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- December 25th, 2009
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kathleenmaher has posted a new entry on: Diary of a Heretic
Gender Bending in the Land of Oz
This perennial favorite on my blog dates back to the beginning: late 2006. At first, I thought the term “Gender Bending” must be out-moded. But it’s not. Comics, graphic novels, anime, manga—g…
- December 23rd, 2009
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To Everyone Everywhere
To Everyone Everywhere: I'm wishing you GLAD TIDINGS and PEACE ON EARTH. (If need be, we will strive for peace throughout the universe after we've achieved it here.)
- December 21st, 2009
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Sabrina Who Always Believed
The ever-changing light, time, and temperature enthralled Sabrina. She marveled at the vibrancy of everything alive and wondered at the imperceptible emanations of everything inert. It astonished her…
- December 18th, 2009
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Flayed Alive (again)
My original post called “Flayed Alive” is almost as consistently popular as the pictures from “The Land of Oz,” by L. Frank Baum, which will show up here soon. How do people find “Flayed Ali…
- December 16th, 2009
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Justifying My Existence (again)
From my lost novel, “Diary of a Heretic,” a writing prompt: For years I adhered to the idea that if I lived spartanly and maintained hope, a day would come when I would metaphorically if not actua…
- December 15th, 2009
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kathleenmaher has added Walk Talk Tours Blog to her favorite blogs.
Walk Talk Tours Blog
Award winning blog exploring some of the milestones and quirky events in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Chester and York. Go walk about in these cities with your own audio downloadable travel guide. Take a Walk Talk Tour for a green and flexible app -
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Guaranteed Happiness (again)
Here’s Diary of a Heretic’s all time readers’ favorite: My family called me, “Pris,” which I hated. It bothered me until I was thirteen and Felicity sauntered into our humdrum classroom, aft…
- December 13th, 2009
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Fiction Interrupted Again
Here’s an illustration of The Crosby Street Hotel’s lobby in New York City that’s remarkably similar to the fictional Crosby Street Hotel where Matthew King and his agent Jeffery are staying. Af…
- December 12th, 2009
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kathleenmaher has added
austinsgirl to her friends list. - December 11th, 2009
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Temporary Lover
Tara’s pleasure in getting the better of Matthew King—leaving him to contend with her gaga mama, refusing to take his note to Brooke, and pressuring him into the summer play—had nose-dived even…
- December 8th, 2009
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Heroin-Flavored Bananas
Alone with Matthew and his children, Brooke and Tara’s mother Connie acted like a flighty teenager compared to her splendidly capable daughters. She wore a billowy smock dress with puffed sleeves an…
- December 4th, 2009
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How to Audition
Cleaving a chubby, thrashing four-year-old girl to her chest, thirty-eight-year-old Connie Logan gazed at Matthew King in unabashed idolatry. She was telling him, between giggles, that most movie star…
- December 2nd, 2009
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Cannonball
By the time Matthew stood up, Brooke’s little black shoes were already disappearing into the water that rippled outward, glinting up from a shallow stillness. [Click here to read the first episode,…
- November 30th, 2009
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Overexposed
Matthew King had sent all the help away, privacy being the only security that mattered here. He arranged for their meals to arrive prepared, and he, Brooke, and Tara took turns serving and cleaning up…
- November 24th, 2009
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The Half Shell
Tara pushed Ivy in a bucket swing. Dexter swung from the hanging rings. Brooke in her French hat and Matthew in sopping wet jeans rose from the hillside. [Click here to read the first episode, or here…
- November 20th, 2009
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The Third Degree
Matthew King had won three Emmys playing a psychiatric pediatric intern who figured out kids’ secret, disabling torments and what to do about them. The show “Children’s Minds” was still number…
- November 19th, 2009
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Forget Me Nots
While Tara grinned at Matthew, recalling his movie dialogue, he observed that she was slightly bigger than Brooke with brown hair that was probably very blonde until recently. Her blue eyes were start…
- November 17th, 2009
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kathleenmaher has posted a new entry on: Diary of a Heretic Reviews & Memes
No Title
Just listened to a great jazz piano posted on Facebook by my friend Ira: Taylor Eigsti. Got myself a Taylor Eigsti Channel on Pandora now.
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Le Chapeau d\'Été
Brooke had phoned Tara before noon and said, “Come right now. I’ll meet you at the turn-off.” The path between Matthew King’s property and the highway was half a mile long and wide enough for…
- November 14th, 2009
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kathleenmaher has updated her friends list.
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kathleenmaher has added letter from an unknown to her favorite blogs.
letter from an unknown
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- November 13th, 2009
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Better to Die than Try
After Brooke’s unspoken, stifling, six-month love affair with the senior from Boiceville (whose name shall never be mentioned), she regarded sex as the ultimate danger. Other risks only went so far…
- November 12th, 2009
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kathleenmaher has posted a new blog review on: Billion Dollar Baloney
- November 11th, 2009
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kathleenmaher has added A Writer's Edge to her favorite blogs.
A Writer's Edge
A writer's journal of English words, writing and books -- with a tech touch. Writing/Editing/Ghostwriting -
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Double the Fun
In the gallery’s workroom Tara was stringing metallic beads for a complicated necklace her mother had designed and wondering if Brooke ever realized how connected they were. Not just as sisters. But…
- November 7th, 2009
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kathleenmaher has posted a new blog review on: Publish Or Perish
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kathleenmaher has added Publish Or Perish to her favorite blogs.
Publish Or Perish
In which one of those millions of writers who wants to get his first novel published talks about the trials and tribulations of trying to get published. And about any other stuff that happens to come to mind. -
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kathleenmaher has posted a new blog review on: King Al's Thoughts of the Day
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King Al's Thoughts of the Day
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kathleenmaher has posted a new blog review on: Writing and Art
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kathleenmaher has added Writing and Art to her favorite blogs.
Writing and Art
Poetry, watercolor/acrylic art work site access from Writing and Art -
kathleenmaher has posted a new blog review on: blowholes
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kathleenmaher has added blowholes to her favorite blogs.
blowholes
break the surface. windborne thoughts and rhymes. claim the air with me. - November 5th, 2009
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Fantasyland
Brooke hated that Tara had called out her ex-boyfriend in front of his friends. Because Brooke was the senior boy’s secret. And especially because, Brooke tried to explain, he had used her. Gotten b…
- November 2nd, 2009
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No Cold Fish
Brooke and their mother Connie overheard Tara on the phone. “I’m not going anywhere with you, Pop. Come over if you want. But you won’t change my mind.” “About what?” Connie asked when Tar…
- October 30th, 2009
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Never No More
Tara considered wearing a few little braids by her face. Jazz up her colorless hair that refused to grow long. But if she got into that—how she looked—she’d miss the bus. Halfway down the stairs…
- October 28th, 2009
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The Reason for Everything
Unaware of it, Tara gloated when Brooke staggered home only forty minutes after she left. The back door slammed off the kitchen wall. Tara was upstairs watching a documentary about a boy who videotape…
- October 26th, 2009
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Nobody Anywhere
Brooke rode her bicycle along this path every day, including weekends. Already after seven, the evening had started changing from gold to silver. Bright flecks glinted off random pebbles when she pedd…
- October 22nd, 2009
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Corn Chex or Wheat
Brooke, 15 about to turn 16, and Tara, 14 since May, disagreed on almost everything. But the evening before school opened, they agreed that people who compared them like breakfast cereals were so out…
- October 15th, 2009
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All in Love Is Fair
Markham’s Pub is perfect for this neighborhood. Since I’m the bartender, I know the regulars. Roger and Jackson arrive after work without fail, and again after dinner. Friends since grade school,…
- October 9th, 2009
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The Embezzlers' Club
John was a cash-only antique dealer in Chicago. Everything he sold had once belonged to the grand old rich, famous, and scandalous. His side business salvaged architectural remnants and sold them to c…
- October 2nd, 2009
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Boys To Men
From age seven until seventeen, I was responsible for my brother Ryland and his friend Rico. Being three years older seemed plenty at the time: girls are more mature than boys. Our mother traveled in…
