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Long Story Short August Newsletter Sent Sunday, August 7, 2011
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hi Writing Friends!
 Long Story Short Newsletter
Dog Days of Summer!
 
 
 
     August, 2011 - Issue 98

 
 Editors Corner
Linda Barnett-Johnson - Hello reading and writing friends. I am back from three weeks in California, and it was HOT. Yes, and I mean HOT! We had four days of 100-degree weather, and I am not a friend of the heat. I did have a good visit with my sisters and brother. I went to California for the spreading of my oldest sisters' ashes, but didn't go because it was way too hot for me. She wanted her ashes spread in Pioneer Town in the desert. We used to live in Yucca Valley, and she worked at the Red Dog Saloon some years ago. She loved it and had a good time with friends and family. It was also my brother's 70th birthday. We celebrated with family on the 4th of July. I am happy to be back in Montana and doing the work I love, which is editing and working with writers. Have a nice summer.
 

Denise Cassino - We've had an incredibly wet summer - our bushes are berry laden and our grasses are chest high!  On the negative side, our days are cut short with rain by 3pm every day, so I'm longing for a little dry out. My puppy, Piper, loves splashing in the puddles, so she's a happy dog!

Amy S. Pacini -  August is a fun and relaxing month to sit back and enjoy summer's natural splendor. I find that poetry awakens all of the senses wherever you traverse outdoors. I love to feel the billowing breeze on my sun glistening skin while watching hawks and eagles soar across the azure skies, fluttering butterflies spread their colorful wings, squirrels, rabbits, and deer scamper into their verdant woodland retreat. I am surrounded by the serene sounds of chirping birds, buzzing bees, rustling trees, and gentle rain. The sweet scents of blossoming flowers and trees, garden fruits and vegetables, and freshly mowed grass permeate the balmy air. Some of our most famous poets often wrote about nature including Dickinson, Frost, Thoreau, Whitman, and Wordsworth. Wherever your scenic path takes you, may your poetic heart be filled with the jubilant song, wondrous warmth and breathtaking beauty of summer.
 
 

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Grizzly Gus - a Common Sense Advice Column

Dear Grizzly,

LateIy I am very concerned about my husband.  Dennis has definitely become depressed, detached, despondent, and generally disenchanted.  When I've tried to talk to him he is in denial and becomes defensive.  Could he be going through a mid-life crisis?  Is there anything I can do to help him get through this and save our marriage? 

Signed:  Denise disenfranchised in Des Moines, Iowa  

 

Dear Dis'ed Denise:   

Dennis sounds like he's dealing with a disproportionate degree of D's in his life.  Whether or not he is in mid-life crisis would depend on his age.  If he's old then he is senile, and if he is young then he is a jerk.  If he is middle-aged you need not be concerned, every man goes through this crisis to some degree.  When you should be concerned is when Dennis quits his job and runs off with a younger woman.  Otherwise Dennis might just blow the kids college fund on a sports car and drive around town until he meets a younger woman and then leaves you.  I suggest you help him find a non-destructive hobby that he can pour his passion into and better yet make it something you both can share.    

Signed:  Grizzly 'fair to middling' Gus

  

 

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STORY OF THE MONTH
The Redraft by Ben Watkins
 
A SERIAL STORY
Mavis Lamb Needs Geologist for Oregon Gold Mine by Ann Cassin 
Part 3 of 4
 
FLASH FICTION
Art of Cooking by S. Kumar 
Renovation by Anitha Murthy
The Table by Julie Smith
Cruising by Robbie Kenyon
The Blue Spruce by Martin Lindauer
The Red Dress by Barbara C. Stephens
A Sunny Afternoon by Sheri Marion
Riverie by Irena Pasvinter
 
MICRO FICTION
But is it Art? by Peter Caunt
Art is Life: Compression by Uzodinma Okehi
 
 
NON-FICTION
So, Who's Bill Reynolds? by (Ms.) Harol Marshall
The Whiz-a-Ma-Bob by Floriana Hall
 Let Tom Swift Inform Your Writing by Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Blood on the Scarecrow by Andrew J. Stone
 
POET'S CORNER by Russell Bittner  
Interview with  Shoshauna Shy
 
POEM OF THE MONTH 
Boy Running In The Rain . . . by T. Wignesan
 
POETRY
August Thoughts by Floriana Hall
Seasonal by Holly Day
Today At Ho'okipa by Cathy Quaglia
Youth by Sebastian Lopez
A Lesson In French by Jefferson Hunt
The Stones That Sleep by BRASH
Like Waiting By The Telephone by Bill Roberts
Young Boys, Older Boys by Gilda A. Herrera
So Aunt Elsie Says by Debbie Hilbish
Without Poetry by Francis Hart
A Napse In Time by Jad Sheikali
Shakespearean Baseball Sonnet #76 by Michael Ceraolo
Kentucky Blue by Michael Lee Johnson
Goddess Of The Sea by Cathy Quaglia
The Purple Garden by Joanna M. Weston
Hummingbirds And Butterflies by Floriana Hall
Weekend In The Woods by Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Summer's End by Patricia Crandall
Rear View Mirror by Rosemary Biggio
 
WRITING GOURMET
Check out the latest on Gourmet Food by Food Writer,
Cal Orey
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Check out the fab new books being released!

Spanish Mountain Life is a jewel-like memoir by noted herbalist and traveler Juliette de Bairacli Levy details her personal struggle against typhus fever, during which she gave birth to her second child, Luz, who had to be suckled by a nanny goat. As ever we are embraced by Juliette's love of nature and animals, and welcomed onlookers as she relates with people whose lives are far different from ours.





Film Stars! Dancing! Popcorn! At last, a life story with everything but the movie stuff edited out. CONFESSIONS OF A MOVIE ADDICT  chronicles a love affair with film from the 1930s through the beginning of the new millennium. In addition to revealing personal movie-related experiences, film critic Betty Jo Tucker  describes encounters with such veteran actors as Mickey Rooney and  Charlton Heston, as well as with current stars like Angelina Jolie, Billy Crudup, Guy Pearce,  and Brendan Fraser.




by Brie Liberty

A fourteen year old boy named Ricky finds himself caught in a parallel universe. He travels to another dimension and is met by an unusual group of men who offer him a mission. The mission is to help a boy in his school who is being bullied. Ricky accepts the mission but later realizes it's not so easy and that knowing these men can complicate his life. He must learn to live with this unique experience while also learning how to be a true friend to someone in need. Available August 28.




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