I assume this is fiction, but you don't tell us. Why was the family driving from New Jersey to Texas? Is the family going to return? Perhaps...
Never turn your back on a woman carrying an icicle.
I feel sorry for your cat. I even feel sorry for the 67 year old prostitute!
If you love L.A., you're definitely a sick man. Either that, or getting laid a lot. I don't understand someone putting his screen credit to a...
Norman Mailer did quite well with run-on sentences, as in Of a Fire On the Moon. Mailer was also a master writer. Certainly I'm not in his...
These posts are pretty off topic, which is Tasty Treat. Anyway, staying off topic: There are coywolves in the northeast U.S. which are bigger and...
Here's a link to the Taylor Mitchell tragedy: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/10/28/ns-coyote-attack-died.html Now you know as...
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Lighten up! No condescension here. I like Caliente's work.
For backgrounder, see Writers Forum/Tasty Treat. This is a sort of epilog written in a free-association or dream sequence style. Possible...
Fortunately for conservationists, that country is good only for photographers, rattlesnakes and Mormons. (These groups overlap considerably.)...
Stokely Carmichael once maintained that blacks in particular have a right to butcher the English language in any way they choose: improper use of...
Careful of those libel laws if you're writing fiction about real, living people. Someone might do a Google search on Pete Rose and have your...
There's a western song with the lyric 'old cowboy cross the great divide', but I can't find it on YouTube. Maybe Ian Tyson performed it? Watch...
Ed Abbey did a similar thing in Utah: Went down a desert gully and into a pocket where he couldn't descend and damn near couldn't get back up....
Maybe an understanding boyfriend would help. Maybe not.
Good to hear you made it back. (If you hadn't, I wouldn't be reading this.) Reminds me of one or two climbing trips I wouldn't care to repeat.
There is a darkly comical film about prostitution, "Irina Palm", starring Marianne Faithfull, which has some elements in common with your story....
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