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Bike Riding in the Big Easy
My Xootr Swift folding bike on the bike route over Interstate 10 in New Orleans. Downtown and the Superdome are in the background. We had a trip to New Orleans planned for Tulane Graduation. Lee...
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A Month of Short Stories 2014, Day 3 – Regret
A year ago, for the month of June, I wrote about an online short story each day for the month. It seemed like a good idea at the time. My blog readership fell precipitously and nobody seemed to give a...
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On the Bayou
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh Son of a gun we’ll have big fun on the bayou Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and...
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New Orleans Writing Marathon Day Two, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 One snippet of what I wrote that day. The first time Jambalaya Joe cooked for us he made – of course – jambalaya. A great black cast iron...
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Eating Barbequed Iguana
I’m on a mexican radio I wish I was in Tiajuana Eating barbequed iguana I’d take requests on the telephone I’m on a wavelength far from home I feel a hot wind on my shoulder I dial it in from south of...
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No One Had Responded To Its Message
“On the prow of the wagon, in an attempt to attract business among the Quarterites, Ignatius taped a sheet of Big Chief paper on which he had printed in crayon: TWELVE INCHES (12) OF PARADISE. So far...
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Not Cleveland
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” ― Tennessee Williams New Orleans, Louisiana View out of my son’s apartment window, New Orleans.
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Bullfighting Is the Only Art In Which the Artist Is In Danger Of Death
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor. —-Ernest Hemingway Running of the Bulls,...
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Short Story of the Day, Regret, by Kate Chopin
Mamzelle Aurlie certainly did not pretend or aspire to such subtle and far-reaching knowledge on the subject as Aunt Ruby possessed, who had “raised five an’ buried six” in her day. She was glad enough...
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Short Story Of the Day (flash piece), Gator Call by Bill Chance
“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most...
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