MyBlogLog - Kathleen M : New with me

Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:14:37 -0800

Matthew the Action Hero
Tara’s reassurance that Brooke would “say yes” transported Matthew King into a state near reverence. Later he would...
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Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:34:48 -0800

Matthew's Secret Letter
Twenty-four minutes before his conference with Eon, Matthew ducked into a Verizon store on Prince Street and bought a mobile...
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Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:39:00 -0800

Amazing Grace
Once, after his dad slammed 10-year old Matt’s head against the door to teach him to close the refrigerator so it was sealed...
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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:00:58 -0800

Effortless Control
Matthew’s hotel suite in New York’s Soho district was sleek, spacious, and sunny. An illuminated flat screen appeared to...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:12:00 -0800

Hotel Aloha
After graduation in May, 2008, Daisy and I started at Salinger Brothers. The economy had flat-lined; layoffs deluged every...
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Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:44:00 -0800

Gender Bending in the Land of Oz
This perennial favorite on my blog dates back to the beginning: late 2006. At first, I thought the term “Gender Bending”...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:00:00 -0800

To Everyone Everywhere
To Everyone Everywhere: I'm wishing you GLAD TIDINGS and PEACE ON EARTH. (If need be, we will strive for peace throughout the...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:53:00 -0800

Sabrina Who Always Believed
The ever-changing light, time, and temperature enthralled Sabrina. She marveled at the vibrancy of everything alive and...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:00:00 -0800

Flayed Alive (again)
My original post called “Flayed Alive” is almost as consistently popular as the pictures from “The Land of Oz,” by L....
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Justifying My Existence (again)
From my lost novel, “Diary of a Heretic,” a writing prompt: For years I adhered to the idea that if I lived spartanly and...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:10:00 -0800

Guaranteed Happiness (again)
Here’s Diary of a Heretic’s all time readers’ favorite: My family called me, “Pris,” which I hated. It bothered me...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:24:54 -0800

Fiction Interrupted Again
Here’s an illustration of The Crosby Street Hotel’s lobby in New York City that’s remarkably similar to the fictional...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:31:11 -0800

Temporary Lover
Tara’s pleasure in getting the better of Matthew King—leaving him to contend with her gaga mama, refusing to take his note...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:42:13 -0800

Heroin-Flavored Bananas
Alone with Matthew and his children, Brooke and Tara’s mother Connie acted like a flighty teenager compared to her splendidly...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:17:27 -0800

How to Audition
Cleaving a chubby, thrashing four-year-old girl to her chest, thirty-eight-year-old Connie Logan gazed at Matthew King in...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:52:04 -0800

Cannonball
By the time Matthew stood up, Brooke’s little black shoes were already disappearing into the water that rippled outward,...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:09:24 -0800

Overexposed
Matthew King had sent all the help away, privacy being the only security that mattered here. He arranged for their meals to...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:29:40 -0800

The Half Shell
Tara pushed Ivy in a bucket swing. Dexter swung from the hanging rings. Brooke in her French hat and Matthew in sopping wet...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:51 -0800

The Third Degree
Matthew King had won three Emmys playing a psychiatric pediatric intern who figured out kids’ secret, disabling torments and...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:52:49 -0800

Forget Me Nots
While Tara grinned at Matthew, recalling his movie dialogue, he observed that she was slightly bigger than Brooke with brown...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:01:24 -0800

Just listened to a great jazz piano posted on Facebook by my friend Ira: Taylor Eigsti. Got myself a Taylor Eigsti Channel on...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:38:15 -0800

Le Chapeau d'Été
Brooke had phoned Tara before noon and said, “Come right now. I’ll meet you at the turn-off.” The path between Matthew...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:49:42 -0800

Better to Die than Try
After Brooke’s unspoken, stifling, six-month love affair with the senior from Boiceville (whose name shall never be...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:53:45 -0800

Double the Fun
In the gallery’s workroom Tara was stringing metallic beads for a complicated necklace her mother had designed and wondering...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:28:14 -0800

Fantasyland
Brooke hated that Tara had called out her ex-boyfriend in front of his friends. Because Brooke was the senior boy’s secret....
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