Shelagh Power-Chopra

oh, i just meant "with us" meaning an interview at the five.. so we will do one in the new year! "with us" is a sort of silly way to say it. An interview.

Shelagh - thanks for the comments and suggestions on "Cloudy..." Very appreciated!

Hi Shelagh, thanks so much for reading and faving "Baby, Baby..." I appreciate it!

shelagh, i appreciate your comment on "before the bloodbath". there's a german version of this story. in it, the "lens tunnel" sentence is at the end instead of at the beginning, which COMPLETELY changes the story. most amazing. thank you!

Thank you for reading and commenting on my Les Stroud silliness!

Shelagh, Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for the fav for "Sisters"!

Thanks, Shelagh, for reading and commenting on "Swim"!

Shelagh thanks so much for liking Tool and what you wrote to me!

Shelagh, thank you!

Sorry I'm a little late getting here, but thank you for your comment on This Girl. I really appreciate it.

Hey Shelagh, thanks for reading/commenting on Unintended Consequences -- I appreciate the read! Hope all is well in your world. Peace...

Shelagh - many thanks for the kind words on Bleached.

Hey Shelagh,
Thank you so much for your great comments on "Sinister Age of the Draft." I love that Mrs. Pufry is color coordinated with pink barrette and brown teeth. Loved your cigarillo story!!!!

Thank you, Shelagh, for the fave and the lovely comment on "The Rising."

Thank you so much, Shelagh, for your nice words on "The Last Swim" - I'm glad you liked it :)!

Shelagh, thank you!

thanks so much for yor comment on april 9--made my day. frank o'hara always knocks me out--nyc writer for all seasons. ciao--g

Shelagh! Thanks for your very kind remarks on alys. I see you have posted something recently and I look forward to reading it. I hope you and yours are well!

Frankie has laid claim to "wolverine poets" but the honorific "coyote poets" is still available. If you wish. And thanks for the read and compliment.

Shelagh, so glad you liked "Big." Thanks very much.

Alright, Shelagh, if that's how you feel. Have your lawyer call my lawyer. You can HAVE the villa at Côte d'Azur, but I want the dog ... AND the Vermeer ... Wait a minute ... You can't divorce me. We're not married. Phew. Scared me for just a moment. Flashbacks.

Whoops... I meant Shelagh. Isn't that just like a man?

Hi Shelagh, thanks for your comment on Momma's Dogs. (And sorry I did not answer sooner, I didn't realize I was supposed to reply on your page. :)

-F.

Hi Shelagh, thanks for your comments on Snowdick- Funny and a little bittersweet, interactions etc- Much appreciated. Was a fun piece to write, glad you enjoyed.

Shelagh, thanks ever so much for your generous comment and fave on "1967, The things they wanted." I truly appreciate it.

Thanks for the comment on 2K. Random is right: you don't know the half of it.

Shelagh, thanks for your read, fave, and comment on "Dear What I Wanted." Much appreciated!

Hi Shelagh, thanks for reading and commenting on So Few Dreams. Much appreciated!

Thanks, Shelagh, for your kind words on and fave of "Staring at Waves."

Shelagh-thank your commenting on the lack of sentimentality in Descanso. I read an interview with Louise Erdrich in which she commented about the hardest thing about writing after having children. It's not time, but rather the need to resist sentimentality.

Shelagh, thanks for reading and commenting on "Liplorn". So appreciated!

Shelagh, you are so awesome! Happy Valentine's Day!

Thanks, Shelagh, for your kind comment on "Wahrheit und Dichtung." I appreciate it very much.

Thanks, Shelagh. Glad you liked "Express." Tried to keep it to the minimum. Yeah, lot of white space, that's the ticket.

Hi Shelagh! - Thank you so much for your nice comments on my story "Nothing Good..." :)!

Shelagh,thank you for reading and commenting on "Solar Plexus". Happy to hear your thoughts.

Shelagh thanks so much for commenting on "the world will end.." I am most appreciative, and, yes, that little color-- as you said.
Cheers! susan

Hi Shelagh, thanks for the kind words and for the fave on "After Detox"! You da bomb!

Thank you for reading the "wide open spaces" between the pain. And, of course, for liking the Coyote section.

Hi Shelagh, thanks for your comments on my story. I look forward to reading some of your work.

Glad you liked "Mad Max" Shelagh. That last line is my favorite, too!

Shelagh - thanks for the awesome comment on "I Like It".

gad i hope that being next to a marsh doesn't inevitably produce pretentious preachy landscape poetry. if it does, we may be doomed....but somehow i trust in the annual protection of the biblical plague of greenheads to make the life of the pretentious unbearable. (i had a long drunken conversation about the ways in which we owe things to the pestilence of the greenheads. without them, someone said, essex would be salisbury. which is think is bad. this despite the fact that i like abandoned miniature golf courses)....essex is a curious little place--very different than rockport (which is no longer dry)...

Thanks, Shelagh, for your comment on my composite "Wipe Your Feet." How's the weather these days on Cape Cod?

Shelagh, thank you so much - I always appreciate your thoughts on my work.

This play has turned out to be a bit of a slog--though I hope not for you lot that have stuck with it to the--almost--end. For that, it's hard to express how much I appreciate your reading on( and on...and on...) but thanks, deeply meant.

Thank you so much for your very generous comments about god's man, Shelagh! They made me happy! Have a super weekend. -- Q

Thank you for reading and commenting on "Ex Husband." And faving. :) I'm behind, so I apologize for my delay in acknowledging your courtesy and kindness.

And please don't get me started on Dinner with Sam Rockwell - I have goosebumps, start to finish. If I try to tell you every facet I find amazing and wonderful, I'm afraid I'll sound like I'm off my meds.

Every word of it is remarkable. It has been a joy, a treat, to read.

Thanks so much for your nice comments on Star Anise! It’s a longer one so I really appreciate it. You are very kind (And you live on the Cape – nice!)

Hi Shelagh, thanks for reading Familiar Things, and thanks for commenting, too - I really appreciate it. fos.

Thanks for the nice words and fave for "Repair Man" Shelagh!

Glad you liked "Night & Day" Shelagh. Esp. glad you enjoyed the nurse tidbit.

I wonder if it might be possible to pack a batch of Negronis in the bag I'll be taking for Thanksgiving and sip them from one of those beer hats all weekend. Actually, I've never tried that particular beverage either but when I looked it up, it said "a thinking man's drink." hmmm... Thanks for the tip on where to find them. Cape Cod it is! Happy Tgiving! -- Q

Hey Shelagh, thanks so much for "rug" and what you wrote, so much appreciate!

Shelagh, many many thanks for liking Tall Men, and wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving & great writing year ahead to you

Thank you so much, Shelagh for your comment on "Slices"! best, meg

Thanks much for reading and commenting on Postcards, Shelagh.

Thank you thank you! I think my profile is set to invisible or something because people don't drop by as often as they used to. I hope you keep reading, enjoying, and commenting on my stuff til you're blue in the face.
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Hello, Shelagh, thank you for the FAV on "Amahle and I". Much appreciated.I look forward to reading your work.

I'm so glad you liked after amelia Shelagh. Thank you for your very kind remarks. I posted something about the gauyabera but will post here too: Yes, a classic Cuban shirt, very retro, maybe "in?" I had fun researching it and thought it highly likely a man at that time in California might don one when he goes to the beach. Cheers. -- Q

Really appreciate the lovely feedback for "Moro" Shelagh. Thank you.

Thank you so much for reading, commenting, and faving my sad, sad, rejection letters! I've miss you. :)

Thanks for reading Drinking Homemade with the Saints. Glad you liked it.

Shelagh, Thanks for your comments on "The Party." All the more so because you such a perceptive reader!

Shelagh, thanks so much for your nice words on An Italian Lunch. Much appreciated.

Shelagh, thanks SO much for the kind words and fave for "Stampede." I really appreciate it.

Shelagh, Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on Tomorrowland.

Thank you for he high praise for Mafia Girlfriend. Much appreciated.

The boys are back, the boys are back in town...

That was brutally funny. "Sausage Soothsayer" and "Beast Ribbon" ... he "horfed on the mixer." You could fell governments with an anarchic imagination like that. I have been bested and no mistake.

Shalagh- thank you for reading and for your comments on my story "The Drunk Elephant" - much appreciated!

Thanks, Shelagh for the laudatory remarks on "La vie...etc." Every time I visit your wall I get nostalgic for the Rowdies. Wonder what the lads are up to these days. Dead drunk in an alley, chew toys for feral beasties?

hi shelagh, thanks for yer comment. your site, gootdings, is fantastico. i hadn't looked at it in a while: so stylish, shopping genius meets writer, wow.

Hi Shelagh, thanks so much for reading Live and adding your comments, most appreciated!

Thank you for reading and kind words on SURVIVOR -- so appreciated! And HOW I write? Lots of coffee, mornings at a small desk shoved into a bay window as the sun comes up, furiously then before everyone else wakes. then, stolen moments -- the metro, grocery lines, vacation days. You?

Peace...

thanks for comment on Folded Flower...really enjoyed your Fancy Me...great turn on the prompt...Fancy Me would be a terrific shampoo! and could be a great name for one of those cheesy hair salons too!

Shelagh, thanks for reading & comment on Bow Ties, yes they are one way I can freeze flash a time, like a song.

Thanks for your knid (knid? how about "kind") comment on "Failure."

Hi Shelagh, and thanks for reading my Deer Collage story and for the encouraging comments!

Shelagh, Thanks so much for reading and for your kind comments on my story.

Thanks for browsing round in the archives and for saying nice things about the story. That one was the second I wrote since on Fictionaut, and first try at writing that short in a long time.

Where you lead, O Master, I follow....

Notes From the Audubon Society Monthly Newsletter:
It has been several months now, since the last recorded sighting of the last known remaining specimen of the Female Naked Rowdy, driven from its nest by two birders whose names will go down in the everlasting annals of Birding Infamy (Stu and Cliff, last names unknown, although birders everywhere are on the case: We Will Find You!)This single specimen, of a species thought extinct since 1904, had galvanized the birding world and created " A zone of sanctity" for a 10 mile radius around the great lady's nest, until the two drunken idiots blundered past all warning signs, electric fences, and land mines( *unauthorized by the Audubon Society.)

Now the only possible specimens of "the rowdy" are thought to be found in the vast, mucky and redolent "Stayoutaheah Wilderness" a swamp in Southeast Georgia, not, it must be said, readily distinguishable from the rest of the state's terrain, awash with

(oops dropped the ending)stay away from them evil little turds," and in late spring, when the boys stripped down to dive off the bridge, " them clothesless devils, them naked rowdies." Paddy quailed appropriately his eyes wide, but inwardly exulted. At last, out of the blue, a gift! Brilliant!
The name of the band!

You have the comic novelist's gift (ala Gogol) of spinning fully realized idiots out of air and soap bubbles. Unfortunate though that I shall never again see a bird's nest without picturing Stu and his large and murderous ass.

It's a little known side note in the history of this seminal band that the boys collectively took an oath to eschew all use of hard drugs, before Paddy and Liam's venerable{ In fact, virtually, incommunicably senile) catechism teacher Sister Bejesus, the Ghost of Mary.

"Who?" She kept saying,"Are you them little sh__tes that was always after swearin' in me catechism?" The group were firm in their zeal to reform--all, of course, save Roddy Doyle, the legendarily catatonic drummer; simultaneously addicted to crack and smack, he had been 3 times declared legally dead from overdoses and 3 times resurrected; er, resuscitated. (We think. We're not really sure how well that last one took.)On being asked to join in the Oath to swear off hard drugs, Roddy said...well, here we must draw the veil of probity and good taste. But it wasn't very nice.

Jeez, Sheelagh, blow me out of the water, why don't you? I'd be off somewhere licking my wounds and whimpering from that last salvo if I weren't still laughing.

Point of information for us lesser practicioners: How is it possible to write hilariously about a Naked Irish Rock band without resorting to a single obscenity, whereas even in my most Jamesian outings I can't go two sentences without resorting to that invaluable all purpose, verbnounadjective that starts with f.?
Anyway, I'll be back, with a small placeholder just to keep things going. But go easy on the old guy, willya?

A devoted fan: "They'e always gettin' it wrong about the Rowdies. Like that night, you know, when they said Patrick pissed on everybody in the mosh pit. That's just bull shit. I was in the club that night and it wasn't like that at all: Patrick pissed in a cup, I saw it. I even saw him throw the cup at the waitress. Patrick's never gonna piss on his fans."

Well, Bodega Bay is actually not terribly sinister. The character is between a rock and hard place. Her sister is still her sister. Thanks for the read and the comment.

I couldn't think of another one for laughing: you win.( For the moment.)

That was fun, Shelagh, reading your comments, but now every time I think of the Mass. coast, I'll see your naked rowdies boozing and singing along the shore...

Shelagh, thank you for reading and commenting on "The Common Cold"!

Said Object is really fun and interesting!

Thank you so much for your nice critique.

Shelagh, thanks for your comments on "Havana"!

Sure! Seems like it might be a very interesting novel, maybe you should continue with it...the blog is fun, always fun to write about objects, a good starting point.