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In the Neighborhood: The Golden Goose
You know how this works, but as always, a gentle reminder:Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs. Goggies are dogs, too, and moggies are cats. Birds...are birds! Peeps are people. PWB Peeps are Pooties,...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Fiction: Some short-short stories and one or two others....
Lost It was all over but balloons drifting down as their helium expired, and spilled refreshments staining the banquet tablecloths, and clots of confetti everywhere. The only figures still moving...
View ArticleA 2020 reading challenge: 52 books by women of color in 52 weeks -- February...
We should all be challenging ourselves to read more. More volume. More broadly. More viewpoints. More better.February – an awesome continuation to 2020’s Reading Challenge (please see 52 books by...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP: More shortish stories and one or two longish ones.
Jack’s End Catfooting down the dank, blankwalled alley, the Ripper awaited the inevitable moment of screechings of nearby cats to muffle his final rush at the slattern limping mere yards ahead along...
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It Could Happen to You
The Karnakos home...Mountain Lakes, New Jersey...9:27pm, February 13, 2011...Delia lay on her side; wondering if this was the last Valentine’s Day together. Jason had been ill for some time, and the...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP: Short tales per prose and per verse.
To start with….Two Tales in A Version of the Ongoing Saga of a Callow Youth & Stout ComradeOne, in playscript form(8/8/2013)[Our young androgenous protagonists bedizen themselves with bastard...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP: Three short stories
The burn pileAfter my grandfather died, the field behind our house was left to grow up with brush. At some point my father decided to have the whole thing cleared off, and while he was at it, to clear...
View ArticleContemporary Fiction Views: Vivid dreamscapes
One unexpected aspect of this unexpected stay-home months has been vivid dreams. Not just any kind of dream, but the kind that make sense while they are unfolding, continue even if you know you are...
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⏹️⏹️Original Fiction, Poetry & Memoir For Fun & Progress Illustrated...
Our bookshelf to date, right at your fingertips:Dark Redemption, an urban gothic fantasy novel by writer/artist quarkstomper, chapters running Wednesdays mid-evening right here at OFPMFP and at...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Creative NonFiction: The Grower
The GrowerChapter One The Budding Entrepreneur Many many years ago, like all the way back in the seventies, the federal government was operating a marijuana research program at the University of...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Short Fiction: After the First Four or Five Times Dying
By methodological means, Calebai reached certain hypotheses — after the first four or five times, you do have to. So, it did occur to her that those mightn’t have been recoveries from war wounds...
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Contemporary Fiction Views: Upcoming and available reads
A novel about the Wobblies, protests and rich gentry in a small Northwest city just after the turn of the last century? Yes, please. Jess Walter, one of the most insightful writers I know, has his...
View ArticleContemporary Fiction Views: A divine gift
"At some point you have to accept it. The real world isn't made of poetry."So a doctor tells her best friend, an assistant professor, before she is diagnosed with terminal cancer in "Talinda", one of...
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In the Neighborhood: A Halloween Story
You know how this works, but as always, a gentle reminder:Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs. Goggies are dogs, too, and moggies are cats. Birds...are birds! Peeps are people. PWB Peeps are Pooties,...
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In the Neighborhood: We Gather Together
You know how this works, but as always, a gentle reminder:Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs. Goggies are dogs, too, and moggies are cats. Birds...are birds! Peeps are people. PWB Peeps are Pooties,...
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In the Neighborhood: The Fruit Collector
You know how this works, but as always, a gentle reminder:Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs. Goggies are dogs, too, and moggies are cats. Birds...are birds! Peeps are people. PWB Peeps are Pooties,...
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Contemporary Fiction Views: Keep it short
One of the great delights of reading is inhaling a well-crafted short story. It may have a great significance to a small portion of the meaning of life. Or it may be a quirky tale that pinpoints a...
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In the Neighborhood: Farley and the UFO
Here are few not-too-onerous PWB rulesDo not “Troll” the Pootie Peeps Diaries. If you don’t like animal diaries, there’s no need to tell us about it. Just go find some other diary more to your...
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In the Neighborhood: Clyde Goes Green
Here are few not-too-onerous PWB rulesDo not “Troll” the Pootie Peeps Diaries. If you don’t like animal diaries, there’s no need to tell us about it. Just go find some other diary more to your...
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In the Neighborhood: The Whiskey Spring
Here are few not-too-onerous PWB rulesDo not “Troll” the Pootie Peeps Diaries. If you don’t like animal diaries, there’s no need to tell us about it. Just go find some other diary more to your...
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