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Wild West BS

July 27, 2014by Miss Alister 14 Comments

No sooner than the man had downed his shot, the front door blasted open and the patrons sprang back in their seats as six, black-masked marauders rushed in. Their capes fluttering back behind them made them look like crows landing in a corn field.

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It could have gone like this

July 20, 2014by Miss Alister 12 Comments

This is an alternate ending to “Mucha Bravado”

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Mucha Bravado

July 12, 2014by Miss Alister 21 Comments

Bunny rushed his full tub back to the kitchen, grabbed an empty on his way back to the dining room and began working table nine. He couldn’t keep his eyes off the doe-eyed woman, kept stealing pieces of her in glances.

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Euclidean Trippin’

February 20, 2014by Miss Alister 10 Comments

Image Credit: club Bow, NYC (now closed) from Daily Details Locals call him Red-Eye, always off a midnight flight – he walks crisp in his business suit and blown-back hair […]

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fiction stew, folderol, noir, 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 […]

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

Alright, Fine, It Ain’t Half Bad…

January 3, 2011by Miss Alister 14 Comments

Harold Bloom Photo from One Poet’s Notes Lots of Top Ten-, Five-, and even One-ing going on in the crime-writing circle which I mostly hang on the outskirts of.  For […]

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critics, folderol, non-fiction

Jammin’

August 28, 2010by Miss Alister 5 Comments

NOTE:  I’m haunted by hollow tones, breathy flute notes.  Jammin’ guitar is more my style.  But being haunted by quenas is different, because of the evening redness in the west. […]

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Oneword: leash

July 16, 2010by Miss Alister 16 Comments

Drawing © Ivan Kuleko, writer . Note: The best thing about this silly oneword is finding Ivan Kuleko’s drawings while I was looking for an image to bring meaning to the silliness. […]

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folderol, oneword, quest for light, writers

What the hey…

June 29, 2010by Miss Alister 8 Comments

…a oneword for fun.  Prompt was “spike.”   Photo “Dawn #3” © cfarivar Chester bounced out the jetway and trotted off to make his connecting flight.  About midway to his […]

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Just go ahead now

January 24, 2010by Miss Alister 14 Comments

Photo “you, there” © kate elizabeth Things is strange. Scrawled-on Windjammer bar napkins lie in wait.  Psycho Liza, a chunky Elvira, is on one of them.  She shows up at […]

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folderol, on the menu

Girl of tomorrow morning

November 26, 2009by Miss Alister 9 Comments

I’ve come close to a culture overdose during my time in Ithaca.  Reminds me of my Dallas days when anything I wanted was just a short way away.  I’d about forgotten […]

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folderol, guitarists, life

Nathanial Crum

September 29, 2009by Miss Alister 9 Comments

Light Drawing, “Poseidon” 1979 © Eric Staller The Westhaven Writers’ Club’s second Writer’s Voice workshop session had just ended and Nathanial Crum was hounding the Big Guns as usual, disrupting the […]

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fiction, folderol, humor, Sunday Scribblings

Babes is babes

August 7, 2009by Miss Alister 7 Comments

“Here he comes again.  Last week he brought me plastic flowers.”   More captions from readers: “So then I told him that I felt like people were always watching me […]

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folderol, humor

If you don’t know, I’m not going to tell you

June 8, 2009by Miss Alister 16 Comments

ESC’s still going on but I’m so tired of trying so hard that I blew off Ms. Flan and upped the goof level from last week’s SS offering to this […]

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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

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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

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

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1-The Miracle Vignettes
2-The Sunshine Vignettes
3-The Barstool Vignettes

The Jules Letters Series

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

The Chicago Series with Lyn

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