Ten writers will be added to the Cat Oars Fiction Collection literary project “A Charlie Taylor Christmas” this holiday season, and the winner of the competion wins $50 in cash from me….
Enter Here:
http://forums.houston.craigslist.org/?forumID=27
Contest Deadline is July 31st.
Here are the official rules, as posted in the craigslist.com literary and writing fourm:
By the end of July, post under the title “Another [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Sonshine
Posted in Blogroll, Three Springs PA, bible, humor, religion, sex, writing on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I took Dana Scott to the high school Christmas dance. She wore a foaming green dress and a heavy coat of peach lipstick. It made me wonder if she wanted to kiss with all that make-up on. Dana, a Christian girl, didn’t really want to suck-face with a guy until she was married, and that was fine with me because [...]
Oscar the Cat Predicts Death
Posted in Blogroll, death, humor, possession on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ published an article on a cat called Oscar that lives in a nursing home. CNN ran this story this evening. Oscar has the ability to know when old farts are about to pull their last finger in life. Oscar goes inside the room of those passing into the light, [...]
Informal Adoption
Posted in Blogroll, brooklyn, death, gay on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bradley’s step-father died on his birthday while we were in Puerto Rico. Bradley’s momma’s babies daddy passed away on what was supposed to be a relaxing day on vacation. I felt the vibes through the phone as the message was delivered via his Sprint cell phone in-box. He started to cry. I knew something bad [...]
My Mom, The Lady Slipper
Posted in Blogroll, Three Springs PA, gardening on July 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last spring I was writing about an orchid that grows in the woods behind my childhood home. Soon after hitting the last period with my index finger, the phone rang. It was my mom.
“Are the lady slippers out yet?” I asked her.
“Yes. I saw some last week.” she said.
Months later, I received this photograph in [...]
A turquoise afternoon sky that was sweetened with cotton candy clouds swirled in the heavens like sugar in a heated metal wheel at a carnival.
Down by the pond, just below the orchard, I reached to my feet and picked up a turtle. I looked for carvings on the bottom shell.
The hard, moist, yellowed slug [...]
