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Archive for April, 2009

of her

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", creativity, family, life, love, writing on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

 
She still smiles at most everything, but she is losing more cognitive ability, more and more associations to words and meaning. Last week, she did something so bizarre that it shocked me, and I realized how far gone she is in this disease, which I just want to go away but which is taking her [...]

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masks

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", character, creativity, fiction, historical fiction, life, writing, writing process on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

That crack in the narrative I talked about blog before last….the story isn’t going where I thought it was. The story that take my imagination is the one about the man in the iron mask, not the story on Louis XIV’s struggle to outwit his superintendent of finance without starting a war. I just threw [...]

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ruby guard

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", creativity, fiction, historical fiction, life, writing, writing process on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I had a haiku hiccup out one evening this week. I was in bed writing in my journal, when the sensation of being watched felt strong. I looked up, and there Ruby sat on the chest of drawers, her green eyes on me. She reminded me of a sentry on duty. My sister, a dog [...]

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