Tag: writing
member name: Cindy Kelly
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September 29, 2006 08:23 PM EDT --
"If your poetry comes from your soul, then I feel that as a morally upright citizen I should inform you of something... Your soul can't write either."
-My friend Laslo (to The Bored . . .
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October 11, 2006 07:57 PM EDT --
I come up with scary names
for villains, scoundrels,
rascals, riff raff.
I imagine knocking
down the street,
come up with ways
to protect me,
defeat them.
I stick my head
against the back
. . .
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September 29, 2006 02:47 PM EDT --
The rain stopped
an hour ago,
water still lies in puddles,
Maria Garcia walks round
the alley with a tin pan,
looking through the gravel
in the gutters for coins –
a penny here,
a . . .
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February 05, 2007 02:46 AM EST --
Whee.
Shine! The Journal of Flash Fiction published one of my poems, "Kairos," in the February Issue, online now. I'm in pretty good company, I think. Especially check . . .
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October 01, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
An Open Letter to People Who Think Grammar and Spelling are not Important
Disclaimer: What follows is my opinion. It's based on nothing more than my own experiences.
Don't . . .
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October 01, 2006 08:19 PM EDT --
my groups
my gathering stars star page
cool stuff to do on the internet when you're bored
Cindy: Iconoclast? Thoughts and Summary of the Riso/Hudson Personality Enneagram
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September 30, 2006 01:36 PM EDT --
You can't hope to correct a problem if you're not aware you have one. Therefore, I've made up this little style sheet to help people become aware of the things I've seen lately that . . .
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February 20, 2007 03:04 AM EST --
I don't care how wonderful a piece of poetry or short fiction is. If it's got funky formatting with half of the sentences in purple 89 point Courier New and the other half of the sentences . . .
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October 06, 2006 08:04 PM EDT --
I just read something wonderful. Charles Lennox IV's "Feather" is a delightful short fiction fairy tale full of whimsy. Its subtle power is hopeful and at the same time very eerie. . . .
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September 29, 2006 07:34 PM EDT --
Cindy's Groups
This has become somewhat of a meme around gather, but here's a list of my groups. If anyone wants to join them, or if you know anyone who might be interested in them, . . .
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January 23, 2007 08:47 PM EST --
In Fiction Writing I on Thursday, I was assigned to write the worst short story I could using 2 index cards supplied by a random draw from the pile the class made during a brainstorming exercise. . . .
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April 04, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
So you want to get work published? As most of us know, almost every literary journal or literary magazine is now considering internet-posts a form of being "previously published" - It's . . .
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October 04, 2006 06:58 PM EDT --
R0BOT5
we blinked
in rusted recognition,
we knew us
before you knew me,
i knew you, or
we knew.
& you smiled @ me
with your miss-you mouth ,
bit down hard.
i smiled back,
flashed flouride . . .
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October 05, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
Me be Star!
interests
poetry, prose, memoir, short fiction, academic writing, literary criticism, rhetoric, linguistics, the craft of writing, art, painting, writing, being a nerd, sewing, crafting, . . .
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September 24, 2006 03:40 AM EDT --
i.
the gerbil runs the wheel,
round around and again,
dependent on the structure
it provides,
works so hard
runs so fast
to stand so still,
pretending to be ignorant
of his lack of progress.
. . .
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September 24, 2006 07:54 AM EDT --
day says, "nightfriend,
hold my hand."
night says, "hey day,
hayday,"
follows blind
behind.
they chase,
never catch
each other.
they stand
next to each other
sometimes as . . .
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October 05, 2006 01:24 AM EDT --
How She Hurt Him
by Jamie Barlow
If I could be
who you wanted
all the time,
and if I could
turn back time,
I'd be the boy
who didn't sell
your lunchbox
to the pawnshop. . . .
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July 13, 2007 07:44 PM EDT --
The first issue of Plain Spoke is now available for sale.
36 pages. Saddle staple. Cover Art by Edith-Dinger Wadkins.
Poetry by: David Trame, Amy Sargent, Emma Traumberg, Lincoln Albert . . .
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October 05, 2006 04:11 AM EDT --
My '80s, His '80s
Wayne Koestenbaum?s "'80s," written stylistically in a choppy list of short paragraphs, sets the right mood for describing an era of disjointed and inhuman materialism. . . .
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February 05, 2007 02:30 PM EST --
Tentative list (so far) of Contributors for Plain Spoke Vol. 1 no. 1
Short Stories:
"The Lotto" by Tim Davis
*"East Carson Street Parade" by Cindy Kelly
*"Memories of Liquor . . .
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