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On The New Road

June 15, 2020by Miss Alister 4 Comments

I saw footage of a girl sitting atop a cliff overlooking the ocean, knees hugged to her, her hair and the seagrass blowing inland together. The sea was being the sea, slamming itself against the rocks below her, its sprays like hands with misted fingertips….

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covid-19, history, life, nature, non-fiction, quest for light, the meaning of life II, the ocean, the world, think piece

Remember Me Thursday

September 26, 2013by Miss Alister 6 Comments

Green note: surprise, surprise, yes, well I’ve been at the big top watching death dance round life below a troupe of lesser dark entities descending on ropes of fire, all […]

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dogs are cool, non-fiction, quest for light

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 […]

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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 […]

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fiction, quest for light, Sunday Scribblings

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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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 […]

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fiction, quest for light, religion

The delicious hours

December 27, 2009by Miss Alister 33 Comments

   “the melancholy twilight” by kate elizabeth   I was blank, like a fenced-off portion of an untouched field of snow.  Only my face could be seen amidst my body […]

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quest for light, Sunday Scribblings

Last tracks

December 21, 2009by Miss Alister 23 Comments

What to do with the dead things watching all around like shepherds abiding in the field?  They watch from inside the walls, from inside the car and living room sound […]

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life, quest for light, Sunday Scribblings

The last mile

October 29, 2009by Miss Alister 9 Comments

This leaf caught my eye on my cool-down mile this morning.  My eyes are trained to look for hearts in leaves, for lady bugs and dragonflies and rainbows and signs of all kinds, […]

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life, Nova, quest for light, running

The Jules Letters: Oranges and reds

September 19, 2009by Miss Alister 11 Comments

NOTE:  After reading Stephen Levine’s book, “A Year to Live,” and discovering the concept of reconciliatory letters, Jules began the process of sending letters like mad—both physically and via her […]

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fiction, hendrix, Jules, quest for light, Sunday Scribblings

Where the sun shines

September 14, 2009by Miss Alister 13 Comments

 Photo – Javier’s Cantena © Guerin Design Jenna got all dolled up for her dinner date.  Little black cocktail dress with a matching bolero jacket, sheer black hose, black heels.  […]

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fiction, quest for light, Sunday Scribblings

Clyde River Hardware

August 3, 2009by Miss Alister 12 Comments

  The two farmers went down like the river goes down, past fields and more fields of stunted crops and on into town to one of the last old time […]

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fiction stew, quest for light, Sunday Scribblings

How to crack writer’s block

July 11, 2009by Miss Alister 24 Comments

Photo Coal Train Graff © thosalumpagus Click play for some coaltrain while you read, Blue Train Coltrane, that is…    First you whine and piss and moan about your sorry condition to everyone within […]

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Coltrane, fiction, jazz, quest for light, Sunday Scribblings

Operation Bandwagon

June 3, 2009by Miss Alister 13 Comments

Here’s a goofy character study amidst three settings because I was incapable of any great thing this week.  And because the props here are a guitarist, an artist, and a […]

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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

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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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The Salvation Skits

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Photo "Come Reach Me Baby" © Sarah Bloom

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

The Vignettes Series

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Ruthey
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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
3 – The Goat Notes

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