marriage
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Alone is not a dirty word, y’all. Be a Rogue Planet – why not?
Where have I been? Why, I’ve been here, there, and yonder! I’ve been working on my new novel. I’ve been editing other writers’ books and novels. I’ve been working on Edge of Arlington website. I was asked to be a regular contributor to Writer Unboxed (poor thangs – they don’t know what they did –… Continue reading
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This old marriage thang: When Kat has the little log house to herse’f
GMR just returned from a trip to South Louisiana–Baton Rouge & Paulina–where he visited with friends from his high school days at Fortier HS in New Orleans, and even more important, where he saw for the first time his son’s new baby Ian Paul. Now between us we have four grandkids! I wasn’t able to… Continue reading
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Does the marriage between writer-character & reader-writer come between a real-life marriage?
“Only in books can you be married to them all.” –James Salter At a party, a woman tells me how she has decided my husband is a saint, and I’d better never ever complain about him. I say, “Huh? What do you mean by that?” “He puts up with your craziness; he cooks you dinner.” She sniffs. “And,… Continue reading
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Scene from a Marriage: A Fairly Fair Fairy Story by Queen Kat Magendie
Once upon a time, in a land up high, there lived a Queen. This Queen’s King was on a trip to a mysteriously eerie swamp-land of his birth called South Louisiana (pronounced: “South Loose-ee-an-uh). Well, whilst the King was away, the High-Hillbilly-born Queen danced and sang, for there were no King’s cooking fingerprints upon the… Continue reading
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Scenes from a Marriage: Morning
Eyes open. Heave out of bed. Feet in slippers. Coffee pot turned on to grind beans and start brewing process. Me makes up bed while GMR puts seed out for birds/squirrels. Wash face . . . etc. There is a dance and rhythm to the morning. Me and GMR want to get to that pot… Continue reading
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In the Car: Scene from a Marriage
Me: OMG! Watch out! You’ll hit that squirrel! GMR: It’ll move out of the way. Me: but what if it doesn’t? You didn’t even slow down! What if it isn’t paying attention and you run it over . . . GMR: It didn’t; look, it’s running off. Me: But you COULD have run over it… Continue reading
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Vomitus americanus & a man a woman and a marriage
I’m going to Re-Blog from a post that I’d written from my MSN blog, before I began my Tender Graces/Virginia Kate Sagas blog. I’m not there much, at Howling from my Mountain. I wrote nature-inspired themes a lot. I wrote about how I was in a play (Bat Boy The Musical). I started a “novel… Continue reading
About Kathryn Magendie
Author of 5 published novels & other this and that novellas and stories, Editor, Edge of Arlington Content Editor.