The Hopper, an environmental lit magazine, has just published a short story of mine. Check it out: http://www.hoppermag.org/trip-to-town
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The Hopper, an environmental lit magazine, has just published a short story of mine. Check it out: http://www.hoppermag.org/trip-to-town
ShiftnShake 
Congratulations. Happy for you and glad I have the privilege of gleaning some of your expertise.
Sue
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I don’t know about expertise, but I appreciate your feedback along the way. I think I might have read this piece the other day.
Thanks Susan!
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Yes, you did read it on open mic.
I appreciate your feedback too.
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Awesome, D. I enjoyed this piece when you read it on the open mic.
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Thanks, Ann, I’m glad you did, but here’s a fun fact: I wasn’t able to breathe through that reading, was that nerved up. Hope the words on the page do better on their own. Either way, it’s a good feeling to have a story accepted and published.
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Congratulations 🙂
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Thank you Sue.
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Congratulations. How awesome. Love your bio too – newly retired teacher. 🙂
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Ha! Yeah, that’s a new line I thought I’d try on for size. I think it will be an interesting fit come the end of August.
Thanks for reading, Buddy.
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The pleasure was mine!
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Congratulations. That is the story of our industrial “civilization ” in a nutshell. From an intersected community of enough, to an impoverished island of never enough. (K)
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And that’s a fine summation.
Thank you. And congratulations yourself!
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Thanks!
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Congratulations, it was lovely to hear you reading this at the Ranch 5 at the mic last week.
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Thank you. That 5 at the Mic will air at the Saddle Up Saloon in a couple weeks, then you can be seen and heard again too!
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Congratulations. Eloquent and poignant. This resonated with me as someone who grew up in Florida, left and never looked back. Some of us in still-semi-rural areas still fight a bitter holding action, unwilling to accept the false dichotomy of jobs vs. the environment.
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Thank you for your comments, I appreciate that.
Yes, this family did not realize that their economic situation was better off when they lived closer to home, even though their gross dollar income may have risen.
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Congrats, Avery, on being published. This story resonates with me. I have seen the Flame of the Forest and other trees destroyed in my hometown to make way for new buildings and malls. As a result of all these tree-cutting, we suffered from poor rainfall for a couple of years. Your last sentence about Molly’s skull and her perceived final emotions were deeply moving.
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Thank you for the congrats, and it is always gratifying to know that my writing resonates with someone, though in this case I guess that’s kind of a grim thing. A good thing is I have lately been traveling some roads that narrow for no other reason than that the trees that are parallel to them are getting bigger but these trees are left unmolested, we in our trucks just have to slow down and look out for oncoming traffic.
Thank you for your comments.
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Congrats! and now our factories have gone the way of the farms and the shopping centers will follow, which i will not have any remorse about. Great writing. arlene
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Thank you!
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