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Mountain Nose

74-year old grandfather. Served with IVS, Vietnam, 1968-69 in II Corps/III Corps. Police-fire-court reporter for Holyoke (MA) Transcript. Editor for GTE NW "Newsworthy" paper. PA Officer (DAE) for FEMA, Region 10, 15 years. Member Poets West Society. Currently, substitute high school teacher, Everett, WA.

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Short Fiction
Poetry
Short Fiction
Slice of Life  1 min

Paper and Ink

Mountain Nose

She didn't think herself a racist. She'd had black school friends, worked with black women at the restaurant, and watched Oprah daily.

But when her seven-year-old, white daughter brought home a ...  [+]
Finalist - Jury America: color it in. Summer 2020 - Short Fiction
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 4 min

Why Slavery in America?

Mountain Nose

To some degree, American slavery was due to the glaciers of the last Ice Age that ended nearly twelve thousand years ago. As the ice, covering five million square miles and as thick as 10,000 feet ...  [+]
America: color it in. Summer 2020 - Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
Portrait  2 min

While We Breathe

Mountain Nose

One March afternoon in 1969 I was on the deck of a Chinese junk listening to the water clop against the wooden hull and enjoying a breeze that blew toward the South China Sea. The junk bobbed ...  [+]
Finalist - Jury Set Stories Free 2018
Short Fiction
 5 min

Family

Mountain Nose

The word “family” conjures recollections: Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas around the tree, rented summer bungalows by the shore. I have those in my memory. But I have an added image: three or fou ...  [+]
Button Fiction Spring 2019