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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 years, 2 months ago
Richard D. Key is the 2nd place winner in Streetlight’s 2021 Flash Fiction Contest
In this episode of PTGTTS I’ll be talking about Earth, a little planet out at the edge of the galaxy, not to be c […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
Marjory Ruderman is the 1st place winner in Streetlight’s 2021 Flash Fiction Contest
Phoebe was busier than ever, juggling depression and a midlife crisis. She dreamt of favorable circumstances […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
Splish! Splash! There’s high drama in the clashes of two wine glasses, martini olives swirling, peppermints spinning in the Schnapps! Watermelon, cherries and tomatoes are sprayed fresh and ready to […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
Jared lies in bed, propped up by his arms folded behind his head, a two-day stubble peppering his face and neck. One foot dangles off the side of the mattress. Dark, wiry hairs spring out of his leg, exposed […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
The Twitter world ‘blew-up’ with writers weighing in on the “Bad Art Friend” article in the New York Times in early October (NY Times link below).
I had sympathized with the kidney donor whose life and letter […]
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
I’ve published five books (three nonfiction and two fiction) and there’s so much I wish I would have known before publishing, that I now know through the long, hard road of experience. Whether you’re going the […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
He’s in one of my rooms. I pay attention to it now, because his window is closest to the nurses’ station and faces the automatic doors I push my cleaning cart through. I see him as soon as the doors bre […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
I’ve had the honor of officiating many weddings over the past two decades. They’ve all been beautiful in their way, but more often than not the vows exchanged have been—naive, to say the least. I know min […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
It was about 2:45 a.m., and Sherin George sat miserably on a ratty sofa in a cabin in rural Uttarakhand State in North India. She was exhausted and wanted nothing more than to lie down and sleep, b […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 years, 5 months ago
People have lost their minds.
Seriously.
They’re comparing masks to yellow stars and saying vaccine passports are signs of tyranny, refusing to comply as a sign of resistance.
Please.
My dog […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 4 years, 5 months ago
Art creation is an organic process for me, where inspiration takes the lead and my hands merely follow. The traditional media in my repertoire includes pen, colored pencil, and acrylic paint. I am also […]
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Elizabeth Howard replied to the topic Chroma Opens October Show in the forum Suzanne Freeman 4 years, 5 months ago
“Pandemonium: Postcards from the Edge“ asks artists to take an ordinary U.S. Mail postcard and paint, draw or mark it in some way. The resulting missives can focus on the political, societal or public health events that have rocked our collective world since March 2020, or they can highlight an artist’s individual practice in isola…[Read more]
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Trudy commented on the post, Once Upon a Time In Montecito by Trudy Hale 4 years, 5 months ago
Dear Bess,
Thank you. Yes, Billy would have loved the absurdity
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 4 years, 5 months ago
Do you constantly compare yourself to other writers?
Do you set goals for yourself as a writer and then somehow fall short of them every time?
Do you start new writing practices full of enthusiasm, but then […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 years, 5 months ago
Aunt Maggie laughs with a Marlboro Red clamped between her lips. A metallic party hat sits atop her matted, white hair, fastened with a cheap elastic band under her turkey-wattle chin. Today s […]
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Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, Once Upon a Time In Montecito by Trudy Hale 4 years, 6 months ago
Love this!
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Trudy wrote a new post 4 years, 6 months ago
This is a true story.
After my husband Billy died in June of 2020, his ‘step daughter’ Zoe, a beautiful and vivacious woman of fifty offered her home in Santa Barbara to hold his memorial. We waited until the […]
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Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, How to Weigh Loss by Charlotte Matthews 4 years, 6 months ago
Such an evocative and beautiful poem.
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 years, 6 months ago
“I’m going to tweet about this, and I need every single English-speaking celebrity on the planet to retweet my tweet. This is monstrous.”
We are stopped at a red light. Devon, my husband of ten ye […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 4 years, 6 months ago
Michael Snyder has traveled the world, camera in hand, documenting the stories of those concerned with environmental change and sustainability and the spaces they inhabit.
“I want to be very inte […]
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