literature – Page 19

Available

Published on January 23, 2016February 3, 2016 by Noreen LaceLeave a comment

Before my mother drank herself to death…..

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Apro-Poe

Published on January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 by Noreen LaceLeave a comment

Happy Birthday, Mr. Poe!

To one of the first, authentically American literary voices. Inspiration, then and now, for artists, writers, creators.

Maybe I should have dedicated my book to him – posthumously – that is.

But I think it is some sort of fancy coincidence, fate, luck, whatever you want to call it – that my book, West End, has been released on this, his 207th Birthday.

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West End has been “officially” released. I’m told it won’t be in bookstores – online or in person – for 3-5 days. OH THE WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART (yes, I think Tom Petty liked Poe too!)

West End

Published on January 17, 2016January 17, 2016 by Noreen LaceLeave a comment

A Sneak Peek from _West End_

Published on January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 by Noreen LaceLeave a comment

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As a child, I watched a squirrel crawl along an electrical line, elegant, delicate, like some high wire act, yet gone terribly wrong when it slipped and fell before my eyes.

A motorist passed, hit it. The squirrel screeched human sounds, jumped up on back feet, front paws stretched out, stumbled left, then right.

“It’s a dead end.” Mother’s whispered words lifted with a breeze.

“It’s the West End.” My father leaned away from her.

I held my breath, rooted for the squirrel until the very end, hoped that the car missed and, somehow, the creature might’ve a chance to limp home to recover.

But the squirrel was, life was, inextricably lost.

“Same thing,” mother’s quiet voice floated off with her gaze.

I think of that eye bulging from the squirrel’s body, trying to escape its own death, watching me through the back window of an old Chevy wagon.

Novella – Coming soon!

Published on January 6, 2016January 6, 2016 by Noreen LaceLeave a comment

Kids. Trains. Alcohol.

brick west end Coming out this month!

Lecture on Poe

Published on August 31, 2015August 31, 2015 by Noreen LaceLeave a comment

I’ve been asked to give a lecture on Edgar Allen Poe at a local Library. If you have questions, contact Caroline Russom at 818.225.7616 ext: 756

It’ll cover some history, as well as the effect he and his writing has had on literature on society. If you’re close, come and listen.

TBT – One of my favorite stories

Published on August 27, 2015 by Noreen LaceLeave a comment

All the Beautiful People – Published in the Avatar Review

Have a beautiful Day!

The Kiss and a new facebook page!

Published on August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 by Noreen LaceLeave a comment

Pilcrow & Dagger’s August/September Issue is available for preview.

As well – my facebook author page is just being put together.

Thanks all!

Kisses

Published on August 10, 2015August 19, 2015 by Noreen LaceLeave a comment

My Poem

– The Kiss –

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will be published in the August/September issue of Pilcrow and Dagger

Where the Poet Roams

Published on July 24, 2015July 24, 2015 by Noreen LaceLeave a comment

Dark, dirty streets live in my mind
broken brick alleyways,
the color of blood in the midnight.
Streetlamps from another era
fasten me here for a short while.
The warm stickiness of old city grime,
it’s endless, never removed.
And I wonder,
Is this how it’s done?
Where the last step of a Jazz duo lay,
where the putrid decay of the dirty city lives?
Where words are scrawled across the walls in warm blood,
Is this where you find the poem?

Or just the poet,
looking?

Eeks, one of my first published poems; it appeared in Directions magazine about twenty years ago.