Dusted off this one from a few years back, for the upcoming essay collection. Enjoy STAR PARTIES You might find yourself standing in the checkout line at the grocery store, waiting but anxious and bored, having forgotten how to daydream. Your attention might drift to the tabloids lined up strategically in front of you, readingContinueContinue reading “Star Parties”
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The Party
Feeling a little bit maudlin when I wrote this new piece of flash non-fiction, but just tried to roll with the feeling, honor it, and hopefully, make it something more. Enjoy. Doug THE PARTY On Sunday afternoons, if I’m out running errands, I like to stop at my favorite record store and see if anythingContinueContinue reading “The Party”
Memory
Here’s a brand new one, folks, for your immediate pleasure. Enjoy. Memory is like a dream and dreams are like memories chasing you through your days changing shape filling holes until you wake up a different person than the day before which is as it should be or you would become thirty thousand versions ofContinueContinue reading “Memory”
Wedding Bands
“Wedding Bands,” a new piece of flash fiction up at the estimable “Friday Flash Fiction”. Love. Memory. Pawn Shops. Bob Dylan. Enjoy. Right here: http://www.fridayflashfiction.com/longer-stories/wedding-bands-by-doug-hoekstra
In the Direction of the Slide
A new Doug Hoekstra poem, “In the Direction of the Slide,” just out at Edify Fiction. Edify’s mission is to “offer positive and uplifting fiction content by new and established authors. For our readers, it is all things good or true or romantic or beautiful or lovely.” There can be a fair amount of post-modernContinueContinue reading “In the Direction of the Slide”
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