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    • Nov. 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -Nov. 2024 Entries & Voting Page
      • Here And There (poem)
      • Kittens Don’t Go On Cruises
      • Max and Patty’s Space Adventure: Episode IV
      • My Friend Madeha
      • One World Shared
      • Parchment in a Bottle
      • The Far Side of Love (poem)
      • The Other Side of the World (poem)
      • The Other Side of the World: Life Without My Mom (poem)
      • There is No 3 Lllama (poem)
    • June 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -June 2024 Entries & Voting Page
      • Best Days of Your Life
      • Double Vision
      • Fantasy From Reality
      • Happy School Days in Malaysia
      • Like a Salmon, I Swam Upstream
      • School Days With a Difference
      • School Daze
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    • July 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -July 2024 Entries & Voting Page
      • Before We Met (poem)
      • Gentle Marble Joins My Family
      • Light of my Life
      • Powell Street Station
      • Prodigal Cocktail
      • Riding With Romans
      • Sorry (poem)
      • Such a Help
      • The Universe Spoke to Me
      • Upon Waking to a New Day (poem)
      • What Happens in a…
    • August 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -Aug. 2024 Entries & Voting Page
      • Aunt Violet’s Funeral
      • Eliminating the Competition
      • Gold Digger
      • His Obituary
      • Keeping Things Quiet
      • Kitkit’s Clever Plan
      • Meatloaf, Not Meat Loaf
      • Mischief, Lord of the Void
      • Puzzled No More (poem)
      • Two Men and a River (poem)
    • Sept. 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -Sept. 2024 Entries & Voting Page
      • A Learning Curve
      • Digging Below the Surface
      • Honest Musings?
      • New Year’s Resolution
      • The Hunt (poem)
      • Veritas
      • Washing the Pig
      • What is Truth? (poem)
    • Oct. 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -Oct. 2024 Entries & Voting Page
      • A Tale of Two Birds
      • An Essay On The Sound of Magic
      • Are They Still Alive?
      • De Los Muertos
      • Fernanda’s Colony
      • Her Heartbeat (poem)
      • It Can’t Happen Here
      • Not Bad For a Buck
      • Pebble Moon
      • Scars
      • The Bakezori
      • The Prey (poem)
      • The Word Was UNK
      • Til Death
    • Recent Contests
      • 2023 Contest/Ezine Entries
        • April 2023 Contest Page
          • -April 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##When Morton Met Angie
          • Bird Food
          • Dickensian Twists And Turners
          • Following a Legend
          • Food Over the Years
          • How Things Change
          • No, You Can’t Steal That Sample
          • The Artichoke Cult
          • The Day They Forgot to Feed the Pets
          • The Wendell Family Reunion
          • Yes, But Where Do You Put It
        • August 2023 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -August 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##Talking Walls
          • Chester High
          • Do You Know Mother’s Stories? (poem)
          • Echoes From the Past
          • Eventful Years
          • Kitkit and the Talking Wall
          • The Ghost Light
          • The Talisman
          • The Walls Have Ears
          • Turning the Threat Around
        • Dec. 2023 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -Dec. 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • A Short Visit
          • Doggert
          • Happy Memories
          • I Buried My Ex-Boyfriend
          • My Grandparents’ Garden
          • Of Man And Beast, Episode 2
          • The Last Time
          • The Last Time I Was in Santiam Pass (poem)
        • February 2023 Contest Page
          • -Feb. 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • A Story About Arrows
          • A Winter Morning (poem)
          • Above the Snow
          • Goodnight Winter! (poem)
          • See You Next Fall
          • Silver Linings (poem)
          • Sunshine in the Eternal Winter
          • Two Viewpoints (poem)
          • We Met On a Winter Day
          • Why?
          • Winter
          • Winter 2020 — Snowbound (poem)
          • Words About Snow (poem)
        • January 2023 Contest Page
          • -Jan. 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##Anna (poem)
          • A Standard Call for Servicing
          • As Time Goes By
          • Choices, Part 2
          • Coffee And Conversation
          • Even Sheep Can Change Their Spots!
          • Frozen Radiance (poem)
          • I Don’t Want to Embrace This Change
          • Jennie’s New Life
          • Rose Bowl Resolutions
          • Whatever Will Be Will Be
          • You Changed to a What!
        • July 2023 Contest Page
          • -July 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • ‘ ##You Have No Idea How Lucky You Are
          • “Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation” (poem)
          • Comrades No More
          • Cultural Evolution
          • Infant Power
          • My Generation, Long Ago
          • Privileged Not Lucky (poem)
          • Puerto Williams, Chile
          • Standing Room Only
          • The Luckiest Generation
          • The Silent Generation
          • Undivided
          • Uphill Both Ways (poem)
        • June 2023 Contest Page
          • -June 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##Search For Renewal
          • A Ring With Nine Lives
          • Ancient Astronomy
          • Finding Us (poem)
          • Heroes Seeking Treasure
          • King of the Hill
          • Lost And Found Detective Agency
          • Perdition Redeemed
          • Something Special
          • Trigger
          • Wanderlust (poem)
        • March 2023 Contest Page
          • -March 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##The Odds are a Googolplex to One
          • A Day Trip Adventure
          • Green Lights Out of the Blue
          • Green Means GO?
          • Hannibal’s Other Road
          • If I Hadn’t Dreamed
          • Kitkit’s If Onlys
          • Navigating Early Marriage on an Old Trail
          • Out of This World
          • Semi-colon Justice
          • Silly Old Cow (poem)
          • Sweeter Than Sugar Shop
          • The Mean Teacher
          • Throwing Down the Bible
          • We Always Have Choices
          • What If (poem)
          • When Bad Changes to Good
        • May 2023 Contest Page
          • -May 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##Miles Davis’s ‘Sketches of Spain’
          • A Day in my Life
          • Astute Annelids
          • Delights of Income Tax Prep
          • Ethereal Waves
          • I Love to Sing
          • I Think I’ll Pass
          • In the Key of Life
          • Mosquito Mixed Tape
          • Smetana, Jones, and Zappa!
          • Song of Synaesthesia
          • Song of Time
          • Sounds of Day
          • Strange Piano
        • Nov. 2023 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -Nov. 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • Both Sides of the Barriers (poem)
          • Crossing the Corpus Callosum
          • Escaping From the Gravity Well
          • Every Step Matters
          • I Believe (poem)
          • Jolene
          • Just Keep Pushing Through
          • Of Man And Beast – Part 1
          • The Bike Ride (poem)
          • Time’s Barriers
          • What Lay Beyond the Fence
        • Oct. 2023 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -Oct. 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • A Touching Compromise
          • A Wonderful Surprise
          • Death in Mosier
          • How Did You Celebrate Your 30th Birthday?
          • Just Change Course
          • Little Joe’s Blue Collar
          • The Best Dishwasher Loader
          • When the Whole World Wonders Why!
          • Whynot the Robot
          • You Can’t Set German Shepherds on Fire Tonight
        • Sept. 2023 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -Sept. 2023 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##Falling For a Challenge
          • A Scesis Onomaton Ode To…
          • Chasing Waterfalls
          • Felled in Love
          • Fire Fall
          • Roller Coaster Ride (poem)
          • That Wretched Prince
          • The Fallen Unforgotten
          • When Bad Becomes Good
          • Words
      • 2024 Ezine/Contest Entries
        • February 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -Feb. 2024 Entries & Voting Page
          • A Day(dream) in the Life of a Mother
          • A Mother’s Son (poem)
          • Adventure’s Bright Dawn
          • An Old Lady’s Thoughts
          • Cat Dreams
          • Dream Ja Vu
          • Homo Somniens
          • Messages in the Stars
          • My Winter Daydream (poem)
          • The Daydreamer
          • The Shape of Things to Come
        • Jan. 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -Jan. 2024 Entries & Voting Page
          • Betty May
          • Escape!
          • Good-Bye My Son
          • Happiness in a Name
          • Henku
          • Joy
          • Kitkit Grows Up Happily On A Cold And Frosty Morning
          • Leaks, Caulk, and Ladders
          • Lovely Conflagration
          • My Best Friend Sophie
          • Oh, Happy Days
          • The Art of Machine Learning
          • Then Sings My Soul (poem)
          • Times That Are Special
          • Yes, I Can
        • March 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -March 2024 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##Greetings From a Wildflower
          • A Conversation
          • A Monstrous Mystery!
          • Chloe’s New Life
          • Favor
          • Green Grow the Rushes On the Riverbank
          • Kitkit and the Mystery of the Missing Fence Slats
          • Maskirovka
          • Max and Patty’s Space Adventure: Episode III
          • Mysterious Joy (poem)
          • Never Judge a Book By Its Cover
          • They Looked Familiar (poem)
        • April 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -April 2024 Entries & Voting Page
          • A Different World
          • A Silly Sonnet (poem)
          • Bigger Than His Bite
          • Dad’s Bench
          • I Wonder!
          • Incriminating Evidence
          • Like a Salmon, I Swam Upstream
          • My New Life
          • She Hides (poem)
          • So Glad I Did!
          • What Have I Done Wrong?
        • May 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -May 2024 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##Plotters and Pantsers of the World Unite!
          • Finding Lena
          • Graphs
          • Like a Salmon, I Swam Upstream–part 2
          • Little Word–Many Uses
          • Make it Shallow
          • Searching For a Plot (poem)
          • The Baby and the Wormhole
          • The Clue is Lost in the Plot
          • The Plot Dilutes
          • Tree, Man, and Child
    • Contest History
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        • Voting Outcomes 2021 & Beyond
        • Voting outcomes 2009 – 2020
      • Past Contest Entries by Author Names
      • Past Contest Entries by Month
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