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Missed it by THAT much.
Last week I had hellish sleep deprivation due to serious financial stress and missed the official deadline; this week was no better, but I thought I'd have time to write something for Second Chance Idol.
I got home half an hour too late.
No need to hurry, indeed.
Feh on me.
We'll see about Home Game-ing it. -
LJ Idol Exhibit A - Week 1 - Am I Crazy?
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LJ Idol Exhibit A - Week 0 - Introduction.
It's regalia.
It's outerwear.
It's mufti.
It's worn in addition to my regular apparel, but it's not everyday clothing, not by a long shot. It can be festive, or solemn, as the season dictates.
I refer, of course, to the construct known as n-maranda-coy that I don when taking on the periodic challenge known as therealljidol. It's a sidestep from my workaday ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Exhibit A.
I'm stealing through the garden of your dreams.
I wander across your retinas like mist or smoke.
It's time to write again for LJ Idol, and this is my declaration of intent. -
Beetlejuice ablaze.
"A horror story with nothing supernatural in it"...
That's what joeymichaels called my "Making Fire" run-off piece written for LJ Idol a few seasons ago. It was a tale set in 1990, told from the point-of-view of an overworked wife angry at her [perceived-to-be] lazy husband. Her exhaustion sets the stage for a terrible accident. Very little happens in the ( Read more... ) -
Bowing out of LJ Idol, probably for the last time.
My head is really not in the game this year. I'm not happy with most of what I've written this season; last season I had the structure of most of my pieces as an exercise in exorcism of old ghosts, whether in first-person confessionals or third-person fiction ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 8, Week 10 - Sticks and Stones.
Bits of rock, broken down into fragments fit for gravel. Mixed with sand, an even finer winnowing down of rock, to become cement for the roads I walk and the paths I dream along ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 8, Week 9 - Counterintuitive.
It happens every time.
Every.
Damned.
Time.This time, it was the phone that sent me back to square one ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 8, Week 8 - A Traveling Travesty.
There's a greeting card with art by James C. Christensen that hangs over my desk. It is called "Boat in the Forest".
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LJ Idol, Season 8, Week 7 - Bupkis.
It has a year since I posted this entry about my Decembered grief.
Time has moved along, for good and ill.
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* I place a single candle in the bookstore window, next to the light-up box, whose caption reads, "Bring Joy, Give Books!" this month.
* I smile at the urgency of my ( Read more... )