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Go ahead, jump

November 6, 2014by Miss Alister 8 Comments

“I found myself on the other side of the door and at the top of a precipice. Now I find myself at the beginning of the story. The destruction is […]

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non-fiction, what if?, writers

‘Apostle Rising’ debut after-party notes

March 11, 2011by Miss Alister 2 Comments

 The Veuve Clicquot is flowing tonight.  There are no Lenten sacrifices besides the odd politician and sex worker.  It’s Fat Thursday, the day Richard Godwin’s blue-eyed Apostle begins his rise.  […]

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reviews, writers

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

Prescription writing

June 23, 2009by Miss Alister 12 Comments

I fell in love with a writer featured in the June 2009 Sun Mag (more on that later) and got stuck into planning a long short for ESC that spins off of […]

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fiction, Sunday Scribblings, writers

Ms. Flan in ink on card stock with gouache color

June 6, 2009by Miss Alister 7 Comments

  Illustration © 2009 Christine Marie Larsen   The strange, prickly ways of Flannery O’Connor [1], Anna Arco calls it.  I should be so strange and prickly!  Stranger even, and […]

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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
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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
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3-The Barstool Vignettes

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2 – One Star Brighter
3 – Oranges and Reds

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