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I AM an AUTHOR, salesman, optimist, dreamer: May the four always COHABIT & produce wondrous progeny. IN THE SWIRLING POOL OF LIFE, I'm an unflushable floater.

Bakersfield, California
Joined March 2011
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BREAKING: Gabby Giffords’ organization files huge federal suit against the NRA, accusing it of using shell companies to illegally funnel $35 million in campaign contributions to major Republican campaigns like Trump’s, Josh Hawley’s, & Ron Johnson’s. RT IF YOU SUPPORT THIS SUIT!
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this cover photo is SO SPOOKY
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Brilliant short piece! đź’™
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#RT #memoir #Tribute The Many Lives We Never Lived — In Honor of My Father by Sajina Ignatius medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… The memoir of the loss of a father--one that was difficult to experience and harder to write about. #RT
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#RT Panama Red Arrives from the Earth by John Levin medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… This has to be the most authentically written love letter ever written to the history of R & B, Jazz & early rock by someone who shared their sheets. Thanks, Panama Red! #RT
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#RT #prompt I’m a Cooking Comeback Queen Making My Way to Love in the Kitchen by @AimeeGramblin medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… Some cooks were born with a silver skillet in there hands, & then there's Aimee. Come join her in her not so illustrious climb. #RT
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#Rt #poetry I Feel America Grieving by @susannahmackin1 medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… When we are all grieving in our own way and any direction we take for change is fraught with bitter opposition, this empathic poet reverts to her only constant: kindness. #RT
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#RT #poetry #tanka Painted Faces by @galibirkphd medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… The things we can learn from the mind of a child. #RT
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#RT #Prompt That Nectar by Priyanka Srivastava medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… How cooking soothes the pangs of homesickness. #RT
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#RT #Microfiction Game Over by @Chirag27226694 medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… Medium readers across the world are falling in love with that scamp, always engaged in a battle of wits with his Dad. #RT
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#RT #prompt Village of Chefs by @wall_camille medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… It's often been said a poem should be read aloud. With this one, you get a little help. At the end of the poem you're allowed to experience all the nuances in the poet's own voice. #RT
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#RT #Poem #depression Dark Siege by Greg Barber medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… Depression and the relentless onslaught of hell's armies on the mind. #RT
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#RT #poetry #prompt A Hearty Stew by Randy Rather medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… Wait'll you see what this poet puts in his hearty stew! #RT
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#RT #poetry #REBIRTH The Womb by Bingz Huang medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… It takes time to be reborn. And a safe place for its alchemy. #RT
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Thanks Jay! ❤️
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Scary tales in the dark. #horror #Halloween
#RT #poem #creepshow Creepy Campfire Tales by @susannahmackin1 medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… is creeping up to the campfire, listening to the tales you tell? #RT
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So honored to be named by @Medium #GiaB a Genius for September fiction writing. #WritingCommunity #FictionFriday #flashfiction #medium #GeniusInABottle #amwriting #microfiction
#RT #GiaB #Awards I just published The Geniuses of September Awards Banquet medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… If you've never been to a "Genius of the Month Awards banquet" in the flesh, here's the next best thing. #RT
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My 6-Year-Old’s Past Life by Bingz Huang medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… Yes! This shorty reminds me of the Zen Master's pithy koan he gives to his disciple and like a slap in the face it brings about spiritual emancipation.
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Falling for the Falls by Melissa Speed medium.com/genius-in-a-bottl… Check out this great response to the 2nd GiaB Prompted writing challenge “It’s Natural to Wonder” … Melissa Speed's “Falling For the Falls.”
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