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    • -Upcoming Contests
    • April 2025 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -April 2025 Entries & Voting Page
      • ##Art in Life and Art as Life
      • Arms of Light
      • Dancing at Bougival (poem)
      • Ekphrasizing “WORK”
      • Kitkit and the Catty-Can
      • Long Way Home
      • Mater Dolorosa (poem)
      • Mixed Memories
      • Ode to a Graduation Photograph (poem)
      • Sculptor’s Surprise
      • Summer of ’66
      • Twelve-Twelve, or Twelve Twelve?
      • Variations on a Theme
    • July 2025 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -July 2025 Entries & Voting Page
    • June 2025 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -June 2025 Entries & Voting Page
      • ##Dances With Sharks (poem)
      • ##Somewhere Between Sea and Sky
      • A Different World 2
      • Beach Bum
      • Beside the Seaside
      • My Buddy OliveR
      • No Common Ancestor
      • Rush to Judgment
      • Sun, Sea, and Guys
      • Thrice is so Nice (poem)
      • Under the Skies of Blue
    • March 2025 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -March 2025 Entries & Voting Page
      • ##Moving Again
      • China’s Choice
      • Embracing the Unknown (poem)
      • For Future Reference (poem)
      • Kitkit Embraces the Unknown
      • Possibility in the Unknown
      • Quest for the Unknown Quantity
      • Surprises in my Life
      • The New Atonal Polacks Forever Existential Blues Band
      • The Path Not Yet Taken (poem)
    • May 2025 Ezine/Contest Page
      • -May 2025 Entries & Voting Page
      • A Room on the Water
      • At A Distance
      • Bedroom Windows
      • Bittersweet
      • Counting
      • Cow Tag
      • Disturbance on Lake Durbin
      • Flight Beyond the Known (poem)
      • Here Lies a Tale
      • Independence
      • My Husband Thinks “Lawn Boy” is a Mower!
      • Peer Through a Window
      • Peering Through Pandora’s Portals
      • The Pink Monstrosity
      • Windows of my Mind (poem)
      • Windows of Space and Time
    • 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)
        • 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)
        • Dec. 2024 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -Dec. 2024 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##The Spaces In Between: A Personal View
          • A Legacy of John Lennon, Julian Lennon… and Me
          • Diamondback Blues
          • Existing in the In-between
          • Follow the Butterflies (poem)
          • Kitten in a Suitcase
          • Max and Patty’s Space Adventure: Episode IV: Part 2
          • My New Superpower
          • Spaces Between Us
          • Spaces: Yours, Mine, Theirs
          • The Scale of Things
          • The Space Between (poem)
          • Thinking Deeply of those Spaces In Between
          • Zozo’s Zircle
        • 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
        • 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
          • Student Teachers
          • Teacher Inspiration
        • 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
      • 2025 Ezine/Contest Entries
        • January 2025 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -Jan. 2025 Entries & Voting Page
          • ##Tontine For Two
          • A Heavy Question
          • A Win For a Child And His Cat
          • Board Games
          • Life Won, Lives Lost
          • The Path To Perdition
          • This Wasn’t Supposed to Happen
          • What if The Other One Won?
          • When One Door Closes
          • Winning And Losing
          • Winning Words
        • February 2025 Ezine/Contest Page
          • -Feb. 2025 Entries & Voting Page
          • A Barely-There Affair
          • Almost Perfect (poem)
          • And so Between Them Both, You See…
          • Angel and Bill
          • Friends
          • Gossip
          • Not What They Seem
          • Ode to my Computer (poem)
          • Perfect Indeed!
          • Perfection Expired
          • Roman Holiday
          • The Odist Couple
    • Contest History
      • Voting Outcomes
        • Voting Outcomes 2021 & Beyond
        • Voting outcomes 2009 – 2020
      • Past Contest Entries by Author Names
      • Past Contest Entries by Month
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