3-minutes stories read by the author
DimeStories! San Diego Writers, Ink; Liberty Station; 6:30 Sign Ups - 7:00 Readings; 3-Minute stories read by the author; LISTEN AND ENJOY!
Mark Drozda – Cupid’s Crisis
Tom Waldron – Helpless and Radiant
June Cressy – One Last Time
Don Ryan – Water and the Holy Ghost
Friday, February 14, 2020 
Guest Host: Richard Diaz!
I grew up in Joliet, IL (as in Joliet Jake of The Blues Brothers) and migrated to Chicago.
Fiction growing up? The Bible, Sunday comics, Verne, Poe, The Adventures of Tin Tin, …
Did time in the pastor’s office: something about questioning the teachings in bible school.
In middle school played hooky. Afternoon matinees. Learned the power of Story. Bonnie and Clyde: a fragile love story told in violent images and sounds.
Afterwards I drifted toward non-fiction:
HS science teacher
Science textbook asst. editor
Medical copy editor —AMA
Environmental health inspector and manager (tons of manuals, guidance docs, policies, procedures, etc).
Did a summer at Time in Manhattan on a paid fellowship, Mass Media Science Writing, sponsored by the AAAS.
Fun, but still no fiction until I ran into DimeStories.
I had held off some months on reading much like a baseball player scouting opposing pitchers. Better come with your A-game.
Wonderful venue.
Time: 6:30 p.m. Sign Ups: 7:00 p.m. Readings
Location: San Diego Writers, Ink; Liberty Station
3-Minute prose read by the author
Come read and listen or just listen!
Bonnie Bishop – Two Hands
Josh Baxt – Endless Blue Sky (Excerpt)
Lawrence Johnson – Cold Knight Fog
Tracey W. Andreae – Florence and Fluffy Go for a Walk
Read Listen and Enjoy!
6:30 Sign Ups; 7:00 Readings
San Diego Writers, Ink
$5 Donation at the Door
Belinda Kein – Dear Santa
Cheryl Sonstein – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Mark Drozda –Nothing Funny
Richard Diaz – A Little Thrust-Tailed Dog
6:30 Sign Ups; 7:00 Readings San Diego Writers, Ink $5 Donation at the door 3-minute creative writing read by the author
Mark Drozda – Exit Strategy
Cheryl Sonstein – She Took Out a Calculator
Carrie Danielson – Saving Seymour
Guest Host: Barbara Huntington
Barbara Huntington has been a civil rights worker, teacher, computer mail order house CEO, technical writer, marketing analyst/consultant, and director of a university program to assist underrepresented students as they enter PhD programs. She retired in 2013 as Director of Preprofessional Health Advising at SDSU and in co-author of Writing About Me: a Step-by-Step Guide to Developing a Powerful Personal Statement for your Application to Medical School. She has a BS in Zoology from SDSU and an MBA from UCLA.
Barbara lives in Chula Vista with her dog Tashi surrounded by a drought-tolerant garden where she grows her own organic vegetables and walks her labyrinth of rocks and succulents. For several years she has published poems and stories in The Guilded Pen, The San Diego Poetry Annual, and A Year in INK. Last year she read her Scary Poe Story, Obtain a Blacklight as Soon as Possible on KPBS Midday Edition. It can be heard on Beth Accomando’s Cinema Junkie. Barb”s blog is: https://barbarahuntington.com
6:30 – Refreshments; 7:00 Readings – San Diego Writers,Ink – $5 donation
Ed Coonce, Kary Vail, Bernie Nofel, Zoe Ghahremani!
DimeStories selected them as our September StandOuts. Hear the audios below.
Listen and Enjoy!
Zoe Ghahremani – An Iranian-American’s Deja Vu
Bernie Nofel – Knock Knock Joke
Kary Vail – When Bad People Go to Heaven and Good People Go to Hell
Ed Coonce – The Argumentative Smart House
Nick Angello – Parking Enforcement
John Shaw – Yes and Amen
Olga Anson – Aged Mother
Join us for our 15th Anniversary with Host and Founder
Amy Wallen!
Amy Wallen is the associate director at New York State Summer Writers’ Institute and the author of When We Were Ghouls, A Memoir of Ghost Stories, as well as the bestselling novel, MoonPies and Movie Stars. She facilitates Savory Salons, a manuscript workshop with LA Times book critic, David Ulin in San Diego, Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Normal School, Country Living, The Writers’ Chronicle and other national magazines. Most of the time she lives in San Diego, California with her husband and the cutest dog that’s ever chased a squirrel. Summers she lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, where Hazel chases woodchucks. 
For this anniversary evening you will have 3 minutes and 15 seconds! Enjoy!
