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To the Man Passing London Zoo’s Blackburn Pavilion Clock at 12:30 p.m.
Like a hummingbird
pinned to a fencepost, freed
of its Whirling Dervish world… <<read more>>
Note: London Zoo’s Blackburn Pavilion houses hundreds of bird species and includes the largest collection of hummingbirds in the U.K. The clock at its entrance springs into mechanical life, complete with chirping birds, every half hour.
London Zoo’s press team thought the poem was “fantastic” and tweeted about it on their Twitter page: https://twitter.com/#!/zsllondonzoo.
If you visit Every Day Poets, please vote – the star you click gives the poem a 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, or 5-star rating.
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Whether you want super-shorts or love, horror or personal stories, or a mix of them all, there’s something for you at the Natalie McNabb Amazon Author Page. Check it out, if ya wanna…
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
W. W. Norton and Company
Paperback: $11.13
Kindle Edition: $8.99
Love Notes: A Collection of Romantic Poetry
Vagabondage Press
Paperback: $14.95
Kindle Edition: $3.82
Frightmares: A Fistful of Flash Fiction Horror
Dark Moon Books
Paperback: $14.95
Silent Embrace: Perspectives on Birth and Adoption
Catalyst Book Press
Paperback: $12.48
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Two new pieces, just in time for Valentine’s Day–
and
–in Love Notes, A Collection of Romantic Poetry
“Love shared, love in secret, celebrated, exploded…Love Notes has it all…” ~ Vagabondage Press
P.S. – As you inspire me in so many other things, you are the inspiration for these. I like you lots–not as in parking lots or casting lots, but as in lots and lots, as in bunches. Happy Valentine’s Day, luv. (Everyone else - As you probably guessed, P.S. does not stand for postscript here, and you can barf now.) ~ N
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out in Six Minute Magazine, Winter 2012 edition
This one was inspired by a guy and his dog near some Oregon dunes, as was “View from a ’77 Chevy Scottsdale” (in Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, W. W. Norton and Company).
Six Minute Magazine is ”a print and electronic magazine…[containing] quality fiction that can be read in under six minutes.”
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Say it will be so…
Despite slashes to arts funding and a rapidly changing publishing industry, an email this morning relit my hope for fiction writers. According to American Short Fiction:
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:13:19 -0500
To: me
From: them
Subject: Writers are the next rock gods
…Maybe you’re OK with a world where there’s a widening disconnection from art and people feel powerless to stop that. We’re not. We don’t want to talk about whether fiction is dying, we want to show you how deeply it’s thriving…
Sincerely,
The Editors
I believe! And, I want to shout it to the world, as you can see. I promise to work on the outfit before I hit a stage anywhere though. Until then, pay American Short Fiction a visit. They really are pretty awesome.
Three cheers for the future rock gods–writers!
~ N
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“Author Insides” Interview
A snippet from the interview–
“I…have probably saved a ridiculous amount on therapy because I write. It’s very freeing—I can floor it the wrong way on the freeway, say good riddance to people I’d like to, or cut a finger off, and it’s all harmless. As well, though, I have found compassion for others I might not have understood if I hadn’t examined a character as deeply as you must to be able to slip into their skin.”
~ N on the Vagabondage Press Blog
Read “Nineteen Degrees,” a story about what it was like to have held a hummingbird.
“…I close the towel around her, cupping her in my hands. She is so light, like a penny, and each time she stirs it is so faint, like moth wings…”
~ published in the August 2011 Issue of The Battered Suitcase from Vagabondage Press and an honoree in the eChook Digital Publishing 2011 ‘Tis the Season Competition
Watch for two poems in Love Notes from Vagabondage Press, out just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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