Stories by Gita M. Smith

Our Kodak Moment 2139 views
Roadside Attraction 1625 views
Better Boys, Early Girls 1762 views
Sparrow Down 1762 views
The Counter Where Names Go To Die 1408 views
Lying to the Boss 1474 views
One Poem, Eight Rejections 1891 views
Bring Me His Head 1614 views
Laces 1626 views
Unwanted Stories: A Public Service Advisory 1563 views
A Gardener in February Thinks About June 1386 views
Tiny Dancer 1461 views
Any poem is possible 1347 views
Fear Us, Oh Yes. 1343 views
A Brief Conversation With A Man Who Fell Off a Cliff 1209 views
The Day After Falling in Love 1666 views
Why I Don't Write Sex Scenes Anymore 1617 views
Falling Man 1632 views
The Gospel According to Teeny 1448 views
Amy-Loyd Plax 1292 views
Signs and Wonders 1302 views
Displacing Charles the Bald 1643 views
Story Board 1137 views
Love Songs for Kandahar 1719 views
Baby of the Family 1349 views
The Cicada's Complaint 989 views
Secrets and Piles of Money 1206 views
Bootsy Goes on a Bender 1332 views
My Anonymous Career 1484 views
Writer's Envy 1320 views
The Rare Air on Planet Teeny 1361 views
Right and Wrong 1421 views
Precisely 918 views
Why the Woodpecker Laughs 1226 views
Mobiles 1086 views
Glory at the Motel 6 1376 views
Six Tiny Memories 1188 views
Police Mistakenly Release Murderer: An Analysis 1271 views
Her Dream Princes 1471 views
Husks 1466 views
Home Health Care 1340 views
Abecedarian inspired by Bill Yarrow 1172 views
Do I hear Ten Thousand? 1215 views
Never Been Down to Lonely Street 1664 views
The Late Show at the Argo 1813 views
Death Pays a Visit But Fucks Up 1823 views
The Death App 1605 views
Maritzer's Axiom 1435 views
Kissing In a Warm Car 1028 views
Diplomatic Relations 1266 views
A Certain Boy 1649 views
Divorcing Delia 1209 views
Liquids 1230 views
An Observant Man 1701 views
Seascape 1366 views
The Code of Hammurabi 1129 views
The Ghosts of History 1217 views
Lipstick in the Kitchen 1230 views
The Small Blue House 1206 views
The First Fifth 954 views
Having Read the Poems of Matt Dennison 1435 views
The Late, Late Show 1193 views
Hattie Hanratty Does the Previously Unthinkable 1398 views
In the wee small hours 1220 views
Yakkety-Yak 1368 views
The Man Who Couldn't Speak His Love 1332 views
Tornado Diary 1556 views
Grand Theft Auto (a true story) 1201 views
Without A Trace 1606 views
A Good Wife 1618 views
A Conversation With a Ghost 1232 views
The Goldsmith's Anniversary 1271 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.