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Happy Birthday Bert

Happy Birthday Bert

  You know him as the pigeon-loving, boring guy, sharing the basement apartment with the zany Ernie at 123 Sesame Street. According to Holidays for Everyone, today is his birthday. A Much Maligned Muppet Poor Bert is one of the …
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Married with Cats (Love Secrets Revealed)

Married with Cats

When my wife Eileen first asked me to be her girlfriend, I said no. And for several good reasons.  For starters, we lived about a hundred miles away from each other. We all know that long-distance relationships never last. Then …
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Sappho: Behind the Scenes

Originally, I found the idea of writing a short story intimidating. How could I tell an entire story in only a few thousand words? In fact I resisted the idea until Tina, the leader of my writer’s group, organized a …
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“In Between” – a short story

Are you a man? Or a woman? Or something else? Who gets to decide what you are? You? Your doctor? Your therapist? The government? In my short story “In Between”, Martina Glover is in the process of transitioning from male …
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“Sappho” – a short story

Teenager Sappho Espinoza-Brown is being bullied at school. But rather than inform her lesbian mothers, Sappho chooses to take matters in her own hands with disastrous results.
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