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SONOMA WRITERS ALLIANCE: September 2014
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Writers of Fiction, Essay, Poetry and Memoir Live and Write in Sonoma, California. Sunday, September 28, 2014. My Grandpa - Dave Lewis. After the town had existed in its current incarnation for over one hundred years the Grant Street homes were no longer filled with wealthy people but a working class population where everybody that could work for pay did so, and often several jobs. The community continued the tradition of pride in clean, polished, entrance stairs even in rental houses. Riley’s fath...
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Writers of Fiction, Essay, Poetry and Memoir Live and Write in Sonoma, California. Friday, July 31, 2015. Lynette's Night Out -Meta Strauss. She waved at the bartender. He walked across the Paradise Bar and Grill to personally deliver her Appletini. Lynette considered him a friend. 8220;You know you’re welcome to sit at the bar where you could visit with all the regulars.” He set the drink down and smiled. 8220;Anyone meeting you? As Lynette sat in the dark corner she tried to remember how she felt when ...
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Writers of Fiction, Essay, Poetry and Memoir Live and Write in Sonoma, California. Monday, July 27, 2015. If You Say So - Lucille Hamilton. Fred took life as it came, so naturally, when he met and married Milly, he chose a woman who was uptight about everything, whereas Fred could happily spend his life watching dust grow. Milly, who had a low level of exasperation, would boss Fred around. He became so deaf to what she was saying to him that his habitual response was, "If you say so.". SMALL TOWN PARADOX...
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SONOMA WRITERS ALLIANCE: January 2015
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Writers of Fiction, Essay, Poetry and Memoir Live and Write in Sonoma, California. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Let's Pretend - Helen Rowntree. Thursday, January 22, 2015. The Job - Michael James. I took my time while she mopped up the blood on her legs, putting a few things in my back-pack, making sure I was provided for that night, which I expected to pass on the golf course nearby. Then I banged out of the apartment. Of course, people came looking for me but they didn’t find me. Well, long story short,...
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SONOMA WRITERS ALLIANCE: August 2014
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Writers of Fiction, Essay, Poetry and Memoir Live and Write in Sonoma, California. Tuesday, August 26, 2014. An Adventure. Michael James. The ocean liner Niew Amsterdam. Flagship of the Holland-America line, came off the weighs in the shipyard in Rotterdam in 1937 and displaced 36,000 tons. The ship undertook sea trials in the North Sea, passing with flying colors, surprising all concerned by its performance. It was clearly going to be competing with the best, England’s Queen Mary. Boarding was orderly a...
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SONOMA WRITERS ALLIANCE: December 2014
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Writers of Fiction, Essay, Poetry and Memoir Live and Write in Sonoma, California. Saturday, December 20, 2014. A Gift at Christmas Robyn. She replied that the children were helping their father out in the barn as they were preparing to slaughter a chicken for their family holiday meal. It was not a turkey, she said apologetically, but she was expert in making meals stretch to the best of their resources, and no one went hungry in her home. Could she sign for him? Monday, December 15, 2014. 8220;Yes....
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SONOMA WRITERS ALLIANCE: July 2014
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Writers of Fiction, Essay, Poetry and Memoir Live and Write in Sonoma, California. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Figures lie splayed in some careless space. You peer through, sometimes centered on the page. Or haphazard, stuck askew, and tucked with tape—. A beat, a blink, a tilt, a pulse, a phase. Knives of light and spilled shadows haunt. Each frozen plane. Angled borders frame. Lifeless lines. With every click, your wide eyes. Fixed beneath your shroud of glossy sheen. Thursday, July 24, 2014. With tattoo...
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Writers of Fiction, Essay, Poetry and Memoir Live and Write in Sonoma, California. Sunday, August 16, 2015. TIPTOEING BETWEEN IMPENDING CASUALTIES. ABOUT TO HAPPEN –. By Joan R. Brady August 2015. Long ago the high wire act was. Abandoned, but have moved through. Many climates, so know all layers possible. Can always burrow or stay. Quiet in light of current ledge,. However, wind is preferred. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). About Sonoma Writers Alliance. View my complete profile.
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Writers of Fiction, Essay, Poetry and Memoir Live and Write in Sonoma, California. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. By John Field 2015. Hello out there, hello. This is the way it is,. Undamaged by night another morning arrives. The moment we open our eyes,. A miracle touching us as nothing else will. Until the same thing happens again tomorrow. Think what we like about the pain in our knees,. The checks that bounced. And our best friend dead (the other one too). Believe me, my friends, the luckiest thing. About ...
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SONOMA WRITERS ALLIANCE: June 2014
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Writers of Fiction, Essay, Poetry and Memoir Live and Write in Sonoma, California. Monday, June 30, 2014. I jumped up and down on the front seat of my dad’s car as he pulled into the gravel parking lot of the small amusement park near our home. My eyes grew wide with excitement. 8220;Hi little lady. You want a balloon, don’t you? 8221; The balloon man smiled at me. I want one. Pleeeeease! My hand lost its grip and I watched my treasure go up, up and away. “Get it, get it! 8221; I screamed. But it ros...