Saturday, August 15, 2015

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URBAN REMOVAL
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: Finding her cell triggered a Tripwire of memories.

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: Another contest

"A DEAD MAN FELL FROM THE SKY..."
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
Fact: Sometimes a chest pain is just an unrelenting stabbing pain that has nothing at all to do with your heart.


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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