Wish You Were Here
Idiot boss man who sat me down two weeks after my husband died and told me how I was a fuckup, I can see your fat… Read More »Wish You Were Here
Lenore's collections include "Tap Dancing on the Silverado Trail" (2011) from Finishing Line Press, “Sh’ma Yis’rael” (2007) from Pudding House Publications, and "Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island" (West End Press, 2012). Her writing has won recognition from Poets&Writers (finalist in California Voices contest) and as a finalist for Pablo Neruda Prize, Nimrod International Journal. The Society for Technical Communication has recognized her work regarding Technical Literacy in the schools. All material is copyrighted on this site and cannot be used without the author's permission.
Idiot boss man who sat me down two weeks after my husband died and told me how I was a fuckup, I can see your fat… Read More »Wish You Were Here
Missing breakfast, I ventured downstairs to Kybele’s cafe in the hope of scoring coffee, treated to the same plus an amazing fruit platter of halved… Read More »Get Your Dervish On
Somewhere I lost a day. After being rescued from Ataturk Airport, I drifted in the street like a satrap exhausted by conquest of the Atlantic… Read More »Istanbul 2
Women on the plane wore head scarves, others neck pillows, shoes from all over the mall. The only constant was the omnipresence of cellphones and… Read More »Istanbul
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Books UPS taped and labeled, my proxy before I landed in Shreveport where a shunned bullet path stuttered like a roman candle, and a bag… Read More »We Watched a Mystery on TV in Your Hospital Room
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Last night I crossed the condo’s parking lot, caught my towel on an open metal gate soaked in a Jacuzzi during a lunar eclipse, moonlight… Read More »Always
This is a story of two coffee shops that face each other on opposite sides of the street. One is General Arthur’s, named after a… Read More »Unemployment Statistics
Inside the discolored sink of her hands, a woman leans over a single spark. Hers alone to nurse this foul splinter. To smother with rocks… Read More »One Moment