Tag: michaels story
member name: Laura Cushing
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March 17, 2007 12:02 AM EDT --
I found Abuela like an accident, when I wasn't really looking.
I'd been in California two years by then - it was already starting to make me jaded. I was working a fish market, packing boxes with . . .
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February 07, 2007 03:04 AM EST --
Draft one...
from: mmalone@perinthus.edu
to: jlee@perinthus.edu
Dear Jenny,
Or how do I begin? Is dear too much of an imposition, or a supposition, when after all, we've barely spoken? If I could . . .
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March 30, 2008 01:48 AM EDT --
I just read a poem that makes me want to write poetry again. Wow, do I like this poem. I want to write poetry again. Better poetry than I wrote before.
I've also been longing to work on my fiction . . .
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February 03, 2007 03:09 AM EST --
I hate everything about you. When you speak, I hate the words that come out of your mouth. When you're silent, I hate the shape of your silences - the way you never know how to voice what's on . . .
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February 10, 2007 01:34 AM EST --
A wiser man than me once said that you only get one chance to make a good first impression. So this is it, that one chance and I hope I don't blow it. I'm not really all that fond of talking about . . .
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March 07, 2007 10:42 PM EST --
(This story has been published in It Takes All Kinds. Part of a series called Michael's story - for more of this series, click here. )
In winter, Wednesday is soup day at Java the . . .
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February 01, 2007 12:21 AM EST --
"California people are not like us," my father said. He was rolling a joint at the time, twisting the crinkly paper end between his stubby fingers. This was the first time my father had . . .
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February 08, 2007 07:30 PM EST --
"That's an ugly shirt, " I said, shaking my head at Jules.
"Nothing makes friends like a funny shirt," he insisted, holding it up to me for sizing purposes. The shirt was a neon . . .
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February 10, 2007 12:53 AM EST --
Michael's story on Gather:
These are the Michael-stories I have posted so far. I will keep updating the list as I add more. There is no particular order in which they must be read. Some are full . . .
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February 11, 2007 02:39 AM EST --
When I was a child, I remember dreaming that my dentist was a vampire. It wasn't all that much of a stretch. Clearly, he already had a certain sadistic mannerism- why else would he be in a profession . . .
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February 23, 2007 11:12 PM EST --
"I'm sorry, Michael..."
I nodded slightly, the same automatic nod I'd been giving all day. I'd found my way out into the alcove, away from the stifling crowd and the overwhelming . . .
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February 28, 2007 01:30 AM EST --
All five are from Michael's story - for more of this series, click here. Each is exactly 100 words, and has to do with Michael's relationship with his father. The last one takes place after . . .
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February 10, 2007 12:02 AM EST --
This is the first new year in a long damn time that I haven't been hung over. I feel kind of weird for missing that familiar hazy feeling. Last night, I was sitting at the hospital with my father, . . .
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August 06, 2008 03:12 PM EDT --
We're working on a new and exciting project - turning my Michael's story into comics. The very talented bartolome is going to be the artist - her art is amazing, and I'm so excited . . .
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February 01, 2007 02:10 AM EST --
Hey. Um...
Hey there.
I'm not really good at these sort of things, so I suppose I'll start at the beginning, or maybe, more like the middle. Or.. yeah. Anyhow, my name is Michael, . . .
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September 28, 2008 08:00 AM EDT --
In bad news (though good news for Bev!) Bev got in to grad school, and won't have time to do the rest of the comic series after the mini-comic. I'm sad about this because I really love her art . . .
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February 13, 2007 10:32 PM EST --
When I was fifteen, money was tight. My mother'd left the summer before, and my father had started pissing all his money away on drinking and useless things to try to fill the empty spots in the . . .
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February 20, 2007 08:14 PM EST --
(Two tiny-tiny 100 word flash fictions about Michael's kitty, Clawdia. For a list of all the Michael-stories posted so far, click here)
Finding Clawdia
At work, I was taking out . . .
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July 02, 2008 08:48 AM EDT --
I finally came up with an uber-short description of Michael's story that i like:
Michael's story is narrated by Michael Malone, a young musician with social anxiety. It is a story about bonds, . . .
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September 08, 2008 04:36 AM EDT --
I put up a preliminary little website for Michael's Story, the comic here . It needs some design help and more features, but it's a start. I have so much web work that I need to do , and I'm . . .
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