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Sparks that will be posted every other week for your inspiration.

Love Wins

As shit storms the bad news, fear breaks the internet and the media feeds the beast, I sit, reeling at my table, in my melting-pot café, and fret about corporatism, climate change, dashed dreams and the antidote to all this trauma. Abby, a regular and a pal, shows up, hungry for breakfast, with no appetite…

January 29, 2016

The Happy Reader

My eyes sparked on the hot-pink paperback sexing up our neighbors’ suburban library: Xaviera Hollander’s barnstorming bestseller, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story. A gluttonous reader in the pre-pubescent set, I knew romance, but I didn’t know hookers, and the deeply penetrating gaze of the courtesan in question clearly advised me that this candy-covered publication was not…

December 17, 2015

Joyride

Meet Teddy. Her real name is Theodora, after her late, great Nonna, but that was a mouthful and Teddy spat it out, like every word that shoots out of her blood- red kisser so freaking fast, it’s a miracle she doesn’t choke. I have never met anyone who talks and reveals so much, in so little…

November 12, 2015

I Can See You

What big eyes you have. When I was young, people used to squawk and stare. The better to see you with! I’d spit, as they loomed over my stroller and drooled. I’m a writer! I wail. So lost, so lonely, so helpless without words. #Spark I CAN SEE YOU was drawn in a coffeeshop, on the mean…

October 12, 2015

Thanks Giving

Welcome to Burns the Fire’s new series SPARKS! Flashes of love and inspiration that will be posted every other week, for your stimulation. * Happy Thanks Giving!! Let’s re-make it worldwide. In celebration of the bountiful harvest we should all be able to share, in celebration of my readers, my life and my repaired laptop, I fall to my…

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Love Wins

The Happy Reader

Joyride

I Can See You

Thanks Giving