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Take My Word For It
If you came here from Facebook, save yourself some time and scroll to the bottom to find the answers I promised you. If you have no idea...
Dana Starr
Aug 134 min read
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Marfa on a Monday
This is my latest entry in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge. Genre: drama. Location: a roadside attraction. Object: shampoo. Word...
Dana Starr
Aug 96 min read
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Books, Booze, and Balls
Click here to read my latest entry in the Writing Battle. Genre: shipwrecked. Character: outlaw. Object: driftwood. Word Count: 1,000 or...
Dana Starr
Mar 1812 min read
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Teatime
Click here to read my latest entry in the Writing Battle. Genre: drama. Character: accountant. Object: bandana. Word count: 1,000 or...
Dana Starr
Mar 86 min read
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I finally remembered I have a website. I also remembered I wrote this story in the spring. Please read it if you're so inclined.
The following story received an honorable mention in the WritersWeekly.com Spring Short Story Contest. I had 24 hours to write a story...
Dana Starr
Jul 19, 20244 min read
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Sanitize the Sanitizer
COVID makes me feel like I just got off a three-day bender and woke up missing a shoe behind a dumpster at Dollar General, clutching half...
Dana Starr
Feb 9, 20235 min read
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It's Been a Minute Since I've Updated This Blog. My Bad.
Anyhoo, I had a dream a few nights back that I was a young, rich, thin woman who owned her own shop in a barn. That was the good news....
Dana Starr
Oct 13, 20224 min read
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Netflix and No Bra
Synopsis: Annie doesn't always understand what's going on, but she understands the art of the deal. Annie rolled over and looked at the...
Dana Starr
Sep 3, 20205 min read
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All in a Day's Work
Hey gang: it's flash fiction time again. I had 1,000 words to write a romance. The primary setting has to be a rooftop pool. The...
Dana Starr
Jul 16, 20206 min read
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A Truck Full of Strangers
This is my second round story for the NYC Midnight Short Story Contest. Genre: romantic comedy. Subject: sense of direction. Character:...
Dana Starr
Apr 8, 20208 min read
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Tiny Notebooks, Gangster Geese, Semicolons, and Self-Doubt
It's been so long since I've updated this website, I forgot my password. I had it written down, but, of course, I forgot where I wrote...
Dana Starr
Sep 22, 20195 min read
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Something's Fishy
Hey kids! It's time for the annual NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Competition. Last year, I came within a whisker of making it to round two....
Dana Starr
Jul 18, 20195 min read
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Us Isn't As Creepy As Us
Cover your mouth with your hand and softly say the following: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Um diddle diddle, diddle um, diddle ay....
Dana Starr
May 3, 20192 min read
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Suck It Up, Buttercup
The following story received honorable mention in the first round of the NYC Midnight Short Story contest. I was required to write a...
Dana Starr
Jan 30, 201910 min read
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Happy Sunday and Happy New Year
For some of you, who don't live where I live, it's not Sunday; however, it's still a relatively new year. I don't celebrate on New Year's...
Dana Starr
Jan 6, 20191 min read
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This Is Not Who We Are
Long, painful, repetitive. Living with an addict is all those things and so much more. Watching Beautiful Boy, a two-hour movie about...
Dana Starr
Nov 18, 20182 min read
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I'm So Pissappointed
Pissed off and disappointed. I'm both those things. I'm pissappointed. I'm typing this with one hand because the other hand is stuck in a...
Dana Starr
Nov 13, 20183 min read
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What the Fork?
This is my round two entry in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Competition. The required genre is action/adventure. Setting: taxicab....
Dana Starr
Sep 20, 20184 min read
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Crazy Lower-Middle-Class Rednecks
I'd pay good money to see a movie entitled Crazy Lower-Middle-Class Rednecks. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, that's not a real movie;...
Dana Starr
Sep 8, 20182 min read
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I'm All Jacked Up On Mountain Dew
Are you one of those calm, reassuring, overly confident Ted Talk presenters? If so, please come to my house and light an aromatherapy...
Dana Starr
Jul 19, 20186 min read
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