Stories by Gita M. Smith

Our Kodak Moment 2150 views
Roadside Attraction 1641 views
Better Boys, Early Girls 1772 views
Sparrow Down 1772 views
The Counter Where Names Go To Die 1422 views
Lying to the Boss 1499 views
One Poem, Eight Rejections 1901 views
Bring Me His Head 1627 views
Laces 1637 views
Unwanted Stories: A Public Service Advisory 1576 views
A Gardener in February Thinks About June 1399 views
Tiny Dancer 1478 views
Any poem is possible 1359 views
Fear Us, Oh Yes. 1365 views
A Brief Conversation With A Man Who Fell Off a Cliff 1239 views
The Day After Falling in Love 1678 views
Why I Don't Write Sex Scenes Anymore 1627 views
Falling Man 1644 views
The Gospel According to Teeny 1457 views
Amy-Loyd Plax 1308 views
Signs and Wonders 1316 views
Displacing Charles the Bald 1650 views
Story Board 1161 views
Love Songs for Kandahar 1735 views
Baby of the Family 1361 views
The Cicada's Complaint 995 views
Secrets and Piles of Money 1216 views
Bootsy Goes on a Bender 1341 views
My Anonymous Career 1497 views
Writer's Envy 1333 views
The Rare Air on Planet Teeny 1370 views
Right and Wrong 1436 views
Precisely 930 views
Why the Woodpecker Laughs 1238 views
Mobiles 1094 views
Glory at the Motel 6 1391 views
Six Tiny Memories 1203 views
Police Mistakenly Release Murderer: An Analysis 1282 views
Her Dream Princes 1479 views
Husks 1479 views
Home Health Care 1350 views
Abecedarian inspired by Bill Yarrow 1184 views
Do I hear Ten Thousand? 1227 views
Never Been Down to Lonely Street 1683 views
The Late Show at the Argo 1830 views
Death Pays a Visit But Fucks Up 1832 views
The Death App 1615 views
Maritzer's Axiom 1448 views
Kissing In a Warm Car 1036 views
Diplomatic Relations 1282 views
A Certain Boy 1659 views
Divorcing Delia 1219 views
Liquids 1244 views
An Observant Man 1715 views
Seascape 1382 views
The Code of Hammurabi 1144 views
The Ghosts of History 1234 views
Lipstick in the Kitchen 1247 views
The Small Blue House 1215 views
The First Fifth 964 views
Having Read the Poems of Matt Dennison 1448 views
The Late, Late Show 1204 views
Hattie Hanratty Does the Previously Unthinkable 1407 views
In the wee small hours 1233 views
Yakkety-Yak 1379 views
The Man Who Couldn't Speak His Love 1343 views
Tornado Diary 1574 views
Grand Theft Auto (a true story) 1216 views
Without A Trace 1622 views
A Good Wife 1633 views
A Conversation With a Ghost 1244 views
The Goldsmith's Anniversary 1281 views

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Gita M. Smith

Location	The Deep South
Occupation	journalist/writing instructor
Website	http://ohfinejustfine.blogspot.com/

About Me

Noir is about flawed people, more than anything else, I think. We may write about them sympathetically or unsympathetically, but the trick is letting the reader in on the flaws. Then, we tell where those flaws lead our characters. Or maybe what I've just said applies to all fiction.

I am a journalist who has covered much of the deep South. As such, I have run into people whose deeds and thoughts read like fiction. What a delightful life!

Why do you write?

"Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poems." -- Mark Strand

In other words, I write because it makes me happy.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Omnivorous reader, currently recommend short stories by Tim Gautreaux, E. Annie Proulx and T.C. Boyle.