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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.

Dana Starr

Jul 19
4 min

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...

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Dana Starr

Feb 9, 2023
5 min

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...

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It's Been a Minute Since I've Updated This Blog. My Bad.

Dana Starr

Oct 13, 2022
4 min

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....

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Dana Starr

Sep 3, 2020
5 min

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...

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Dana Starr

Jul 16, 2020
6 min

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...

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Dana Starr

Apr 8, 2020
8 min

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:...

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Tiny Notebooks, Gangster Geese, Semicolons, and Self-Doubt

Dana Starr

Sep 22, 2019
5 min

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...

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Dana Starr

Jul 18, 2019
5 min

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....

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Dana Starr

May 3, 2019
2 min

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....

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Dana Starr

Jan 30, 2019
10 min

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...

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Dana Starr

Jan 6, 2019
1 min

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...

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Dana Starr

Nov 18, 2018
2 min

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...

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Dana Starr

Nov 13, 2018
3 min

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...

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Dana Starr

Sep 20, 2018
4 min

What the Fork?

This is my round two entry in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Competition. The required genre is action/adventure. Setting: taxicab....

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Dana Starr

Sep 8, 2018
2 min

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;...

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Dana Starr

Jul 19, 2018
6 min

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...

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Dana Starr

May 16, 2018
3 min

Meghan, Maria, Marci & Me

It turns out a fat, loud, prone to hot flashes, junior college dropout, post-menopausal, unemployed woman has a lot in common with the...

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In the Company of Funny, Fearless, Inspirational, Beautiful Ladies

Dana Starr

Apr 30, 2018
5 min

In the Company of Funny, Fearless, Inspirational, Beautiful Ladies

Awwww! Look at her in her little outfit. She's gonna try to do stand-up comedy for the crowd. That's so cute. She looks like a feisty,...

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Dana Starr

Apr 4, 2018
2 min

Ain't No Shame In My Game

We don't all get to be Tom Hanks. Some of us are Peter Scolari. We don't all get to be Ryan Seacrest. Some of us are Brian Dunkleman. We...

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Dana Starr

Jan 1, 2018
1 min

Top Twelve Goals For 2018

I don't make resolutions. I make goals -- attainable goals because I don't want to further damage my wobbly self-esteem. Here are my...

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