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I will buy a truckload of old-fashioned light bulbs if they ban incandescents. My issue with halogen and flourescent bulbs? The color, poor quality, and flicker tires and offends my eyes. I would rather write by candlelight.

Use whatever bulb you prefer, but don’t tell me which bulb I must buy. Going green is fine, and I’m on board for the most part, but forcing your ideas on others proves nothing but how unenlightened you really are.

Three cheers for Edison’s incandescents and a ‘BOOO!’ for lawmakers and others who have nothing better to do.   ~ N

“Seeing the Light”

by Moira Allen, Editor, http://www.writing-world.com 

I don’t often use this space for “advocacy,” but this month I’m going to make an exception. This month, I’m going to take a stand for something that is of rather great importance for writers: Light. Many of you are probably aware that a ban on incandescent light bulbs is scheduled to go into effect in the U.S. in January 2012…What is offered in place of such bulbs is a choice between halogen and “compact fluorescent” bulbs… <<read more>>

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Nantucket

There was that summer

I first saw your waves:

Memorial Day had drawn me here;

Labor Day had carried me away…   <<read more>>

~ Horable Mention, Nantucket Directory 2011-2012 Poetry Contest

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Only Seventeen

When they pick me up, Mother

won’t come

get me.

This lifts my runaway status,

sets me

free… <<read more>>

~ The Stone Hobo

also up at the site: Observations of a Mexican Barfly

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The Judgment of Venus and David

…Amidst what would otherwise be tragedy, the couple exudes the ess, the artist’s curved line and point where motion changes direction, redefines itself, traps the eye… <<read more>>

~ Backhand Stories

reader comments

A lovely display of purple prose…

~ en Palatable

Very original, very poetic…its original rhythm reminded me of jazz, think the right word here is syncopated. Although the subject is almost banal, the way it is presented is anything but…

~ Jan Bollaert

You boiled their story down to a few poetic sentences. True art at its best.

~ nikintix

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Observations of a Mexican Barfly

Brunette Margarita doesn’t offer herself

—yet—

to Blond Tequila Sunrise,

who shadows her now… <<read more>>

~ The Stone Hobo

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Finalist / Top 8
awarded for a work of short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose)
written by a woman…on a subject of significance to women
 
thank you Jessica Powers and Ann and Amanda Angel for including this story in Silent Embrace: Perspectives on Birth and Adoption from Catalyst Book Press
 
writers receive so many rejections, and sometimes it’s fun to share the rare acceptance note or announcement…
Dear Natalie:
 
While your story “Revisions” didn’t win one of the monetary prizes, it was one of the eight top contenders. Out of 622 entries, that’s quite an accomplishment and I hope it means something to you. With your permission, I would like to post your story on the Glass Woman Prize web page…
 
…In any event, congratulations on a compelling and interestingly told story. All the best to you,

Beate

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The Best Bite

At ten I imagined that love
was like the best bite of
my peanut butter and jelly… <<read more>>

~ Every Day Poets

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