Pia Ehrhardt

Thanks for liking my Dry Spell, Pia! Good to see around these parts again...

Thank you for your comment on "Reprisal," Pia. Sometimes I think I crave comments, and I loved yours.

pia!!!

hey. nice to hear from you.

thanks for reading & commenting on that little poem--

cheers, g

Pia, If I could bottle your comments I would sip them in drunken bliss until eternity.

Thank you Pia, for your kind words on "My dad was a Ditchdigger". I try to make my words paint pictures, movies.

That was a particularly lovely comment you made about my "Sage" story. Thanks, Pia!

Thank you.

Thank you for reading and commenting on My Early Thirties, Pia. I look forward to reading your work and I promise I will. Nonnie

Hi Pia. Thanks for reading and commenting on Pretend.

Thanks for the kind words on "Thirst" Pia. It was the first time I ever tried to write a micro, so I'm glad the risk paid off.

Thanks Pia for commenting on my "Things I Didn't Do This Year" piece. I'm flattered that you liked the structure. The reminder of how hard it is to write true sentences.

Love your comment on "Annulling the Future." Thanks, Pia!

[Speaker could be a man or a woman, but probably a man since the speaker is so bothered by her "multiple lovers." I wrote the poem as an allegory, but many so people are reading "that bride" as a real person perhaps "the maid of weaponized affection" needs to be heard from too!

Thank you for finding me and favoring The Miracle of My Father's Hat. Your comment was beautiful and I wrote something back . Then I read Ambulance and was blown away. A comment there, too. I look forward to reading more of your fine writing.

Thanks, Pia, for your comprehensive take on "Express." Mostly it's nice to see your work back here, setting a standard we'd all love to live up to.

Thanks, Pia, for giving me your time as a reader for my story "Virginia from Lungs, 1998." I so appreciate that and it means a great deal to me.

Pia, thanks so much for reading Deer and for your generous comments. You've given me insights on the piece that I was not consciously aware of, and I am very grateful

Pia -- Thanks for your close read of Routine and your comment. So glad you liked that one; I really wanted it to pack a punch. Your Spill is with me still -- can I share it with others? Everyone should read that piece. Very good to meet you here, Pia.

Thank you, Pia. There's a Dickie's jacket somewhere in my own closet, but my wife doesn't speak Spanish.

Pia, Thanks so much for your note about "The Celebrity." Father Chaos is alive and well, as far as I know. I have written several tales in which he has a role. A book? You think?

Pia, thanks for all the great stories over the years, and a special thank you for the links to Hem. It's like a soundtrack for the new year for me.

Hi Pia, I loved your story, "A Man," in Spork 4.3. It's great to find more of your writing on this site! I'm looking forward to reading your short story collection.

I read your story in New Sudden Fiction. My high school students love it, too. Love it. Love it. How'd you get such a unique name-your own, I mean.

Hi Pia: Just wanted to thank you for reading my stuff and for your thoughtful words. And thank you for putting your own wonderful writing up. I suspect I'm not the only one here who revisits your stories regularly! Lauren

I know! I will. I must.....

I was so excited to read your story "Following The Notes" in the NEW SUDDEN FICTION collection. As always, it was a terrific read. The tension between the narrator and father, the father and mother, and the triangle of father, mother, and daughter was palpable. I felt such a pang at the end, at the daughter's efforts to bring some light to the father's misery/his sense of being "dumped." It brought back so many memories. I had that sense of truth, that "yes, that's just how it was" that's as painful as it is illuminating. Thank you.

Your words about my story, Mars, made my day--a day otherwise bleak in just about every other aspect. So thank you.

I also wanted to tell you that "Intermediate Goals" was one of my favorite stories I've read in quite awhile. I'm surprised more people don't mention it their reviews of "Famous Fathers." Or maybe I have atypical taste? The character voice is so strong. And the absurdity of walking around in a bear costume, getting hooked on both the anonymity and the attention of that. And then that heartbreaking moment where the narrator finally says something in her own words, but her ex doesn't realize, because this moment of honesty is so unusual for her, almost like the boy who cried wolf ...you give good ending.

Hi Pia: Thanks for your kind words re: "Erase." Just read "Ambulance" and was blown away. Add me to your long list of fans ...

Pia, thanks so much for your comments. Coming from you, they meant a lot. Happy New Year!

Hi Pia,

Famous Fathers and Other Stories cracked me up. I like your use of "all" followed by an adjective. I confess to using it in one of my essays.

I'm a fellow Narrative-ite. And I too was born on May 6th. So was Bob Seger.

Hi, Pia! I'm good. Busy writing et al. And You? Do you happen to be in NYC? I'm going up Wednesday with my friend Jen who's going to read with Tao Lin, somewhere in Brooklyn.

Hail to thee, dear Pia! Thanks and praise for inviting me in. Seriously mon ami -- this place is spacious and beautiful and exciting. Plus, I am loving those photos of you and your sisters. I wish I could zoom in. Or zoom back. I guess that's what stories