Stories by Emily Sparkles
- One Dead in Violent Crash
- Confetti Bomb
- Alice Invading the Garden
- Iowa Voters
- Food for Thought
- Conversations with my brother
- Glowing Inhibition
- To My Students, After Paris
- Pretty
- Indulgence
- Catherine
- The Anguish of Easter
- Original Sin
- Babel
- Self-Fired Bullets
- CNN Student News
- That One Time We Were on NPR...
- Mind Your Inspiration
- Heat
- Summer Waters
- John's Wife
- Love Story
- Privileged
- Augustine
- Love, your daughter
- Neither star nor killer
- Waves
- Good (Enough)
- A Whole
- Version - 2.0
- Borderline
- Some People
- Jane
- Past Forward
- Aurora
- Spellbinding
- Estella
- Blank Future
- Pleaser
- God, the Father
- Lullaby
- Possible Candidates for Reading to a Crowd
- the hunt
- A Night in the Trailer of the Headlining Band
- Phantasmagoria
- A Body Unable
- Control
- Lovely Gilded Scars
- Close/Far
- The Third Leading Cause
- confronting the nonconfrontational
- Goodbyes
- Strength
- Helpless
- The Eyes
- A New Thing
- 2+2=4
- A Condemnation
- Rabbit Trail
- Red
- Denis Johnson
- Professional Judgment
- Of Mugs and Men
- Begonia {part one}
- Begonia {part two}
- Begonia {part three}
- Begonia {part five}
- Begonia {part eight}
- Begonia {part four}
- Begonia {part six}
- creation
- Begonia {part seven}
- Begonia {part nine}
- Begonia {part ten}
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Emily Sparkles's Favorites
- The Secret of Healers and Monsters
- The Sometimes Serious Writer and His Ass
- First Husband
- Waiting
- HUNGRY
- One More Thing
- Revolutionaries
- Eulogy for a Friend
- My Unpublished Children's Books
- Thirty Seconds
- Clovers in her hair
- a can of emotional worms
- Author meets unflattering reviewer in bar
- You Don't Have to Read This
- Five Bones
- Drone
- A House
- Love Song Number 277
- A New Tattoo
- Losses in Translation
- Daylilies
- Haiku Life
- Spill
- Wings
- The Eleventh Commandment
- Smartphone
- The Cure for Cancer
- a face made of glass
- The Green Eyed Lady in the Glass Café
- The Stone Garden
- Down-n-Out in Beverly Hills
- The Long Afternoon
- A Quantum of Disappointment
- White Moon Between Two Yellow Trees
- Halloween Hangover
- Leave Smiles, Not Footprints
- Teeth
- Karma Control
- The Sun's Curtains
- 3rd Week in Rehab
- Scene One
- Alluvion
- When the Well Runs Dry
- Chocolate Dog
- MoonEarth Collision: A Disaster Story
- One Regrettable Talent for Tragedy
- A Language in Decay or the Progress of a New World Vernacular
- Babybonic Plague
- War and Peace
- Rejection Isn’t Always Everything It’s Racked Up To Be
- WAR AND MUSIC AND VIDS TO GO WITH
- Morbidity
- The Dead in Paris, Complete
- The Minotaur
- In the Carnage of Lament
- In The Eye of the Dark there is Everything
- 15:03, June 4th, 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Finale
- Today It Rains
- R.I.P.
- these days are serpents
- The Agreement
- Cartoon Campfire
- Paint my face Yemeni
- Threads of a Dream
- Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising (Parts IV - VI)
- Hungry 6-Year-Old Crashes Car While Driving to Applebee’s
- The Dead
- None But The Righteous
- The Thing on the Stair
- 4:45pm, Philadelphia
- No Nows Now
- The Three O'Clock Sun
- The Bird
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Trump (names and other things dropped out of boredom)
- Genesis Serpent’s Skin Found
- My Man Wears Cherry Pants
- The Savage (K2)
- So long
- The girl from the café who wore black eyeshadow
- Naming the Beauties
- Friendsgiving
- Workingman
- Every Mirror with Two Sides
- Blood Brother
- Passage
- Beneath the Rise and Murmur of Your Voice
- Fine, she said
- Half Staff
- Joseph Jarman Cadges a Cup of Tea
- Farewell Letter to the Blues
- These Are Not The Hours
- Miss Havisham's Fire
- Nine Elephants and an Ass
- Pretty New Landscape
- IT CAN, IT CAN, IT CAN
- Too Weak for the World
- Midwestern Charm
- Forecast for Mid-December
- The Unknowable
- Somewhere in the deep grasses...
- Poem for Amy Winehouse
- Death
- Autoerotic
- These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things
- Take
- During the Interim
- The Other Side
- Holiday Moons
- some days are
- Relative
- Bare Feet
- The Stoplight
- There is no heartbeat, Mrs Stirling.
- Alexander Hutchison said..
- Our 2015 Holiday Letter…Sort Of
- Two Takes on a Flickering Moth
- Lydia
- The Book Mind
- Crawl
- Three o’clock in the Morning
- Resolutions
- 2002 or 3
- A Requiem For The Heavyweights
- An Untitled Painting by Stephen Wright
- 20 Years
- Elephant with a little Poet on its Head
- Friends
- Jonestown on a Global Scale
- a poem by Darryl Price restructured by Samuel Derrick Rosen
- Crows and the Gunshot
- YOU
- Why Can’t God Send Us Some New Kind of Animal?
- Mosaic
- Constable Pulce and the Sunny Dystopia
- Brasita de Fuego
- Let’s Us Not Exaggerate
- In Every House, a Shadow Beyond the Door
- Across from Margaret Atwood's House
- Max's on Broadway
- You Were At Your Best with Strings Attached
- Song for Loren
- A Pill for a Pill
- The Absolute Goes Round In Circles
- "Your face seems faint against the violet glades..."
- Pink Lipstick & Cigarette Machines
- Ash
- ..maybe it was the fish I had for lunch
- Calypso
- Cube of Boxes
- Still Strangers.
- Old Shoes for Stranded Soles
- 20 minutes in the life
- The Judge's Wife
- Rain (a sense of her)
- Is it True about all the Lies
- Journal of Puritan Minister, Jon Sorrim: Fragment 1
- Still Life with Dragonfruit and Absinthe Glass
- Meadows
- January 1980: Avenue A and St. Mark’s Place, East Village
- The Existential wish
- one dozen haiku
- Forgetting Superman
- Winter in Waveland
- Refugees
- A Fine Life
- Model Home
- "you: the size of"
- The Seagulls of Sauchiehall Street
- The Widow and a Portrait of Jesus in Grayson's Nursing Home
- snatch 4
- chet baker
- The Judge's Wife Part 4
- Euphony and Fugue
- Having brunch with my friends
- Until there is nothing left but the smallest of hands
- Dignity Village, Portland
- I Thought
- The Fifth Snatch
- horrible haiku
- Fugitives of more than the whole Earth alone
- Seasonals
- The Lost Meaning
- Sonnet
- And when the moon went down...
- Misplaced Emotions
- Personal Hell - I'm Not Scared, Just Disappointed
- Paradelle
- Time shall have revenge
- Write power
- Snatch 7 (come 11)
- The Hangman's Poor Gift
- Love Is A Merchant
- An Indifferent Irishman Signs My Petition
- Depictions of Buddhas knee-deep in angst
- A Shadow on the Summer Sun
- The Drone
- From the discovery of fire to a crypt slash restaurant
- Color
- Blackish by Reason of the Ice
- Twain
- Minnie Mouse Meets Mickey at a Convention of Phrenologists
- Return of the Lost Ones
- There is no such thing as stillness
- Nietzsche
- Who's Chasing You?
- "Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown..."
- Martin
- The Buddha on my Wooden Desk
- "victim"
- Self Recognition in Chelsea
- A Seven-Headed Monster
- Spaghettiad
- The Sextant
- Arcade Encounter
- Necropolitan
- Landing
- Snatch 9 (there's been a time lapse)
- Departure. Arrival. Return.
- Carrying you
- Sail
- Unlucky Star
- Drowning By The Pool
- The Secret Life
- Roman Candles
- Confess another sin
- Lord of the Poets
- Beverly
- Snatch X
- A Thought for Emily's Sleep
- ANYONE but Shakespeare
- Something Else
- My Mother Was a Bluebird - song
- The Man Whose Wife Lived in His Neck
- Your Boredoms
- Play it, Sam
- Late Autumn
- 3 Good Hubcaps - song
- You, Cliché
- The Argument
- ....blue trains running....
- Location
- On Writing
- Clouds to the Makers
- De-MFA-Oscopy Helps Young Writers Overcome Harm of Graduate Degree
- Boredom takes a Snapshot
- Snatch XI
- Between Yoko Ono and a Hard Place
- I'm Never Going Home
- Fragment
- You are not Medusa
- Lucky Faces
- Perchance to Dream
- magnets
- Between Roses and Thorns
- Purveyors of Leeches
- Edward Ogle the Third
- wild gesticulations below a jasmine moon
- quarried
- Pounds of Flesh
- Air On The G String
- Feasts of the Heart
- Prayer
- Gabriel has lost his horn
- Snatch XIII
- Picturing Utrillo
- The tenth point of possession being this... Rev2
- Edward Ogle the fourth
- This Thing
- The Mythology of Rooms
- Frankenstein's Monster Eats the Brains of Virgins at the Witches' Chainsaw Orgy Massacre
- Your Move, Blattarian!
- The lightbulb explodes
- Bird
- a song for the sun
- ...love is just a sundog...
- Fairytale Initiations
- Iowa
- How the Plum Fell, and Not Necessarily Why the Apple Flew
- Humphrey Bogart
- PTSD
- Snapshots I can draw upon to guide myself as a father
- Beyond Steps that Falter
- Dream Life
- Dealing With a Small Box Epidemic All On Our Own
- He Spreadeth Sharp Pointed Things upon the Mire
- Slather
- Unfinished Business
- 1888: Mrs. Sherwood
- 'Til Death Unparted
- Kind-hearted Assassin
- On a Black and White Photography Tour with a Sweetheart of a Ghost on My Arm
- Must Not Be a Working Bird
- Independence, Self-Worth and Happiness
- Every word for love should always be misspelled
- That Being Said
- Preaching to a streetlight
- After getting sober through a bout of Bukowski
- Because
- Rabusongu
- Unfinished thoughts of a convex mind
- The Haunting
- Mirrors/srorriM
- Playlist
- Neruda's Mermaid
- As the Wine Keeps Flowing
- Gone to Seed
- Deep June Pool
- Hygga
- Sisyphus takes the day off
- The Road a Scripture
- When You Love Someone
- Old Fighting Men
- Evensong
- late winter light
- You May Be
- blowing
- I'll find you - A Dedication to Mathew Paust
- Coherence
- white lights
- The Lightning
- Wading
- Apples and Oranges and Apples
- I'll Show You God
- untitled
- Like Father
- cell
- This Story Will Break Your Heart
- American MEOW
- The Pitch
- fork
- Midlife
- No More Little Bridget
- line breaks
- Pain
Emily Sparkles's Contacts
- Keith U.
- Amber G. Christensen
- Darryl Price
- Justin Hamm
- Gary Percesepe
- Josh Spilker
- Savannah Schroll Guz
- Matthew A. Hamilton
- Lance Manion
- Sam Rasnake
- Sam Rasnake
- Samuel Derrick Rosen
- Iain James Robb
- Rachna K.
- J.A. Pak
- Gary Hardaway
- Damion Hamilton
- Gary V. Powell
- Chris Okum
- Alex M. Pruteanu
- Mathew Paust
- J. Fallthrough
- Larry Strattner
- Brenda Bishop Blakey
- Tim G. Young
- C.F. Pierce
- strannikov
- Charlotte Hamrick
- James Claffey
- Shawn Misener
- Kenny Mooney
- Sarah McKinstry-Brown
- Robert Lamb
- Neil McCarthy
- M. F. Sullivan
- Wesley Baines
- James Lloyd Davis
- Ed Higgins
- Philip F. Clark
- Ann Bogle
- Joey Delgado
- Eric Boyd
- Christopher E. Hilliard
- evntho
- Tabatha Stirling
- David James
- Nicholas Cook
- Tide Lake
- Nonnie Augustine
- Dianne McKnight-Warren
- Frankie Saxx
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Emily Sparkles
| Location | Iowa |
| Occupation | Writer & Middle School Teacher |
| Website | http://emilysparkles.com |
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Emily, thank you for the comment and * on cell :) :)
I enjoyed Glowing Inhibition!
Thank you Emily for your thoughtful comments on WINTER IN WAVELAND. I'm touched that you were so moved.
Hi Emily! Thx for the ⭐️
Emily, Thank you for the Resolutions * Giving you something to * is one of my primary goals. Appreciated. LarryS
Hi Emily. You rock!
Thanks for the comment on "Babybonic Plague." I'm still working out some of the rough spots, but I appreciated your encouragement!
Thanks for the "Teeth" * Emily Sparkles Teacher. I appreciate it.
Thanks for reading "Stone Garden"!
Emily, I liked your piece on Boudreau.
thanks for the comment, Emily. I'll look forward to reading your stuff.
Thanks for the kind words, Emily. Always nice to hear from a friend from the Midwest. (Maybe I shouldn't tell you where I'm from; Iowans don't always get along with Minnesotans.)
um--nothing ordinary about the eyes, in that photo--
welcome to here. it is a good place to be.
cheers,
gary
Nice to see you here!
Hi EMILY. Welcome aboard.