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[Monica Poling]

Thanks for dropping by. We're really glad you've joined us and we're looking forward to getting to know you.

Notes:

When you make your initial introduction, go ahead and create a "new topic" for yourself, instead of getting lost in the shuffle by replying to someone else's greeting.

Also, please limit your commercials (about your books, websites, etc.) and mostly include them in your signature file.

Cheers.

Monica

[RonPrice]

Have not dropped in for many a moon from Tasmania in these middle years(65-75) of late adulthood(60-80). If I last to old age(80++), I will continue to drop in.-Ron...P.S. Here is a little piece or prose-poetry below for your coffers. It's about a local fellow, a Tasmanian, now dead--and an integration of his life into mine..---
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ERROL FLYNN AND TRUE HISTORY

Errol Flynn, an Australian-born film actor, was popular for his romantic roles in Hollywood films and also for his flamboyant lifestyle. Flynn was born in Hobart Tasmania 100 years ago today, on 20 June 1909 and I write this prose-poem as a sort of quasi-eulogistic, personal reminiscence, personal reflection on Flynn, my life and our respective ways and beliefs. He was born three months after the wooden casket containing the sacred remains of the Báb were placed in a marble sarcophagus in Haifa Israel inside what is now the Shrine of the Báb. Flynn died the day, or perhaps it was the week, that I joined the Bahá'í Faith, the religion which the Báb had come to announce, much like John the Baptist had done in preparing the way for the coming of Jesus two thousand years before. Flynn died on 14 October 1959. –Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 20 June 2009.

You were getting famous, Errol,
right at the start of that teaching
Plan, in those entre deux guerres1
years....your first novel came out
in the first year of that teaching
Plan--1937--and you were still
getting your name in lights when
I was getting into this new religion
that came into town back in those
50s when rock-‘n-roll started, words
for Negroes & genitalia were no-nos
and a superficial propriety prevailed.1

My autobiography will not be as
compelling as your’s-My Wicked
Wicked Ways-released just before
Christmas when I was fifteen, still
in love with Susan Gregory & never
having heard of you or your book....

You pulled no punches about your
convictions, obsessions, addictions,
Errol, but your exaggerations, your
entertainment and shock makes the
work ahistorical and a confirmation
of the view that it is impossible to write
autobiography that is really true history.

1 A French expression for ‘the years between WWI and WW2’
2 D.T. Miller and M. Nowak, The Fifties: The Way We Really Were, Doubleday & Co. Ltd., NY, 1977, p.302.

Ron Price
Tasmania

[Jennifer Ochs]

I am Jennifer Ochs, a freelance writer. I currently conduct book reviews and author interviews.

[Monica Poling]

Hey Jennifer--

Welcome to the site, we're glad to have you here.

Monica

[Helenita]

Hi, everyone. I just signed up. My little story is this: I've been writing for fun in the last 20 years since I was 12. Over the years I had so many unfinished and unpublished works. It wasn't until last year when I realized that I needed my "voice" to be heard and how much I wanted to share my work. I am also a full time medical technologist and a review books at my blog, A Reading Collection.

I look forward to hearing from you all. :)

Helenita

[Michael]

I have noticed that several months have gone by and still there hasn't been a winner announced for the Midnight Hour writing contest. It was supposed to be announced October 25. I have sent several emails without a response. I was wondering if someone could explain why the process is taking so long--if not the right and legal thing to do would be to refund the contestants. Thank you.