby T, my ultra-dependable little...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Lost Boys
There was a lost boy on the 5:30 news - kid got lost in the woods in Missouri somewhere south and west of St. Louis. It seems this fourteen-year-old and a couple of his friends were out pranking last night, knocking on doors and running away and who knows what other mischief. Someone charged out...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Reading Annie Proulx
I believe Annie Proulx may be the best writer of this generation. There's just more story in her stories: more character in her characters, shades of meaning, half-truths and word pictures with the clarity and detail of an Ansel Adams photograph. Close Range: Wyoming Stories is on my desk at the...
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