Tag: short
group name: fansoflydia
|
May 28, 2008 02:15 PM EDT --
Yes, it's an event named after the single supercontinent Pangæa that existed 250 million years ago, before people were even around, but it's very much about us, today. It's the dream of . . . more
|
|
December 24, 2007 02:34 PM EST --
Some years ago, some people thought some thoughts aboutgravity. Some of those people thought thoughts that could be expressedprecisely. I've heard the names of some of those people. You probably have . . . more
|
|
June 06, 2007 06:11 PM EDT --
As I slip the Oxycontin tablet into the left pocket of my scrubs, I take an Excedrin tablet from my right pocket and place it in the little white medicine cup along with Mr. Mason's blood pressure . . . more
|
|
May 27, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
(fiction) CRITIQUE WANTED
(This was the first thing I published on Gather, many moons ago. It's unlikely anyone around today remembers it. It was removed and published elsewhere, but it . . . more
|
|
May 11, 2007 02:58 PM EDT --
I don’t expect him to understand. Why should he understand when no one else ever has? He scoffs, “It’s 89 degrees and you are dressed like it is 30 below!” What . . . more
|
|
September 19, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
It was a last minute decision - a sunny afternoon, a bead convention on the other side of the city, and a new passion to create jewelry. Two and a half hours later I get into my car and notice the . . . more
|
|
May 15, 2007 08:47 PM EDT --
Do you have an article in want of comments? Is it a poem of some length? Perhaps you penned a recipe with no exotic ingredients? How about a book review on a book no one will ever read . . . more
|
|
November 04, 2007 02:39 PM EST --
I had occasion to be absent from my computer for a couple of days a little more than a week ago. When I logged backin on Oct 24th. I noticed a lack of gather email notices in my yahoo account. The last . . . more
|
|
September 14, 2007 07:43 PM EDT --
Holy Golightly, where have some of my articles disappeared to? What great insult did some of them create that caused them to disappear if viewed by a reader not signed in? Such villainy was . . . more
|
|
August 12, 2007 10:17 PM EDT --
I have finally gotten the call I have been expecting. Mercifully, it was to the point, “We are not renewing your contract.”
Of course, I would be lying if I did not confess that . . . more
|
|
July 05, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
Take it from me, you should think twice before you claim a body part is yours when you know damn well that it isn’t. About a week ago I lost a toe. It wasn’t a major toe, so it . . . more
|
|
August 20, 2007 06:55 PM EDT --
May 29, 1907, this is the last will and testament of Cynthia Jean Kavanagh currently of Maxville, Louisiana. By the grace of God, I am able to compose, but I do not know for how long.
. . . more
|
|
July 16, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
While camping this weekend in the wilds of Mark Twain Lake, Missouri, my husband quietly disappeared into the camper, turned on the air conditioner and took a nap.
I was left at loose ends. I read . . . more
|
|
October 26, 2007 06:28 PM EDT --
The ticket agent looks particularly nasty. I don’t want to approach her, but I have no choice. Charlotte Maggie May can’t sit on anyone’s lap except for mine and she . . . more
|
|
November 16, 2007 05:43 PM EST --
Not everyone can claim a Thanksgiving tromping through a forest of turning leaves off to grandmother’s house. Most of us are stuck eating dinners in confined spaces on paper tablecloths . . . more
|
|
July 05, 2007 09:19 PM EDT --
A lot has happened since we last spoke. To start off, you may already be aware that my toe saga was featured on ’60 Minutes.’ I was surprised to find how so many were moved to hear . . . more
|
|
March 03, 2008 01:44 AM EST --
Saturday, Grandma and I went up to Topeka, for our bi-monthly shop and flop. We always hit Big Lots, and Sam's Club, Sometimes the thrifts, but it neccesitates leaving the Budster at home, alone. He's . . . more
|
|
October 30, 2007 05:10 PM EDT --
Normally I don’t like to fess up to much, this being the Internet and all . The fact is I don’t really know you people and by stating I vote this way or I worship that way, doesn’t . . . more
|
|
May 23, 2007 04:22 PM EDT --
It is four o’clock in the morning and I don’t really think about answering the phone, I just do it as if I’m swatting a giant fly from my face. I hear my mother’s weak voice . . . more
|
|
August 28, 2007 08:21 PM EDT --
The boy was in shock and past pain; if he didn’t receive medical help soon he would be dead. Korfa had driven as far as he could, in the direction opposite of where his enemies would have predicted, . . . more
|
|
|
|
