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Another Janet Reid contest: "Ma, this ain't no place for kids.""
THE "A" WORD
Another Janet Reid contest: "Mrs. Hawley shouldn't see such things!"
YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, COPPER!
Another Janet Reid contest: "Surrender? Don'cha know, we're headed for paradise!"
TREADMILL
Another Janet Reid contest: "I'm gliding through the restaurant on my husband's arm..."
MAC THE IT MAN
Another Janet Reid contest: "Mac, darling, can you come over and fix my computer?"
A CHRISTMAS MEMORY ON FATHER'S DAY
Another Janet Reid contest: "Trudging uphill, dragging that spindly spruce..."
DEATH EX MACHINA: SCENE 3, TAKE 14. ACTION!
Another Janet Reid contest: "About Gary's contract...."
A BRIEF ACROSTIC FOR DIVORCE
Another Janet Reid contest: "Undeterred by my wife's nightly cold shoulder...."
I LEFT MY HEART AT MISS BESSIE'S
Another Janet Reid contest: "One day Grandma came with the sheriff and took me away...."
HOMERUN HOLDEN
Another Janet Reid contest: "I should've left at the first whiff of her Shalimar."
THE MAYOR'S LAST PICTURE SHOW
Another Janet Reid contest: "He seemed even smaller in death with his pants around his ankles."
UNTIL I REPENT
Another Janet Reid contest: "Doc said he'd just stopped breathing. Cause unknown."
HE'S KNOWN AS THE LONG BEACH SANDMAN
Another Janet Reid contest: "the lawyer who puts juries to sleep..."
CONFESSION IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL
Another Janet Reid contest: "To reach the beautiful thing that awaits you, just keep up the good work."
HER CHEATIN' HEART
Another Janet Reid contest: "I saw her...with him...through a gap in the drapes."
HOW I BECAME A MAN, BY LUIGI ABBADELLI
Another Janet Reid contest: "Wearing short pants when you're ten is embarrassing"
MADEMOISELLE JANET, SHE PEEKED!
Another Janet Reid contest: "Oh mon dieu! Magnifique!"
Another Janet Reid contest; You'd think kindergarten would be easy.
COLOR ME CONTEST
Another contest; Yes, the painting continues.
WHAT DO YOU CALL A GROUP OF FEMALE FANS?
Fiction: Another contest; Hey, doll, remember that song?
THE DREAD OF A LABEL FAR WORSE THAN 'DEAD'
Poem: Another Janet Reid contest. It's the usual 100-word limit, but I used only 76!
JANET REID'S "GONE FISHING' WRITING CONTEST"
Fiction: Another contest; Cath watched a couple of queens plying their trade...
3 DEGREES CHUM BUCKET PANTS
Fiction: Another contest; We're filming "Samson Does Delilah." Samson's with the fluffer...
THE NAME'S SPADE, SAM SPADE
Fiction: Another Janet Reid contest (and she's a character in my entry)
GEORGE CLOONEY IS SO OVER MISS SNARK
Poem: I had never heard of an "erasure" poem until...
FROM A STACK OF BOOKS EMERGED A POEM
Poem: One of Janet Reid's fun contests. I didn't win, but I was a finalist.
57 DAYS UNTIL SEPTEMBER
Poem: Stuck in summer while remembering spring and wishing for fall.
A MOMENTARY DETOUR INTO WHIMSY
Fiction: Each February I slowly become Irish.
MANDY PATINKIN, OLDER BAREFOOT GENTS & ME
The non-fiction account of my Mandy Patinkin fiction.
CONVERSATIONS WITH GRANDPA
Fiction: Inspired by one of Miss Snark's fun contests.
YOU WON’T TELL, WILL YOU RIGBY?
Fiction: “Did y’tell your husband where you was going?”
RENDEZVOUS WITH ANGELO
Fiction: ...wearing nothing more than my raincoat and a whisper of my mama’s Chanel No. 5.
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH (AND MRS. GRISWALD'S PITS)
Fact & Fiction: "There she stood, arms stretched heavenward, waiting for a standing O, while the class sat there repulsed by the sight of her hairy pits."
DANCING WITH ANDY GARCIA
Fiction: It's another one of Janet Reid's flash fiction contests !!
Another Janet Reid contest: Finding her cell triggered a Tripwire of memories.
COLOR ME CONTEST
Another contest; Yes, the painting continues.
WHAT DO YOU CALL A GROUP OF FEMALE FANS?
Fiction: Another contest; Hey, doll, remember that song?
THE DREAD OF A LABEL FAR WORSE THAN 'DEAD'
Poem: Another Janet Reid contest. It's the usual 100-word limit, but I used only 76!
JANET REID'S "GONE FISHING' WRITING CONTEST"
Fiction: Another contest; Cath watched a couple of queens plying their trade...
3 DEGREES CHUM BUCKET PANTS
Fiction: Another contest; We're filming "Samson Does Delilah." Samson's with the fluffer...
THE NAME'S SPADE, SAM SPADE
Fiction: Another Janet Reid contest (and she's a character in my entry)
GEORGE CLOONEY IS SO OVER MISS SNARK
Poem: I had never heard of an "erasure" poem until...
FROM A STACK OF BOOKS EMERGED A POEM
Poem: One of Janet Reid's fun contests. I didn't win, but I was a finalist.
57 DAYS UNTIL SEPTEMBER
Poem: Stuck in summer while remembering spring and wishing for fall.
A MOMENTARY DETOUR INTO WHIMSY
Fiction: Each February I slowly become Irish.
MANDY PATINKIN, OLDER BAREFOOT GENTS & ME
The non-fiction account of my Mandy Patinkin fiction.
CONVERSATIONS WITH GRANDPA
Fiction: Inspired by one of Miss Snark's fun contests.
YOU WON’T TELL, WILL YOU RIGBY?
Fiction: “Did y’tell your husband where you was going?”
RENDEZVOUS WITH ANGELO
Fiction: ...wearing nothing more than my raincoat and a whisper of my mama’s Chanel No. 5.
Fiction: "Bonus points if you guess what the Something Amazing is!"
Fiction: "Let's celebrate ALL the Edgar nominees for Best First Novel!"
DO NOT GO GENTLY INTO THE ER
DO NOT GO GENTLY INTO THE ER
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH (AND MRS. GRISWALD'S PITS)
Fact & Fiction: "There she stood, arms stretched heavenward, waiting for a standing O, while the class sat there repulsed by the sight of her hairy pits."
DANCING WITH ANDY GARCIA
Fiction: It's another one of Janet Reid's flash fiction contests !!
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