Goddesses and Doormats

That Guy

2008-02-03T06:41:54Z

I try to imagine you as the guy who looks at me and thinks I’m stunning, who can’t help brushing the hair from my face just to have an excuse to touch me. The guy who puts his arms around me not because he’s trying to get in my pants but to comfo...

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QotD: World's Best Beer

2007-09-20T21:39:00Z

What is the best beer on planet Earth? Submitted by Remmy Van Hornie. I'm not an expert but I don't think there is an answer to this. This is like asking what is your favorite food. Nope sorry. Can't do it. It depends on my mood. It always dep...

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Sleep Over

2007-09-17T20:39:56Z

(This is the abbreviated version I read at Chi Chi's Word Parlor 9/18/07 -- the theme was "Desire.") For days later, she could still smell him on her sheets…and she couldn’t bring herself to wash that red tank. He always made her come to him. An...

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The Scarf

2007-08-17T23:31:28Z

There's an old knitter's superstition that you're not supposed to knit for a boyfriend, only a husband, or it will end the relationship. She was never quite sure whether she did it in defiance of superstition or to tempt fate. She had thought a...

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Fiction and Memoir

2007-08-15T16:36:25Z

I recently finished a writing class that explored the relationship of memoir to fiction, proceeding from the proposition that there is no purely fictional story, and there is no absolutely truthful memoir. Not to over-generalize, but I think th...

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Upon a second viewing of "Becoming Jane"

2007-08-13T22:17:12Z

I first saw Becoming Jane about a week ago with my very talented and intelligent, if somewhat persnickety, theater-trained actor friend Michael. I was, I must admit, largely disappointed, having read the excellent and exhaustively researched 2003...

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