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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May 29, 2006 08:34 AM EDT --
I hate my family. I hate their noise. I hate their false generosity. Most of all I hate the way their beady eyes stare when waiting to see if I still have the strength to blow . . .
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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 29, 2006 06:54 PM EDT --
New York – circa 1977. There are moments in history that act as postcards from one era to another - 'I wish you were here.' Nothing major happens: no colossal wars that redefine . . .
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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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December 05, 2006 08:47 PM EST --
‘ The Thief Taker’ by Janet Gleeson is a murder mystery set in London circa 1750. The heroine, Agnes, is a cook for a middleclass family of trade. The Blanchards, the . . .
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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 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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November 23, 2009 05:20 PM EST --
Monday is the saddest day of the week, no doubt. It is positively the worst day to say goodbye to a trusted and true friend. Yet, what is one to do? Sometimes a companion cannot be . . .
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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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July 27, 2006 06:18 PM EDT --
Though it was long ago and I very young, I can remember the incident with clarity. I was awakened from a dream by the light. It was not the first time I had seen it nor would it be the last. . . .
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September 16, 2006 03:52 PM EDT --
I really, really, really , wanted to like this film. I suppose if it made a lick of sense I would have, but it doesn't, and I don't.
The 1949 film noir atmosphere sets . . .
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