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Tag Archives: prose
Mid-day Post, April 11, 2017
He smiled when he got out of his car and saw there in the weeds the old pipe jutting from the hillside and draining the little spring. The pipe rusted and bent, maybe even more than before, but this sight … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, cooking, creative writing, fiction, fitness, food, paleo, photography, poetry, prose, travel, writing
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The Horses
We top the mountain going seventy miles an hour and look away into the new vista away west and see that the hills below and to the north are cleared pasture and horses how many horses – fifty – dot the hillside so … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, blogging, creative writing, highways, horses, kerouac, modern poetry, poetry, prose, prose poem, travel, writing
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Evening Post, October 10, 2014
She told me to come on, that this might be the last warm night before winter. The stars were out, she said. I knew that, just by looking. You could see the Milky Way like a highway of diamonds splitting … Continue reading
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Tagged beatnik, beats, beauty, jack kerouac, kerouac, love, modern poetry, poetry, prose, prose poem, the beats
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New Short Story
Just written by Joseph E. Bird. It’s a great story and you get the whole thing in one piece. Here’s the link: http://labeak53.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/joseph-e-bird/
Stealing Time, Stealing Beauty
The best days of summer were after school had started. I knew this and no one else did. While the other kids were wrapped up in football and band and decorating for the fall dances – all those things that … Continue reading
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Tagged high school, memoir, memory, modern poetry, nostalgia, poem, prose
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New Novel
(My new novel – this one is number three – was born last night. Here is the first stab at the opening paragraphs. Working title: Because It Is Beautiful.) She was forty-two when her husband died. Both of her … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, creative writing, fiction, literary fiction, new novel, novel, novel in progress, prose
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The Mooneys
The first people who lived on this hill were the Mooneys. Long gone now, they were ancient, even when I was just a boy. Jessie and Martha sat fat in metal chairs all day long. Like two mounds of mashed … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, prose, short prose, short short story, short story, story
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