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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 […]

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

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 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

Ave María

December 21, 2008by Miss Alister 10 Comments

  “…The yearning to be rescued is stronger than anything I’ve known, yet I know it’s a lie, deep down.  I know it’s up to me, but the circumstances of […]

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fiction, life, love, quest for light, religion, Sunday Scribblings

Let him among you who is without sin…

November 22, 2008by Miss Alister 12 Comments

.     James left the church a convicted man.  The preacher’s sermon had ripped into his holier-than-thou heart and exposed the stench of his arrogance.  At the time, he’d […]

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fiction, humor, religion, Sunday Scribblings

Feeding the soul on imaginary money

October 7, 2008by Miss Alister 4 Comments

.   It’s happening again.  I’m supposed to be working but I’m moving impulsively, compulsively about Blogworld.  My head is supposed to be in Utah, but it’s been to Texas […]

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folderol, life, quest for light, religion

Martyr in Heartsville

February 14, 2008by Miss Alister 11 Comments

  I wasn’t planning on doing any writing today, well maybe a few comments during the process of reconnecting with the wonderful world of blogging.  I had gotten a late […]

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love, novelists, poets, religion

Paper or plastic?

February 8, 2008by Miss Alister 13 Comments

  . “The Star Market . The people Jesus loved were shopping at the Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout breathed so heavily […]

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poets, religion

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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
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Interview with a quitter
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1-The Salvation Skits, as published on disenthralled
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2-The Sunshine Vignettes
3-The Barstool Vignettes

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2 – One Star Brighter
3 – Oranges and Reds

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2 – The mere mention of Chicago
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