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Tales of Extraordinary Ordinariness

http://suzyhayze.blogspot.com

Musings about things sociological and fantastic, ordinary,writerly and mostly strange....

Added on: Sep 5th, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Suzy
Listed in: Fiction Society
Tags: teaching Identity writing publishing sociology dark fiction

Recent Posts

Slow

Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 14:38

I talk fast. I walk fast (for a short girl), I type fast, I think fast.BUT I like things slow. Not slow from beginning to end... but slow to start... a lingering twinkle of beginning. I like cured black olives even though I don't like them.I like ...
Want to hold my hand?

Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 17:48 in children, love, moments, memories

It was so simple. Most right things are. The key to my secret peace.I was a tight fist of lonesome and tyrant of rage. A small little girl with tangled hair and balled up hands. I can remember my fingernails cutting my palms. The nail biting hab...
The literary agent song

Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 08:47 in literary agent song

Okay. I'm NO songwriter... but I've always liked to play around with lyrics. I switch words up in songs all the time (makes my kids crazy...."twinkle twinkle little bat...")I'm a lurker on many agent blogs, and recently there was a big bruhaaahaaaa...
In the gray area where the pictures become words

Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 08:11 in blogging, writing, bloggy love

I didn't win NaNo... but I sure did step in it.I'm in deep now with my new novel. The story came in glimpses.... and as I wrote the pictures forced themselves out of me from behind my eyes. The words crawl... forming the story, fully realized and a...
Dear Susan

Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 10:28 in memories, memorial

I drove up to your house on a cold winter evening. I thought twice before I knocked on the door because I'd already screwed everything up and I hadn't even met you yet.My references were bad. I was late. It wasn't a great way to introduce myself.B...
Solitude after Fifty Two Years

Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 09:43 in kids, love, thanksgiving, loss

(*My very own picture of my very own kids and my very own porch on my very own house. So... copyright Me 2010. Right?)He stood on the porch, across the street, just staring into the day.I was alive with activity. My girls helped me clean out the car...