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Stinker

Once upon a time there was a lit­tle boy who had both a dog and a mon­ster. This boy spent his sum­mer days with the dog trav­el­ing out with him in the morn­ing and return­ing each after­noon in the hottest part of the day to cool in the shade of the back porch with the … 

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Posted bylaraJune 10, 2016Posted inStories2 Comments on Stinker

The Books of May

Reviews and mus­ings on: xo Orpheus, Best American Essays 2014, A Manual for Cleaning Women, On the Move, Murder on the Orient Express, and all of Harry Potter

Posted bylaraMay 31, 2016March 12, 2018Posted in#FridayReads, Books, reviews

A Ball of String

I think I was a cat for Halloween one year. I have a pic­ture of me in a leo­tard and tights with a con­struc­tion paper ears and a tail and my face paint­ed white with black whiskers.  It’s not much of a tail and I remem­ber being a lit­tle dis­ap­point­ed that I did­n’t have a … 

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Posted bylaraMay 6, 2016March 7, 2017Posted inwriting life

The Books of April

Reviews of: Mirror, Mirror; Fairy Tale Review, Mr. and Mrs. Dog, A Plague of Doves, Flash Non-Fiction, Zero History, Hat Full of Sky, and some Harry Potter. 

Posted bylaraMay 6, 2016March 12, 2018Posted in#FridayReads, Books, reviewsTags: dogs, fairy tales, harry potter

The Thing about Hallmark

Why is every­body so down on Hallmark? Aren’t we inar­tic­u­late enough with­out deny­ing us the chance to have some­one help us to speak?

Posted bylaraApril 21, 2016Posted inmiscellany, writing lifeTags: empathy, hallmark

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