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pullback
what makes the green grass grow ‘Soldiers, what makes the green grass grow?’‘Blood, blood, blood, Drill Sergeant!’ – popular US Army training chant before deployment to Iraq cut grass, cut the sentiment. but bug-eyed faces poke glaring from between upended earth dolls left buried by the kids that used to live here but have since…
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turning to white
back. in. alice. how many posts have i started like that? i keep leaving this town and coming back to it in various states of delight and deflation. after the rollercoaster of festivals where i waved around copies of The Diamond Anchor and smiled hopefully at potential readers, it’s time to strap myself back into…
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emergers
It has taken me a week to blog about it, but the Emerging Writers Festival was great, again. For those who haven’t been, it’s like a small regional festival, as it focuses on “professional development.” most of those attending are emerging or aspiring writers and/or small press publishers, and so the conversations tend to be…
