Haiku: Summer Vacation

May 26, 2012 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

The hot summer wind

Blows through the empty campus

He feels young again

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Hello, everyone!  It’s the Old Soldier here feeling nostalgic after a nice long walk earlier this afternoon through the campus of the University of Pittsburgh.

The campus was like a ghost town.  Well, school is out for the summer and it is Saturday and it is the Memorial Day weekend.  And Memorial Day brings back memories, too, for the Old Soldier, of a nineteen-year-old kid on his way to the Vietnam War.

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But that’s all behind me.  Now I’m retired and the editor/publisher of the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette.  And if you like my little blog, why don’t you click the follow button so that you won’t miss a single issue of the most dynamic flash fiction magazine on the Internet.

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Poetry: 4AM Call by Shan Jeniah Burton

May 5, 2012 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

The phone rang at 4am. 

“I’m NOT answering!” I glared.
 
Yesterday’s crackling anger still stung.
 
Phone insisted; stopped.
 
Too much time passed.
 
More…
 
Knocking; frantic barking.  Sheriff at  our door.
 
“He’s being medflighted..”
 
My trembling arms embraced our children.
 
The End
 
Bio: Shan Jeniah lives a chaotically peaceful life in rural upstate NY with her best friend and husband, Jim;two exuberant homeschooled children; a pit-bull mix; and a Manx cat.  Writing and learning are as vital to her as breathing. Submitting is a little less frightening than skydiving.  Her writer blog is shanjeniah  at www.shanjeniah.com.
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Poetry: Until Morning by Linda A. Long

March 9, 2012 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette
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Wake up
Wake up
I need to talk to you
Hurry up
It will be morning soon
I have something to say to you
Please wake up
Do you hear me?
I am talking to you
I need to tell you
I love you
I didn’t say it before
But, I must say it now
It must be free
The burden of not saying it
is too heavy to carry anymore
I must say it
Can you hear me?
Whispering in your dreams
I meet you
I lay my body against yours
And, softly kiss your lips
With love
My hand folded in yours
In a moment in time
In twilight
My heart needs to
See
Hear
Taste
Touch
You
Under the blanket of stars
Rest your weary thoughts
On my breasts
And take peace between my legs
You are loved
Sweet dreams my love
I will return tomorrow night
And lay with you
Together
We lay in love
Until morning comes
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My love for words started when I was a young girl and I wrote my first poem. Since that day words have flowed through me like a river. I feel very bless to have this gift. I find I am most inspired to write erotic literature.  I read “Delta of Venus” as a teenager; Anais Nin has been very influential in my life.  Since then writing sensual is my niche. It’s important to accept yourself as you are and find what is right for your life. My blogs are mostly reflective and come out of my own life experience. I don’t offer advice. That’s for professionals. I only share my experiences and hope maybe someone can gain just a grain of inspiration or encouragement through them.
 
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Haiku: Suddenly

February 25, 2012 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

Ice and snow and wind

No comfort for these old bones

Mild winter come back

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Suddenly it’s winter again in Pittsburgh.  I mean real winter.  Well, we’ve been lucky this year and the official start of spring is only 24 days away.  The Old Soldier won’t be going out for any long walks today, not unless my pension check from Giant Eagle arrives by snail mail.  Sometimes the check comes early but it’s really not due until the first of every month.

I’m content.  I’m sober.  I’ve got plenty to read and plenty to eat and I’ve already done my breathing and stretching exercises.

And I have more time to do some blogging.

*****

Winter morning

Winter morning (Photo credit: blmiers2)

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Haiku: Friday Night

February 24, 2012 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

No karaoke

Just old movies on tv

Bright Lights, Big City

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Writing haikus is great training for a flash fiction writer.  Each haiku tells a story.  You get in.  You get out.  That’s what it’s all about.

It’s around 10:30 at night and the Old Soldier has taken up his favorite position: stretched out on the sofa with two fat pillows under his weary head.  The retro-movie channel is on television.  I have my books on the Vietnam War, on Occupy Wall Street and on Columbus to keep me company.  And there is plenty of ice water and several cans of some energy drink in the refrigerator to quench my thirst.

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No money for beer until next week.  Sobriety is good discipline.

I did have my fish fry today.  I ate a delicious fish sandwich and put the rest of the cooked fish in the refrigerator for another day.

I think I’ll go to bed early.

*****

Oh, the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette has over 5,800 hits for February and we still have five days left in this month.

You can’t beat that with a stick!

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Haiku: A Late Winter

February 8, 2012 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

Snow flakes slide sideways

The apartment is quiet

Soon karaoke

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The Old Soldier has assumed his favorite position for jotting this down in his small pocket notebook: stretched out on the sofa with two fat pillows under his weary head.

The day’s work is just about done: breathing and stretching exercises, breakfast dishes put away, this is my third post for the day and I have a load of clothes in the laundry room downstairs.

Beyond my windows a light snow falls.  The bare branches of the trees are powdered with white snow.  I look forward to karaoke tonight at Del’s Bar and Italian Restaurant in Bloomfield (Little Italy).

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Yes, the Old Soldier is in a mood of reflection.  It is the 8th of February and the PFF Gazette is averaging better than 225 hits every day.  Getting more than 6,000 hits for February is a real possibility.

*****

Remember, I am always eager to showcase flash fiction writing talent.  I publish mainstream, literary and erotic fiction.  The Submissions tab is at the top of the page.

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Read.  Study.  Write.

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The Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette is a news magazine about writing and female sexuality.

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Haiku: Sex And Parents

January 16, 2012 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

Sperm splatters your breasts

We laugh then listen closely…

The kids home from school

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The Old Soldier has studied poetry and haiku to see what he could learn that would help him become a better flash fiction writer.

Hello hello hello, my brother and sister bloggers, readers, writers and Flash Fiction Fanatics.  The Old Soldier is just chillin’ on this overcast day in Pittsburgh.  Not much going on right now.  It’s around 4:00 PM. 

I’ll drink a few beers and read some more about Hunter S. Thompson and then watch the evening news on public television.

If you are a flash fiction short story writer, send me something.  I’d like to see it.  The Submissions tab is at the top of the page. 

PS You do not have to write about sex.

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Poetry: I Want To Eat Your Pussy

December 31, 2011 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

Your eyes follow me

I suck on your clitoris

Soon comes your first moan

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The Old Soldier thought he would end the year with a haiku and a salute to women.

How’s everyone doing?  It’s around noon in Pittsburgh.  The Old Soldier does not do the New Year’s Eve party routine.  Too many crazy people.  So, I’m going to go out for a six-pack of beer, come back and eat, do a little blogging and see if there is anything good on television.  Plus I have a couple of good books to read that I checked out from the public library.

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Last night was not so good.  There was no karaoke at Sonny’s Tavern and the DJ at Del’s could not get the words up on the monitor.  So I left.

I did pass out some Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette business cards at Sonny’s to two guys.  But waking up this morning I realized that I should be passing out business cards to women.  Women like the PFF Gazette’s mixture of serious writing and brazen sexuality.  Women make up the majority of the readers of this magazine.  There is also another reason.  Some time in 2012 I want to start featuring nude women of Pittsburgh in the PFF Gazette.

So when I pass out a business card to a woman I not only get a potential reader and guest writer.  I also get a potential nude model.

Read.  Study.  Write.

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Poetry: December Rain

December 20, 2011 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

şeref sisThe computer screen…

The refrigerator hum…

          Wet pavement outside

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I phoned the Matriarch earlier today and she said my brother Lloyd is at the airport.  He flew in from Palo Alto, California.  The Matriarch lives with my older sister in Greensburg, about 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh.  Sis was the one who told me that I might be eligible for a military pension.  Bless her.  Sis still looking out for her baby brother.  That military pension has changed my life.  Her husband is a Korean War veteran.  He drove out to meet Lloyd at the airport.  Lloyd will stay with Sis while he is in Pittsburgh during the holidays.  I can’t wait to see him.  Lloyd knows about the magazine.

Every time I post something on the PFF Gazette it’s published on my Facebook account.  I wonder if Sis has ever taken a look at this magazine  Sis doesn’t have a Facebook account but The Matriarch is a Facebook friend of mine; but it was one of my nieces that set up her account.  So, if Sis has seen the magazine she’s said nothing to me about it and The Matriarch doesn’t use her Facebook account.

But that’s okay.  I’m 65 years old.  And to be totally honest with you, I feel that the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette is a unique experiment in serious writing combined with brazen sexuality.

That makes me proud.

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The flash fiction Submissions tab is at the top of the page.

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Poetry: Secrets by Susan Dale

December 12, 2011 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette
 
 
Something known only in darkness
It fills the spaces within
To sorrow of itself

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I hold a word deep
I wouldn’t want anyone to hear it
Within my heart
For all my life

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Eyes rising to the surface see it
Ears listen to space
It runs with tears
Through my veins

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Murmurs seen in lamplight
Spoken to the four corners
Of a solitary room
Hush on the threshold
The sound
As of sanctity 

 
The End

Bio: Susan writes regularly for print magazine, WestWard Quarterly, Pegasus and Hudson View. Online she has poems and fiction on Eastown Fiction, Tryst 3, Word Salad, and Pens On Fire to name a few. In 2007, she won the grand prize for
poetry from Oneswan. She had a chapbook on http://languageandculture.net and her chapbook Bending the Spaces of Time: she was runner up in a chapbook contest on
Shadow Poetry, and won first prize in JMW poetry contest with Sleep and the Way It Dreams. 

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