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This is a favorite poem I wrote many years ago. Those who have known me long enough might have heard it at a reading or seen it in print in a chapbook. I still like it very much.

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Golly. This is my very first podcast. Exhausting. Please, I’ll take the gin. This is a story about a girl named Ava, who goes from childhood through adulthood with her mother and three aunts and their obsession with the color red.

Get your coffee and croissant now …or your gin. Sit back and listen. It’s about 12 minutes or so. Enjoy! I’ll post it on The Storytellers Blog as soon as I figure out how to do it.

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Leave it to Kim Ayres of Scotland to get me to open up Garage Band on my Mac. Mind you, I’ve had Macs for ages, but never saw any reason to venture into yet another program I’d have to figure out.

Until Kim, the pirate-guy with the voice that sounds like it should be purchased by some swanky company to sell luxury automobiles, came up with The StoryTellers Blog.

He’s done an incredible amount of work with Eryl Shields to get this audio blog going, and you’ll enjoy hearing the stories on there. My first podcast will be a 12 minutes reading of my flash fiction story, “The Story of Red.” Flash fiction here in the USA means anything less than 2000 words. Which, by the way, is the usual length of time for an aural tale, so this fits nicely over there. I’ll post my first attempt at podcasting soon. It’s a bit more complicated than I thought. Garrr….

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