The Essence of a Thing

vintage miss alister 2008 to 2015

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • About Miss Alister

Category Archives: fiction

On the second day of the second month…

January 20, 2014by Miss Alister 12 Comments

Green Note: I have no real idea who Magical Mystical Teacher is, but said entity has taken over Sunday Scribblings, and this is the second of three prompts that have […]

Read Article →
architects, Best of Miss A, bizzaro, fiction, humor, religion, Sunday Scribblings

Test the threshold

January 13, 2014by Miss Alister 11 Comments

Photo: From author Sarah Beth Durst’s “Sarah’s Journal”, a freaky fresco on the 1879 Hall at Forbes College – Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Story Title: From Blue 9’s Penal Colony […]

Read Article →
fiction, folderol, Miss A's Also-Rans, Sunday Scribblings, the dark

The Greenhorn Report and Supporting Evidence

January 6, 2014by Miss Alister 9 Comments

Green note: I’d planned to stick a bookmark on this site to do with my first wrangling with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and now, a month out from the […]

Read Article →
fiction, NaNoWriMo, non-fiction, Psycho Liza, Sunday Scribblings

Parent Directory

June 17, 2012by Miss Alister 22 Comments

Green note: outside of work, I been sloshing around, thinking, reading new authors, failing to post book reviews like I said I would, revisiting Kerouac, wondering about Jack Ketchum and […]

Read Article →
Best of Miss A, fiction, SciFi, Sunday Scribblings

Psycho Liza after Dulville: Give it over

June 26, 2011by Miss Alister 5 Comments

Green note: Here’s another fast job. Just trying to get down ideas for Psycho Liza episodes (you can read the first episode here).  This is another idea that kicked off […]

Read Article →
Best of Miss A, fiction, Psycho Liza, Sunday Scribblings

The spirit of Slade: The next step

June 12, 2011by Miss Alister 19 Comments

Green note: This guy Slade popped out in a Oneword earlier this month and he dogged me to the point I used SS #271 to explore him more.  So here […]

Read Article →
Best of Miss A, fiction, oneword, Psycho Liza, Sunday Scribblings
Dive_MAIN_520x347

Thursdays in Dulville, GA

May 24, 2011by Miss Alister 11 Comments

The door to the pub flew open and hit the wall with a sound like a single shot bang. Everybody in the place jumped a mile high and looked toward the source of the commotion, their nerves jarring their limbs like jackhammers.

Read Article →
Best of Miss A, fiction, Psycho Liza

The Salvation Skits: Happy Anniversary Val and May

January 1, 2011by Miss Alister 6 Comments

This blog’s been quiet for so long I figured it’d be just another day like the other days.  But ever since waking this morning I’ve been nagged by Val and […]

Read Article →
fiction, humor, life, love, photographers, quest for light, religion

The Barstool Vignettes

September 26, 2010by Miss Alister 16 Comments

NOTE:  There’s some things get figured out on barstools that can’t get figured out elsewhere.  These are some of those things, what follows.  Rachele, Ruthey, and LeeAnn of The Miracle […]

Read Article →
fiction, quest for light, Sunday Scribblings

You gonna eat that?

July 5, 2010by Miss Alister 20 Comments

NOTE:  This here’s a story about me and Jake, me being Dean, by the way.  Miss A was kind enough to write all this down for me.  Hope you enjoy […]

Read Article →
fiction, Sunday Scribblings

Hopeful colors

May 30, 2010by Miss Alister 32 Comments

Note: This here’s another story about Miss May, my Salvation Skits’ mousy church girl.  Since January she’s been wanting to top her inner beauty with a little outer beauty like a […]

Read Article →
Best of Miss A, fiction, Psycho Liza, Sunday Scribblings, The Salvation Skits

Zero,zero

February 16, 2010by Miss Alister 16 Comments

Image © Full Of Crow Press and Distribution   Silence broken.  Spy pigeon detected in foreign airspace.  Mission compromised.  MiCrow Winter 2009 “Half” is exposed online right now, a compilation of […]

Read Article →
fiction, MiCrow

May flowers

January 12, 2010by Miss Alister 15 Comments

Photo © Getty Images   After the rousing final hymn, the congregation seated themselves jubilantly to receive the Reverand Doctor Silbus McInnery’s benediction.  They bowed their heads and holy smiles […]

Read Article →
Best of Miss A, fiction, Sunday Scribblings, The Salvation Skits

The Salvation Skits

January 1, 2010by Miss Alister 30 Comments

Photo “Come, baby, reach me” © Sarah Bloom Well, this is just a gas, seeing “The Salvation Skits” up over at the hot, new literary journal “disenthralled.”  I spewed out […]

Read Article →
fiction, quest for light, religion

Post navigation

← Previous 1 2 3 … 7 Next →

E-Mail

missalister@hotmail.com

miss-a-brand-vintage-transp_250x250

Miss A On Twitter

  • Twitter

NaNoWriMo 2013

 https://missalister.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/2013-winner-square-button

The Great and Powerful A to Z Challenge

AtoZ_SIDEBAR260x_survivor-atoz [2014]   a-z-badge-260x260

“As a flamboyantly imaginative persona whose writing is not afraid of walking on the wild side, the author-narrator of The Essence of a Thing set off sparks in my dull, academic brain.”

—Josna Rege, “Tell Me Another”

Grab the badge and continue the story

The Beginnings Project
Click here to find out how to participate.

#FridayFlash
3ww_260x260

Excavation Area

Categories

Archives

Recent Posts

  • On The New Road
  • The Meaning of Life Through Pandemic-Colored Glasses
  • The Meaning Of Life
  • The Beginnings Project: Alternative Chapter 11
  • Beginnings Chapter 7 – The Acceptance
  • Sacred Threads and Marigolds
  • The Plight of the Trees 2
  • Go ahead, jump
  • Sacred Threads and Marigolds (4 of 4)
  • Sacred Threads and Marigolds (3 of 4)
  • Beginnings Chapter 3 – The Transference
  • Sacred Threads and Marigolds (2 of 4)
  • Sacred Threads and Marigolds (1 of 4)
  • Wild West BS
  • It could have gone like this
  • Mucha Bravado
  • Winter Mind
  • Be my guest: Richard Godwin’s “Pick-up”
  • Zero,Zero
  • Lunatic Under Glass

Recent Comments

Miss Alister on On The New Road
Miss Alister on On The New Road
Jules Smith on On The New Road
daleleelife101.blog on On The New Road
Miss Alister on The Meaning of Life Through Pa…
Miss Alister on The Meaning of Life Through Pa…
Miss Alister on The Meaning Of Life
josna on The Meaning of Life Through Pa…
Lockdown Deeper and… on The Meaning of Life Through Pa…
daleleelife101.blog on The Meaning of Life Through Pa…
daleleelife101.blog on The Meaning Of Life
Miss Alister on The Meaning of Life Through Pa…
Miss Alister on The Meaning Of Life
Jules Smith on The Meaning of Life Through Pa…
Jules Smith on The Meaning Of Life

Subscribe to feeds:

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

RSS Feed RSS - Comments

The Best of Miss Alister

Vint-Miss-A-Pen1_Best-Of_354x364

Thursdays in Dulville, GA first published here on Paul D. Brazill's You Would Say That Woudn't You?
'Zero,Zero' published in Full of Crow’s MiCrow Winter 2009 edition PDF archive, pg. 23, here
Sacred Threads and Marigolds
Wasted Space
The Destruction Symphony Orchestra
On the second day of the second month…
'You gonna eat that?'
'The Salvation Skits' published in the online literary journal, disenthralled here
The Jules Letters: Oranges and reds
Dios, te necessito
The sunshine Vignettes
The Miracle Vignettes
Last tracks
Otherwise is
The same wind
First Kiss
Prescription writing
How to crack writer’s block
Ave Maria
A Bay Girl’s Blues
A letter a night
Clyde River Hardware
Sunny, lovely
A Lovely spring morning
Sundays with Walter
American dream
Snowblind
If jewels could yearn
About Mrs. Giovanna
The one that got away
Meeting a Perpetual Past
Dirt Pie
Epilogue

Miss A’s Also-Rans

Vint-Miss-A-Pen2_Also-Rans_354x364

The delicious hours
Nathanial Crum
Adult Fairytale
‘Ol Dixie Down
Operation Bandwagon
The Cassie Chronicles: Green light baby
Where the sun shines
The inner guide dunnit
Interview with a quitter
If you don’t know, I’m not going to tell you
Power interrupt
Law of averages
Let him among you who is without sin…
Love Waiting
Solace
Wision

Look, Miss A’s in this book!

Amazon.com Kindle, Paperback

Amazon.co.uk Kindle, Paperback

The Salvation Skits

Photobucket
Photo "Come Reach Me Baby" © Sarah Bloom

1-The Salvation Skits, as published on disenthralled
2-May Flowers
3-Hopeful Colors

The Vignettes Series

Rachele
Rachel_CropT-nail02
Ruthey
Ruthey_CropT-nail02
LeeAnn
LeeAnn_CropT-nail02
1-The Miracle Vignettes
2-The Sunshine Vignettes
3-The Barstool Vignettes

The Jules Letters Series

Photobucket

1 – The Beginning
2 – One Star Brighter
3 – Oranges and Reds

The Chicago Series with Lyn

Photobucket

1 – Flying blind: Chicago, naked and pissed
2 – The mere mention of Chicago
3 – The Goat Notes

Click to feed a pup, it’s free!

FreeKibble.com LOGO_146x67px

Click to remove plastic from the ocean, it’s free!

FreeTheOcean_logo_110x110px
Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • The Essence of a Thing
    • Join 92 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Essence of a Thing
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...