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      • Adonai (poem)
      • Choices and Chances
      • IF (Portrait of a Marriage)
      • Life Story
      • Portal to Peace
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      • What If I Made a Living As a Writer?
      • What if the Moon Were Made of Cheese? (poem)
      • What if…. Mt. St. Helens Erupts…..Again (poem)
    • July 2017
      • –Current Contest Calendar
      • -Voting Booth=July
      • 01-A Song of Eternal Flame (poem)
      • 02 An Old-Fashioned View
      • 03 Art For Art’s Sake
      • 04 Kitkit’s Picture Box
      • 05 Life Changes (poem)
      • 06 Lisa’s Portrait
      • 07 Me And My Shadow (poem)
      • 08 My Summer of Love
      • 09 Nighthawks
      • 10 Slave (poem)
    • June 2017
      • 00 VOTING BOOTH for June
      • 01 Jetsam (poem)
      • 02 Kitkit’s Rain
      • 03 Mirage
      • 04 Splashes of Childhood
      • 05 The River
      • 06 Undercurrent of the Pond
      • 07 Water, a mystery… (poem)
      • 08 Water, water everywhere
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      • 2017 Contests
        • April 2017
          • -01- Earth Wonder (poem)
          • -02- Eucalyptus Magic (poem)
          • -03- I Wonder (poem)
          • -04- In Awe of Nature’s Splendor (poem)
          • -05- Left Behind (poem)
          • -06- Serendipity
          • -07- The Portal
          • -08- Water
          • -09- Where Have All the Adverbs Gone? (poem)
          • -10- Wonder
        • February 2017
          • -01- A Friendship to Last (poem)
          • -02- A Heart for Carl
          • -03- Garret Frog’s Adventure With Humans
          • -04- Kitkit’s Night of Many Tasks
          • Christmas For Carl
        • January 2017
          • -01- A Different New Year’s Eve
          • -02- An Extraordinary Day
          • -03- A Dark and Stormy Knight
          • -04- Lucky Lucy
          • -05- Over the River
          • -06- Refuge
          • -07- Ring in the New (poem)
          • -08- Umbrella Go Round
          • -09- What Google Didn’t Know
        • March 2017
          • -01- Cat on the Moon
          • -02- First Steps on the Moon
          • -03- Kitkit Sees the Moon
          • -04- Moon Masquerade (poem)
          • -05- Moonlight (poem)
          • -06- The Arrival of Kitty
          • -07- The Serenade of a Full Moon (poem)
          • -08- The Wolves
        • May 2017
          • 00-Voting Booth for May
          • 01 Across the Wall
          • 02 Karma
          • 03 Kitkit and Joe
          • 04 Local Headline (essay)
          • 05 Points of View at a Cafe Meeting
          • 06 Secret Lives
          • 07 She Used to Talk Too Much
          • 08 Siblings (poem)
          • 09 Unspoken Bond (poem)
          • XTRA–Rojo Toro for comments
      • 2014 contests
        • Dec. 2014
          • (*) A Four-Footed Gift — Comments Only
          • (1) An Unexpected Gift (Story)
          • (2) An Unexpected Gift (Poem)
          • (3) Christmas With the Smith Family
          • (4) Mitzi
          • (5) Snow Angels
          • (6) The Snow in May (Poem)
          • (7) Worth Waiting For
        • July/August 2014
          • (1)Burn the Chair
          • (2)Independence
          • (3)Independence Day
          • (4)Freed From Alcatraz
          • (5)Introducing Royalty
          • (6)The Day I Ran Over the Bird
          • (7)What America Means To Me
          • (8)COMMENTS ONLY: Freedom
        • June 2014
          • (1) A Feeling
          • (2) I Know the Dark
          • (3) Interference in the Dark (Strong Language)
          • (4) Is It Dark There?
          • (5) Prairie Dog Town
          • (6) Stars Dance
          • (7) The Cave
          • (8) The Curious Case of Ghost Pickles
          • (9) Bridal Cave
        • November 2014
          • (1) Artist’s Getaway
          • (2) Christmas Spirits
          • (3) Hideaway
          • (4) Hiding Away in Books
          • (5) My Sandbar Island
          • (6) Warm Hideaway
        • OCTOBER 2014
          • (1) Dancing With the Devil
          • (2) Davy and the Devil
          • (3) Death’s Prayer
          • (4) Little Angel
          • (5) The House on Old Mill Road
          • (6) Watch Out For Scrambled Details
          • (7) Of Heaven And Hell
          • (8) The Ultimate Foe
          • (Special) “The Devil’s in the Details”
        • September 2014
          • (1) Bravata
          • (2) Braving the IKEA Blues
          • (3) On The Trail
          • (4) Stand In Front Of It All (poem)
          • (5) When the Sky Stops Falling
        • May 2014
          • (1)Mother May I? (STORY)
          • (2)In Search of Independence
          • (3)Mother May I?(Poem)
          • (4)Mothers’ Watch
          • (5)The Tattoo Queen
          • (6)Untitled
          • (7)Will You Release My Heart?
          • JUST FOR FUN!
      • 2015Contests
        • April 2015
          • -01- Cob and Pen
          • -02- Drowning in Air (Note: includes strong language)
          • -03- Fog (Note: May not be suitable for younger readers)
          • -04- Homeward Bound, Chapter IV
          • -05- Joe’s Midnight Adventure
          • -06- Swimming in Lake Oswego
          • -07- Water Baby
          • Sharks Are Among Us
        • August 2015
          • -01- Cold Case
          • -02- Dreamer…I Wanna Be With You
          • -03- Hopeless in Seattle
          • -04- Little Joe and the Buried Treasure
          • -05- Melody
          • -06- Message in a Bottle
          • -07- Minstrel Magic
          • -08- Prologue (contains some cussing)
          • -09- The Hidden Gift
          • -10- Wine Hour
        • December 2015
          • -01- Ethereal
          • -02- I Fly in Snow
          • -03- “I’m not white, Mommy!”
          • -04- Lost And Found
          • -05- Love is a White Fickle Thing
          • -06- Prescription for White Noise
          • -07- Spirit Bear
          • -08- White
          • -09- White On Black
          • -10- White Rockets in the Sky
          • -11- White Wandering
        • February 2015
          • -01- A Tale of Long Ago
          • -02- A Wartime Adventure
          • -03- Deer Charm
          • -04- Dust Bunny Wars
          • -05- Dust Guinea Pigs
          • -06- He Sleeps
          • -07- Hide and Go Seek
          • -08- Homeward Bound
          • -09- Memories All Around
          • -10- Sonnet MMIXV
          • -11- The Box Under the Bed
          • -12- The Thing Under the Bed
          • -13- Under the Bed (Poem)
          • -14- Under the Bed (STORY)
        • January 2015
          • -10- Holy (poem)
          • -11- Passing Through (poem)
          • -12- Figures
          • -13- Hole in my Heart (poem)
          • (1) My Holes
          • (2) Let’s Dig a Hole
          • (3) Into the Darkness
          • (4) Holes in my Life
          • (5) The Hole in my Heart
          • (6) The Size of the Hole
          • (7) The Treasure-Hole
          • (8) Holes in the Forest
          • (9) Holes-1
        • July 2015
          • -01- Claire’s Choice
          • -02- Giving Back
          • -03- Homeward Bound Chapter VII
          • -04- La Maestra
          • -05- Laughter of Cicadas
          • -06- Mistakes Were Made
          • -07- Old Tom
          • -08- The Switch
        • June 2015
          • -1- Flight
          • -2- Fly Away Peter, Fly Away Paul
          • -3- From Electric Trains to Electrical Engineering
          • -4- Humpty Dumpty
          • -5- Jenny’s Dream
          • -6- The Christmas Attic
          • -7- Visiting Grandma
          • -8- What to do With Green Goo
          • EXTRA – Homeward Bound, Chapter VI
        • March 2015
          • -01- Automatic Transmission
          • -02- Case Closed
          • -03- Cat in a Homeless Town (poem)
          • -04- Cedar Mill Writers LLC
          • -05- Homeward Bound, Chapter III
          • -06- In the News #1 (poem)
          • -07- In the News #2 (poem)
          • -08- Love’s Sad Pawn
          • -09- Squirrel 1 – Home 0
          • -10- The Future of Everything
        • May 2015
          • -01- In the Closet
          • -02- Isolation (Poem)
          • -03- Lost
          • -04- Room To Let
          • -05- The Bees in Baseball
          • -06- The Cure
          • -07- The God Particle (poem)
          • -08- The Rhythm of Her Days (poem)
          • EXTRA – Homeward Bound, Chapter V (Mild Cursing)
        • November 2015
          • -01- Hemlock’s Child
          • -02- In Kind
          • -03- Little Joe Remembers
          • -04- Malcolm Est Inconnu
          • -05- Predator and Prey
          • -06- The Mother—Warning, subject matter
        • October 2015
          • -01- Dark Night of the Planet
          • -02- Gotcha!
          • -03- Halloween Night
          • -04- Not the Twist You Expected (PG-13)
          • -05- Show and Tell
          • -06- Spider
          • -07- The Red Hand
          • -08- Whispering Trees
          • Comments Only: I’m Scared
        • September 2015
          • -01- A Wind in the Heel
          • -02- Go Set A Deliveryman
          • -03- Of Mice And Cats
          • -04- The Girl With The Dragon Taboo
          • -05- The Tight Runner
      • 2016Contests
        • April 2016
          • -01- Airport Temptation
          • -02- Apart From Love
          • -03- Enticing Adventure
          • -04- Eve
          • -05- I Never Remember
          • -06- Irresistible Temptation
          • -07- Pandora Boxed
          • -08- Sebastian B Sebring III
          • -09- The Sound of Water
          • -10- The Temptations of Kitkit and Joe
        • AUGUST 2016
          • -01- Empty Heart
          • -02- Memories of Grandma
          • -03- Storm of the Century
          • -04- The Duprass
          • -05- The Pact
          • -06- Too Late
          • -07- Two Chairs at Seaside
          • -08- Two Chairs on the Beach
          • -09- As We Should
        • December 2016
          • -01- A Ring of Truth (poem)
          • -02- Christmas Tree (poem)
          • -03- Halo in the Dark
          • -04- The Coconut Ring
          • -05- Tree Rings (poem)
          • -06- Two Wedding Rings
          • -07- Unmentionable Term
          • Xtra–Christmas Chimes
        • February 2016
          • -01- Across the Prairie, 1866
          • -02- At This Late Hour
          • -03- Europe Envy
          • -04- I Once Had a Brother
          • -05- It’s Not What You Think (POEM)
          • -06- It’s Not What You Think (STORY)
          • -07- Rain Check
          • -08- The Gift
          • -09- The Path Less Travelled
          • -10- The Unwritten Rule
          • -11- Who Am I?
          • -12- You Don’t Understand
          • XTRA – Homeward Bound, Chapter IX
        • January 2016
          • -01- A Learning Process
          • -02- A Year in a Century
          • -03- A Year in the Life of a Retired Missionary
          • -04- Becoming American
          • -05- Destiny’s Fall (a drabble)
          • -06- Do Over
          • -07- Every Man (Lang. Warning)
          • -08- One Year
          • -09- Shadow Cities
          • -10- This Changed My Life
          • XTRA — One Final Journey
        • July 2016
          • -01- A Most Holey Adventure
          • -02- Dear Alice
          • -03- Deception
          • -04- Eco-Tourism
          • -05- Kathy With a K
          • -06- Postcard From Portland
          • -07- Postcards From Kevin
          • -08- Split Decisions
          • -09- Summer Bliss
          • -10- Transitions in Snippets
          • -11- Where’s Patsy?
          • -12- Wrong Address
        • June 2016
          • -01- Breath of Life
          • -02- Changing Homes – Small Sacrifice River
          • -03- Changing Homes — Strong Horse River
          • -04- Community
          • -05- Even A Hermit Crab
          • -06- Home, A Place to Hang My Heart
          • -07- Home Was Where They Never Let Me In
          • -08- My Home
          • -09- Welcome Home
          • -10- Windows Blues
          • XTRA — Changing homes – Farewell Bend
        • March 2016
          • -01- At Your Peril
          • -02- A Window at Nye Beach
          • -03- Greenskeepers
          • -04- Soul-song
          • -05- The Window
          • -06- The Windows of a Pan-handler’s Eyes
          • -07- Windows
          • -08- Windows on Malibu
          • -09- Yearning
          • XTRA — Refined (comments only, no votes)
        • May 2016
          • -01- A Day in my Twin Sister’s Life
          • -02- Cat, Dog and Mouse
          • -03- Faces of Change
          • -04- Joplin
          • -05- Me or You? (poem)
          • -06- Sedja-Satira-Silence
          • -07- The Ruse
        • November 2016
          • -01- A Cygnet Comes of Age (poem)
          • -02- Cob ‘N Pen
          • -03- Frog Prince
          • -04- Kitkit’s Splash
          • -05- Of Crows and Swans
          • -06- Spring Brings Surprises
          • -07- Swanee River (poem)
        • Oct. 2016
          • -01- A Dog’s Eye View
          • -02- A Lover of Quietness (poem)
          • -03- At the Seven-Eleven
          • -04- Carl Meets Fred and Joe
          • -05- Dylan and his Promise (poem)
          • -06- Favorite Things
          • -07- Moondoggy Meets Joe
          • -08- No Birds Today (poem)
          • -09- Who’s That Doggy on the Beach
        • September 2016
          • -01- As in Identical
          • -02- Doing Time
          • -03- Flowers
          • -04- Synchronicity
          • -05- The Architect
          • -06- Teddy
          • -07- The Last Time I Saw My Brother
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