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Alan Reed

(Age: 63)
Texas, United States
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Date Joined: April 22, 2009
Last Bio Update: January 15, 2013
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I began writing in the third grade. In fact, Mrs. Gladder gave me an A that year on a short story writing assignment. It came out like this: A parrot can squawk, even talk and easily fly away. But when a cat comes along and acts very strong it doesn't know what to say. A retired foreign service officer, I have been writing evaluations, reports and position papers for about 25 years. When my USG-speak started to read like some respectable creative writing class submissions, I began to treasure time I had - dancing with my grandfather's Underwood. "Playing with words" became just that. About 10 years ago I began to use, bend and break all the rules outlined by Strunk and White in their "Elements of Style". To my surprise, I started to achieve "The Zone" once in awhile. Soon after I was cited as having submitted one of the most novel, to the point, fun-to-read award nominations for a staff member, I looked to try to enter it "The Zone" whenever I could. Also, I learned to get lost in time while writing. "The Zone" became my court, my shangri-la. I felt an adrenalin push when I tried to capture thoughts, images and feelings on paper. It was not easy - and it still is not. When my peers and family began asking for more I smiled inside and said to myself: why not share some of this crap with others? So -- good luck. =air



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Books
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76 18+ 07-11-09 1050 Ice Blue - or - Random Meanderings of a Manic Depressive
Stories
Custom Ages Date Hits Praise Title
  16+ 01-28-13 158 Bad Karma
Sailor Moon Notes
Custom Ages Date Hits Praise Title
  13+ 10-22-10 423 Antibiotics
Recipes
Custom Ages Date Hits Praise Title
  4+ 05-13-11 255 Grilled Pleasure
Poetry
Custom Ages Date Hits Praise Title
  10+ 05-19-13 46 These People Who Love Me
  13+ 04-20-13 67 Wherever You Are
  13+ 04-15-13 57 Forgive The Mirror
  13+ 04-07-13 47 A Girl Named Luna
  18+ 01-21-13 151 An Old Black Underwood
  13+ 01-21-13 93 Silly - a limerick
  16+ 01-17-13 121 In The Night
  4+ 12-27-12 116 Caribbean
  4+ 11-28-12 134 Some Days
Yes   7+ 11-04-12 124 Let The Rain Come
Poetry
Custom Ages Date Hits Praise Title
  10+ 10-15-12 190 Sojourn
  13+ 10-08-12 152 te quiero
Yes   13+ 09-29-12 205 Someone Else's Angel
Yes   4+ 09-04-12 209 You Promised
Yes   13+ 05-26-12 169 The Other Girl
Yes   10+ 05-18-12 245 Swaying Treetops
Yes   10+ 04-18-12 243 Sun Spots
Yes   10+ 03-26-12 210 And in the Tide Pools
Yes   7+ 02-04-12 343 My Book!
Yes   10+ 11-14-11 525 Lace of Time
Yes   13+ 10-28-11 375 Blue Indigo Flashing
Yes   10+ 10-26-11 680 Wrong Turn Song
Yes   7+ 10-22-11 368 Love's Game
Yes   16+ 09-22-11 392 Troy Davis: Innocent, but Executed (09/2011)
Yes   10+ 07-24-11 716 Golf Bones
Yes   10+ 07-20-11 601 Wind Bells
Yes   7+ 06-05-11 334 June Bugs and Willow Twigs
Yes   13+ 05-27-11 362 Home of the Rising Sons
Yes   10+ 04-19-11 517 Four Leaf Clover
Yes   13+ 04-14-11 713 Trillergy
  13+ 04-11-10 498 Ashes to Ashes
Yes   7+ 10-07-09 473 senryu - Prose and Poetry
Yes   7+ 09-20-09 463 Goblins and Ghouls
  16+ 09-10-09 376 One Happy Clam
  7+ 06-25-09 1059 Idiot - (Acrostic) I Don't Infer Often Times
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