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Oktober Sky: July 2016

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Thursday, July 14, 2016. July Comes Early. Grumpy Thoughts on Summer. Something about summer always seems to take me by surprise. I'm not one of those sun-loving people that looks forward to the season. I don't dream about planting my garden all year, I don't enjoy weddings, baby showers, bug-infested night-time concerts or park-shelter picnics, and I don't ever have enough money to go to the ocean. I. The couple of years I spent summer babysitting my oldest sister's kids while my little sister became po...

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Oktober Sky: May 2015

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Sunday, May 24, 2015. If you want to get your share of writing rejections, the true sign of a persistent writer. This month, I submitted a short (1600-ish words) piece of fiction to a nice lit mag. I'm determined to keep working on the edit of my first novel, The Fall, and Further Fall, of Miriam Bronski- but also to submit some of the other work that I have been finishing and polishing, that is piling up all over my hard drive. Especially as Bronski is going to be a long haul. Because why the hell not?

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Oktober Sky: June 2014

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Monday, June 2, 2014. Bradbury's 52- the beginning. This week I began an adventure- writing a short story (with a given prompt as a starting point) each week for 52 weeks in a row. It came about through Ray Bradbury's suggestion to new writers that no one is capable of writing 52 bad stories in a row- so if you write one per week, you're bound to get something good eventually. I'll likely post the stories here, with the prompts at the end. Labels: fiction. short stories. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Oktober Sky: October 2016

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Monday, October 24, 2016. On Becoming My Grandmother. This morning when I woke up and caught sight of myself in the bathroom mirror, for a second I looked just like my grandmother. Not Gram when she was 20, in that pretty photo everyone always says I looked just like, but Gram from when I was a kid, when she was old. To be fair, when I was very little, and my uncle dumped my poor Gram on us because his wife was a stone cold bitch (She was; sorry Uncle Dex! Sunday, October 23, 2016. An hour ago, I finishe...

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Oktober Sky

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Sunday, May 1, 2016. May 1, 2016. He was as baffled as I was, I'm sure. I'd never seen a skirmish like this between the birds of the neighborhood. Sure, if there was food in the street (a rare happening, as we have regular weekly street cleaners here in my suburban village) there might be a couple of birds that tried to steal it from each other, though never as violently. But there was no dropped food or any other obvious cause for the conflict I witnessed. I hoped it wouldn't come to that. I am an anima...

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Oktober Sky: The LipGloss Made me Do It.

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Sunday, October 23, 2016. The LipGloss Made me Do It. Did you ever find yourself searching out blatantly nostalgic items from your childhood, for no apparent reason? Of course there's a reason, but it's not obvious at first. Or not obvious enough. See, this whole episode came to my mind, clear and full, when the Pin of that fried egg lip compact flashed onto my computer screen. I saw that someone was selling one on eBay for some large amount, and I almost bought it, just to have it back. There are so man...

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Oktober Sky: On Becoming My Grandmother

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Monday, October 24, 2016. On Becoming My Grandmother. This morning when I woke up and caught sight of myself in the bathroom mirror, for a second I looked just like my grandmother. Not Gram when she was 20, in that pretty photo everyone always says I looked just like, but Gram from when I was a kid, when she was old. To be fair, when I was very little, and my uncle dumped my poor Gram on us because his wife was a stone cold bitch (She was; sorry Uncle Dex! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am an anim...

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Oktober Sky: Well into Oktober... A Belated Month of Writing Begins

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Friday, October 21, 2016. Well into Oktober. A Belated Month of Writing Begins. I have decided I will do NaNoWriMo after all this year, so this prep month of writing is necessary. I shall simply take my notebook writing practice, ala Natalie Goldberg's system from Wild Mind, and begin it fresh here. You've been warned! Dough and Do Nots. Years later, she now makes the same cake with whole raw almonds, as I did way back when. Validation! Hell, I never even follow a recipe or use measurements for some thin...

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Oktober Sky: July Comes Early... Grumpy Thoughts on Summer.

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Thursday, July 14, 2016. July Comes Early. Grumpy Thoughts on Summer. Something about summer always seems to take me by surprise. I'm not one of those sun-loving people that looks forward to the season. I don't dream about planting my garden all year, I don't enjoy weddings, baby showers, bug-infested night-time concerts or park-shelter picnics, and I don't ever have enough money to go to the ocean. I. The couple of years I spent summer babysitting my oldest sister's kids while my little sister became po...

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Oktober Sky: February 2014

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Monday, February 10, 2014. FAWM-a-licious things to think about. It is once again February Album Writing Month, a challenge I have been unable to resist since the moment I came across a link to www.fawm.org. The January after my first NaNoWriMo- or www.nanowrimo.org. As this is my blog, my own personal ongoing writing experiment, I though I'd jump in late and use this space to throw out ideas, titles for, and snippets of songs-in-progress. I keep my various personalities there, on display, year round.