Tag: fiction
member name: La Lady Lisa Westerfield
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July 06, 2006 07:13 AM EDT --
I heard he finally got what was coming to him. It took long enough if you ask me. Some of the others said he took precautions so grave robbers wouldn't steal his body. Poured cement . . .
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September 08, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
So many things to see, so little time. My doctor informs me that I have less than a year to live, four months of good health before I am most assuredly bedridden. I walk around Italy drinking . . .
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August 21, 2006 12:23 AM EDT --
I had been told that longevity runs in my family but I didn't believe it. Although my father lived into his late seventies, most of my relatives surrendered their lives much earlier to the usual . . .
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September 14, 2006 03:51 AM EDT --
It came over the horizon on the very day my father had predicted. Though he was a Priest valued for his gift of prophecy, he was only partially right about the foreigners. Because of what he . . .
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October 14, 2006 12:47 AM EDT --
We met once, I'm sure if Buck was still alive he wouldn't remember me. It was only briefly, at a grocery store no less. He was signing replica Kansas City Monarch hats for fans . . .
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July 14, 2006 07:22 PM EDT --
"Oh my God!"
"It's true, I swear it."
"She didn't."
"She did."
"Oh my God, then she's a …slut!"
"Skank! She better not . . .
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July 20, 2006 05:44 PM EDT --
I have spare moments left and yet these precious few seconds will be the only time I have ever been truly free. I breathe the stale air into . . .
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July 24, 2006 11:15 PM EDT --
Marybelle Wilson always wanted her fifteen minutes of fame but now as she talked to the perky blond reporter (whose made up face looked like it covered a bad complexion) she wished she didn't have . . .
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September 15, 2006 12:30 AM EDT --
I'm proud to announce that on September 15, 1956 a couple that were destined to be my parents were married in a Catholic church in an unassuming Midwestern town. They had met at a New Year's . . .
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June 21, 2006 12:19 PM EDT --
Take it from me, you should think twice before you claim a body part is yours when you know damn well that it isn't. About a month ago I lost a toe. It wasn't a major toe, so it took . . .
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August 04, 2006 05:25 PM EDT --
Just when did people start to hate clowns? At what point did these beloved symbols of childhood and mirth morph into objects of disdain…and why?
I sit in front of my vanity mirror and look . . .
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September 01, 2006 11:34 PM EDT --
Let me get a few things out in the open; I am a true blue feminist and I LOVE FASHION. I love the history of fashion. I love the politics of fashion. Most of all I love the marriage of . . .
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August 15, 2007 06:19 PM EDT --
It wasn’t really a whistle. Whistles are supposed to cut through the air - not hang in the ether and then drop to the ground. I wasn’t even sure if they heard me. I . . .
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January 12, 2007 09:37 PM EST --
Today I turn eighteen. Although I am the youngest in my family, composed of five girls no less, I have managed to be the first married and the first to produce a son (something my parents were unable . . .
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May 18, 2007 04:22 PM EDT --
I don’t know how it happened exactly, when I went from being a sensible middle of the road person of political persuasion to being absolutely obsessed with a particularly good looking Vice President . . .
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July 11, 2007 01:50 AM EDT --
Since John O had an article that listed books some of us despised. In lieu of being opposite, and before someone else grabs this idea, I thought it would be nice to present a list of books that I . . .
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October 31, 2006 03:24 PM EST --
Some people live in an enchanted world, I have long concluded that I do not and most likely never will. I'm a single mother of three children and I manage a state run nursing home in rural Kansas. . . .
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April 02, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
He wouldn't have done it, no he wouldn't have , except for the voice that drifted into the exercise room where he, their father, was doing twenty minutes on the treadmill. "Hello . . .
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July 19, 2006 04:08 PM EDT --
I am his mother, yet I barely know him. He was taken from me immediately after birth and was nursed by another. He is golden, my boy – the poetic definition of beauty. Most honor . . .
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July 05, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
Take it from me, you should think twice before you claim a body part is yours when you know damn well that it isn’t. About a week ago I lost a toe. It wasn’t a major toe, so it . . .
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