My writing by Genre

— L. Stewart Marsden

The art of writing has been a life-long endeavor. Crafting something that communicates how I feel or think is both a joy and a frustration. Oftentimes the joy is immediate — as the expressive flow acts in a cathartic way — often merely to vent, and on rarer occasions, to heal. The frustration most often occurs later, on reviewing what I have written, and discovering how inept I am in describing or expressing something.

Oh, and there is fear attached to sharing my writing. That fear happens when whatever I have created is handed over to someone else to read and give me a response. It is the “what do you think”- moment. Everyone has experienced that feeling, whether getting feedback on a new hairdo or clothing purchase or a prepared meal. It is the moment of truth that gives us validation for our effort, or not. It is a moment of extreme vulnerability.

This blog is my first attempt at putting myself out there for review. Not me, actually — but my creative thoughts, responses and productions. I invite your input, and appreciate the time you give to react to my work. Those works are represented in the following genres. I do not claim to be master of any, but a student of each. As I go along, I will add titles to each category and a link to that work.

PS: My work is pretty much posted from oldest to the most recent creation.

• Poetry
• The Bone Pickers
• All the Clocks Are Broken
• the birds
• I’m Sick Today
• What the Blind Man Saw
• April 1, 2012
• The Weeds
• In a Word?
• Knock, Knock!
• Second-Hand Andy
• Communion
• The Kalmar Nyckel
• Rigging for the Dance
• A Sailor’s Life for Me?
• Sculling the Christiana
• A Burr ‘Neath the Saddle
• Restin’ in Reston
• Humpty
• The Kudzus
• Semper Fi
• Regressive Tax
• Pogo
• National Do-Not-Call Registry App
• Starbuck Pornography
• The Clocks Are Ticking
• For Such a Time
• I’d Look You Square in the Eye
• The Sssssserpentttttttt
• Stop, Drop and Roll
• Moe Or Less
• I’m ‘Bout Poe-treed Out
• Billy Hahn
• Seldom Wright
• The Finery of Us
• Day is Done
• the hiccup
• sometimes lovers fart
• Sometimes Poems Make Sense
• I Can Do Whichever I Choose
• The Roller Coaster
• When He Went
• Consequential Derision
• Looking For My Muse
• The Voice (not to be confused with the reality show)
• Would Robert Use an iPad?
• The Black Cat’s Tail
• Legends and Their Fall
• It’s a Rainin’
• After the Storm
• Hit Don’t Make No Big Never-Mind
• The Line
• Fair
• The Party
• Victoria’s Secret
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place
• The Gun, the Bad, and the Ugly
• The Old-Fashioned Way
• The Proctor, or observations of the testees
• The Bust-Out
• Poof!
• Getting Ganglia Going
• The Donuts
• Your Order, Sir?
• When Wonders Cease
• Ah, Autumn!
• The Sycophant
• Too Young?
• My News Views
• Dirty Laundry
• Time Zone
• Soliloquy
• The Explore
• The Pundits
• I haven’t made music
• Little Monkey
• R.I.P.

• Essay
• Pet Peeves: I’d like to . . . ; Stable Condition
• Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow!
• News Alert: Billy Graham is NOT in Stable Condition!
• Crocodiles v. Pedophiles
• Why God is a Denver Broncos Fan
• Denver Pandemic
• Who’d a Thunk?
• The No-Show
• What Lovely Grandchildren!
• The Event
• Letting Go
• Baseball
• Over Easy, Please
• Innocence Lost

• Opinion
• The Dead and one feasible solution
• Just Because You Were Born in America
• What IS A Shocker?
• The Monkey’s Paw: Revisited?
• Remember when?
• Chick-fil-A, Or, Just Why Did That Chicken Cross the Road?

• Short Story
• The Last Concert
• Harvey Meeks and the Crawl Space
• Guadalcanal
• The Writer’s Block
• Dead Wood
• Mrs. Foy’s Koi
• The Learning Curve: Part One of Three; Part Two of Three; Part Three of Three
• The Pet Door, or, There Never Was a More Serious Matter
• MegaGov
• Petya i volk
• The Christmas Portrait
• Last Room at the End of the Hall
• The Cicadae — a teaser
• The Technicolor Dreamer

• True Story
• The Cat From Hell
• The First Slope
• Pop Sprinkle and the Bag of Walnuts
• Most Embarrassing
• The Elephant Whisperer Tribute
• Graham’s Story: Introduction; Part One ; Part Two ; Part Three ; Part Four ; Part Five ; Part Six
• Thank you for your support!
• Graham donates his hair 30 years later

• Adult novel (meaning novels for adults, not pornographic)

• Historic novel
• The Huguenots: Part One: Chapter I ; Chapter II ; Chapter III

• The Woodberry Chronicles 

• Young adult novel

• Information
• The Stringer

• Children’s stories
• Stinky and the Night Mare
• Nana’s Night Lights
• Stinky Gets a New Name
• I’m Sick Today
• Stinky and the Frozen Face
• Stinky and Mister Lincoln