Patti Abbott has made another challenge to her pals: a drabble — a story of exactly one hundred words — inspired by one of three pictures. Succinct, yeah? Here’s mine. “Goin’ to the chapel…” The parson looked nervous. Bart smiled to reassure him, then nudged him along with the Berretta. Now it was his wedding…
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Flash Fiction Challenge: Zoo Story
Patti Abbott has challenged folks again on the topic of the zoo: here’s mine with apologies to Edward Albee and William Shakespeare and Bruce Robinson as well. So there. Zoo Story “So, this is the place.” “This? Why?” “I thought it would be dramatic.” “Dramatic? Why? Wolf howls make it dramatic?” “Not exactly. That scene…
Scarry Night: Miss Lonely Heart
This is a flash piece for a challenge put up by the ever resourceful Patti Abbott: for the rest of the entries pop on over to her blog. The link was the line “I really don’t mind the scars.” She seemed so small at the big table, a drink with the palest hint of green…
How I Came to Write this Book
I’m hosted over at Patti Abbott’s blog where I reveal: “How I Came To Write This Book” How I Came to Write this Book, K. A. Laity THE MANGROVE LEGACY Kit Marlowe, Tease Publishing, Dec 2010, ISBN 9781607671275, $5.99 In 2002, I moved to Houston, Texas with my husband. I hadn’t quite got around to…
Publications: Plea, Professor and Provocateur
I thought I would have Bend Sinister read by today so I could write it up for Friday’s Forgotten Books (maybe I will later today), but at present I don’t and somehow I have decided that today is finally “Send out Queries for the Non-Fiction Project” Day, so there’s that. In case you missed it,…
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Puckoon
Spike Milligan’s Puckoon Once again this is a “forgotten” book only in the States; Spike Milligan is an icon for many in Britain and Ireland (not to mention the rest of the world). My Penguin copy actually has a note on the back cover, “For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the…
Bits and Bobs
Over at Patti Abbott’s blog, you can read the final installment of La Ronde, the round robin story in which I took part. The fun of these things is that they take a lot of unexpected twists and that’s certainly the case here. Vastly entertaining. Perhaps the strangest news story regarding wombats ever… It’s possible…
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Kleinzeit
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=magicwombat-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=0747556415http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=magicwombat-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=0253212340http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=magicwombat-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=0060838000 I find it amazing that Russell Hoban’s singular book Kleinzeit seems to be out of print in the US. Amazon lists the version on the left as the most recent one (2002) but he doesn’t seem to have the same popularity here as he does in Britain (where the Pennsylvania-born writer lives, no surprise)….
Purposeful
I started out the day purposefully: I got a needed oil change, ran to the store and then came to campus. There things began to bog down a bit, not only because there was a lot of email to get to and a call from the Dean but then there was the printer not working….
World AIDS Day
There’s a campaign on to have an AIDS-free generation born by 2015. A lot of work to be done first. It can be done. Commemorate World AIDS Day with something meaningful. These cool Dia de los Muertos t-shirts already sold out but there are many other ways to help raise awareness and help research. I’m…
K. A. Laity 