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Are You Ready? A One-Act Play

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You are so beautiful, California, to me

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her last day — a poem

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In the wake of Sonoma County's horrific firestorms, a poem

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THE DOG RUNS ON, a poem for Alex Nieto

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Meet Dianalee Velie, poet extraordinaire

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It Happens

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Gleaming: a 100-word story

Day after day he winds blackberry vines around paperbacks, doorknobs, French fries, shoes—everything he can touch.

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Jean Wong: A fetching mix of depth and humor

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So Beautiful – complete story

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So Beautiful – Part 4

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So Beautiful – Part 3

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So Beautiful — Part 2

She won’t force Coco to eat, for the babe is plump and rosy-cheeked—unlike Jason who was born premature at 28 weeks. His first two years were a rash of incisions, tubes, monitors and transfusions.

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So Beautiful

She wants a magic elixir so Arturo, her true love, can return to her, so they can make love from dusk to dawn in a tent on a far off beach, no worries about what the future will bring. She wants a potion to take her back—if only for a day—so she can race full tilt down the sidewalk to catch a streetcar and know in that moment exactly how beautiful she is.