tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:/groups/line-cook/feed_activityFictionaut: Group Activity for "Line Cook"2014-12-23T07:43:07Ztag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4936822014-12-23T07:43:07Z2014-12-23T07:43:07ZJason McCormick added the story "Untitled"Jason McCormick<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/jason-mccormick">Jason McCormick</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/jason-mccormick/untitled">Untitled</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4813482014-09-08T11:14:58Z2014-09-08T11:14:58ZMarcus Speh added the story "Tickled Pink"Marcus Speh<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/marcus-speh--3">Marcus Speh</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/marcus-speh--3/tickled-pink">Tickled Pink</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4812482014-09-07T22:31:35Z2014-09-07T22:31:35ZAnn Bogle posted to "First Published Story"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2105">First Published Story</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>I posted "Chinese" today, September 7, 2014.</p>
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tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4812462014-09-07T22:28:37Z2014-09-07T22:28:37ZAnn Bogle added the story "Chinese"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/ann-bogle/chinese">Chinese</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4771212014-08-16T04:00:22Z2014-08-16T04:00:22ZCharlotte Hamrick added the story "Delaronde Street"Charlotte Hamrick<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/charlotte-hamrick">Charlotte Hamrick</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/charlotte-hamrick/delaronde-street--2">Delaronde Street</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4751212014-07-31T16:43:51Z2014-07-31T16:43:51ZNonnie Augustine added the story "In Time,"Nonnie Augustine<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/nonnie-augustine">Nonnie Augustine</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/nonnie-augustine/in-time">In Time,</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4749432014-07-30T02:33:30Z2014-07-30T02:33:30ZGary Hardaway added the story "Brief Requiem for the Twentieth Century"Gary Hardaway<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/gary-hardaway">Gary Hardaway</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/gary-hardaway/brief-requiem-for-the-twentieth-century">Brief Requiem for the Twentieth Century</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4747862014-07-28T19:15:28Z2014-07-28T19:15:28ZAnn Bogle posted to "First Published Poem"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2108">First Published Poem</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>I enjoy the interlacing of music and writing, piano keyboard and computer keyboard, type pad, the inclusion of body image and food issues as connected (perhaps) to leaving music behind and taking to the keyboard. Terrific poem for me to read today, as I am in and out of music myself, Bb clarinet. *</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4747522014-07-28T04:11:30Z2014-07-28T04:11:30ZAnn Bogle posted to ""If My Feet Were Wings""Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2106">"If My Feet Were Wings"</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Lovely poem, angelic rhythms. I can see why Mockingbird alloyed it. It must have been a thrill to know of their acceptance.</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4747492014-07-28T02:47:59Z2014-07-28T02:47:59ZSam Rasnake posted to "First published poem"Sam Rasnake<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/sam-rasnake">Sam Rasnake</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2107">First published poem</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Good to read this one again, Bill.</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4747212014-07-27T22:25:57Z2014-07-27T22:25:57ZAndy Harris posted to "First Published Poem"Andy Harris<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/andy-harris">Andy Harris</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2108">First Published Poem</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Thanks Sam! </p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4747172014-07-27T22:03:04Z2014-07-27T22:03:04ZSam Rasnake posted to "First Published Poem"Sam Rasnake<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/sam-rasnake">Sam Rasnake</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2108">First Published Poem</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>I like the directness of the writing: "See this laptop. / It's a MacBook. / It's as white as your keyboard." ... "I do not see Postmodernism. / Ringing. / You ears are / Ringing an / Eb." The lines pull the reader. Thanks for posting the poem, Amanda. I like it.</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4746882014-07-27T18:45:05Z2014-07-27T18:45:05ZAnn Bogle posted to "First Published Story"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2105">First Published Story</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>I located my contract. I had thought I would have difficulty in interpreting it legally, and that has not turned out to be true. I can interpret it legally. I shall post "Chinese" when possible. I have a different "story" on page one today.</p>
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tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4746852014-07-27T18:00:07Z2014-07-27T18:00:07ZSam Rasnake added the story "If My Feet Were Wings"Sam Rasnake<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/sam-rasnake">Sam Rasnake</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/sam-rasnake/if-my-feet-were-wings--2">If My Feet Were Wings</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4746802014-07-27T17:29:04Z2014-07-27T17:29:04ZAndy Harris posted to "First Published Poem"Andy Harris<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/andy-harris">Andy Harris</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2108">First Published Poem</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Piano Dreams</p>
<p>When it’s good it’s good
<br />And it’s not good until it’s
<br />Perfect.
<br />Your piano against my fingers
<br />I’m tapping a different type of
<br />Key
<br />See this laptop.
<br />It’s a Macbook.
<br />It’s as white as your keyboard.
<br />Piano white for a
<br />Postmodern piano.</p>
<p>My pieces are divided into
<br />Acts that don’t
<br />Flow
<br />I think I may be Postmodern.
<br />I’m an
<br />Elusive
<br />Definition.
<br />My muscles are as defined as my
<br />Stanzas.
<br />I do not see Postmodernism.
<br />Ringing.
<br />Your ears are
<br />Ringing an
<br />Eb.
<br />You bury them in a pillow to
<br />Block the buzz.
<br />You do not hear Postmodernism.
<br />Anorexic.
<br />I am
<br />Starving myself until I
<br />Recover.
<br />I have not eaten in days
<br />I am
<br />Full on your
<br />Faux intellectualism
<br />I do not taste Postmodernism.</p>
<p>My piano is in the corner.
<br />It is made of wood.
<br />It has
<br />Thick accents along the edges
<br />It is
<br />Modeled from the Baroque era.
<br />I haven’t bought it yet.</p>
<p>A dream.
<br />You are
<br />In the corner
<br />Playing some piece by
<br />Marais
<br />Your tinnitus has made you
<br />Tone deaf
<br />You do not know you can’t play.
<br />Tired.
<br />I am
<br />Tired enough to
<br />Open my eyes and too tired to
<br />Know I was
<br />Sleeping.
<br />I do not dream of you.</p>
<p>First accepted by Marlow Pearce Weaver, for the anthology In Our Own Words: From a Generation Falsely Labeled.</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4746632014-07-27T16:08:49Z2014-07-27T16:08:49ZBill Yarrow posted to "First published poem"Bill Yarrow<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/bill-yarrow">Bill Yarrow</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2107">First published poem</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>The first poem I had published was "If Dogs Should Come." It appeared in Confrontation #22 in 1981. </p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4746622014-07-27T16:07:08Z2014-07-27T16:07:08ZBill Yarrow added the story "If Dogs Should Come"Bill Yarrow<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/bill-yarrow">Bill Yarrow</a></div>
sent
<a href="/stories/bill-yarrow/if-dogs-should-come">If Dogs Should Come</a>
to the group.
</div>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4746202014-07-27T13:17:50Z2014-07-27T13:17:50ZSam Rasnake posted to ""If My Feet Were Wings""Sam Rasnake<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/sam-rasnake">Sam Rasnake</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2106">"If My Feet Were Wings"</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>If My Feet Were Wings</p>
<p>If my feet were wings, I could fly
<br />against a sun and away from this hole
<br />that swallows me with its bit of clay,
<br />wet from the world on my cheek,
<br />collecting at my skin to breed
<br />in my pores. But I have no sun,
<br />no pair of wings whipping
<br />against the wind. I do have this hole
<br />with its noise of nails. I would wash
<br />the gunk from this body, but
<br />the river has dried and now whispers
<br />my name. I could stretch my flesh
<br />in a cloud, in a spiral close my eyes
<br />to dream with such swift silence,
<br />full vesseled, pulsing in rhythm,
<br />if my feet were wings, clean and young.</p>
<p>[First published piece - accepted 1983, published in Mockingbird, the literary magazine for East Tennessee State University.]</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4745932014-07-27T04:24:24Z2014-07-27T04:24:24ZAnn Bogle posted to "First Published Story"Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
posted to
<a href="/groups/line-cook/threads/2105">First Published Story</a>.
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Please post your first published story here. The idea to create this group occurred suddenly. I shall attempt to deposit a facsimile of the contract for my first published short story, "Chinese."</p>
</blockquote>
tag:fictionaut.com,2009-11-2:Activity/4745912014-07-27T04:12:24Z2014-07-27T04:12:24ZAnn Bogle formed this group.Ann Bogle<div class='title'>
<div class='name'><a href="/users/ann-bogle">Ann Bogle</a></div>
formed the group
<a href="/groups/line-cook">Line Cook</a>.
</div>