Sue Hollister Barr

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Dropping Dead

Carol
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Carol Kirkpatrick, possibly the brightest writer I ever met in a writing group (proof positive being her ability to scribble out a pithy, brilliantly crafted story on the spot) had the additional charm of treating me to an oral history of Brooklyn whenever we walked its streets together.  My hope…

Punishing Parameters

Carol
Carol Kirkpatrick, possibly the brightest writer I ever met in a writing group (proof positive being her ability to scribble out a pithy, brilliantly crafted story on the spot) had the additional charm of treating me to an oral history of Brooklyn whenever we walked its streets together.  Combining warmth,…

Raucous Res

Other Stuff
Married with children.  Closeted in a predictable, somewhat sterile, suburbia. It was a sudden overabundance of dental bills that pushed me over the edge. I’d been living off the father of my children for a very long time.  My youngest child had finally entered school, ending my excuse to pursue…

Dad’s Dementia

Aging
It started with his complaining that he was forgetting names. I pooh-poohed it, pointing out that I was 30 years younger and I never remembered people’s names. In retrospect I shouldn’t have used myself as a yardstick. My dad had spent his life working with large groups of people whose…

Ridiculous Rating

Reviews
Total Recall (2012) I’ve always loved imdb.com but their 6.2-out-of-10 rating for the 2012 version of Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell and Bokeem Woodbine, is nothing short of criminal.  This brilliantly inventive, supremely high-octane, sci fi film deserves no less than…and I’m being conservative here…an 11.  The world-building alone, with…

Senior Statesmen

General Rantings
Senior Statesmen…not!  Would that the two bickering children I beheld on June 27th…who I can only forgive because both of these senior citizens have obviously lost it one way or another…could even be described as gentlemen! Given my own age, I am…whether you like it or not…claiming the right to…

Idiotic Intelligence

Flash Fiction
My calling this fiction is, tragically, a bit of a stretch… “But I’m holding the letter I received today in my hand!  At first I thought, when I started getting these letters, that it was a scam, an attempt to get me to call some bogus number and give my…

Two Titillations

Reviews
Not too long ago…as a former acquisitions editor for a literary agency…I searched for some promising beginnings in books of all genres for a special promotion.  My rejection-vs.-acceptance rate was about 25 rejected for each one I accepted, and I didn’t allow myself to be swayed by the opinions of…

Pubescent Putin

Guest Posts
My brother Maury…a talented poet and writer whose books are available here and whose far-more-tasteful-than-mine website is maurybarr.com…has said what, it could be argued, no woman could get away with saying without censure: Headline: Antisatellite Nuclear Weapon Oh, your smile! It’s Mr. Crafty! What are you doing? Put your pecker…

According Ability

General Rantings
We all know Karl Marx’ words:  “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”  He (who, in the 19th century, only considered he/him folk worthy of discussion) was talking about the division of a particular society’s assets.  I (who, in the 21st century, only very recently…
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