Flash Fiction appearing in DOGZPLOT
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Fiction: Driving Toward A Broken Heart
A new short story from Linda Sands.
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Fiction: What Sandra Wants
with the added benefit of one of my favorite books listed a the end.
WHAT SANDRA WANTS
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She wants another woman. She’s not sure which one, but she knows the girl needs to have big tits, because that is what she sees when she’s lying in bed with her husband and the lights are dimmed and she whispers, baby? What are you thinking of, as his hands run over her flabby stomach and she squeezes her own breasts. And he says, dutifully, You Baby. You.
And she wishes he’d…
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Fiction: What Troy Wants
Published online in The Smoking Poet December 17, 2009
What Troy Wants
By Linda Sands
Troy is always asking me to do this, asking me to pose. I feel like that sock puppet that went around the world, passed from place to place, pulled out of suitcases and backpacks, covered in the dirt of continents, only to be propped up against cold stone lions or balanced on precarious ledges.
He tells me to feel the art—that a photograph lives beyond the moment, beyond the room or castle or field in which it’s shot. He says everyone will find something…
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Essays: Holiday Writing Over The Years
I’ve been posting former Christmas Letters.
The old FAMILY ANNUAL REPORT poking fun at all those holiday letters you can’t wait to mock then toss in the fire.
Check it out over here:
http://linda-sands.blogspot.com/
Full Article »Fiction: Flash Fiction Debut in Weirdyear
New Flash Fiction from Linda appears in WeirdYear.
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Fiction: When fire leads to words leads to…
I read a bunch of tragic fire accounts in the newspaper a few years ago after Thanksgiving, and I took notes, clipped photos and generally forgot about them, until I was browsing through my ideas folder and came across them.
One piece I’d written and entered in a spoken word contest, but the others had never really been completed, I think there are about nine total.
I found an interested editor, sent in three to his new journal and they liked them, publishing them immediately.
A wildland fire service organization got hold of the link via Facebook,…
Fiction: Ashes, Ashes…
Three Thanksgiving Day fire stories taken from newspaper accounts.
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Essays: AJC Op-ed column: The New American Dream
Reviving dreams of past would make for a better America
Linda Sands – For the Journal-Constitution
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
I am a proud American woman. I drive my American-made vehicle to overstocked grocery stores, proudly paying extra for American-grown fruits and vegetables. I give to charities that benefit less fortunate Americans, and I raise my children with the hope they will embrace The American Dream, whatever that may mean to them.
My father chose to live his parents’ dream. By the second baby and the third house, Dad’s company settled him in a small…
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Essays: A Holiday Gift From Your Sole
Dec ’02 BigCityLit
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A Holiday Gift From Your Sole
by Linda Sands
Ask any woman. Shoes are more than mere footwear. They are an expression of love, of want, of desire. They can tell you more about a person’s inner life than any other article of clothing on her body. A good shoe can make your day, get you the job, win you a spouse. Yes, the shoe is more than elemental protection, it is karmic destiny. The soul of my sole…
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