Dana Starr
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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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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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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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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Dana Starr
- Dec 6, 2017
- 2 min
"I'm Coming Out Of The Woodwork, Chad"
Please watch the short video before you start reading. Also, take note: the words you read in quote marks are Chad's words not mine. Oh...
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