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Heather

There is fire in my heart. I do what I can. ~S Perabo

About Me

Juicy Fruit is my least favorite gum.

Homepage:

HAFleming

Stories:

Barcelona Review: People Like Us

Word Riot: Something To Tell Gina

Barcelona Review: Who I Was Supposed To Be

Edifice Wrecked: Blondes, Berries, and My First True Love part 1 Part 2 The Vestal Review: Hospitality

Ink Pot: That Kind Of Girl

Flash Quake: Have You Ever Seen Someone So Beautiful

Smokelong Quarterly: Layover

Dead Mule: Indian Summer

See You Next Tuesday Anthology: Cocktail

Quotes:

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.~Diane Arbus MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Herman Melville but that doesn't look likely.

Music:

Neko Case, The Velvet Underground, Jenny Lewis, The Decemberists, PJ Harvey, Interpol, Tegan and Sara, Keren Ann, Blondie, Kathleen Edwards, Aimee Mann, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan

Movies:

La Vie Revee Des Anges, Romance, Clerks, The Breakfast Club, 300, Ghost World, Whatever, The Royal Tennenbaums, Fargo, Rushmore, Freeway, The Secret Lives of Dentists

Television:

Arrested Development, The Office, Lost, Freaks and Geeks, Six Feet Under, Most Evil

Books:

Moby Dick, Bad Behavior, The Saftey of Objects, A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That, Willful Creatures, Tell Me, Jesus' Son, Pride and Prejudice, Because They Wanted To, We Don't Live Here Anymore, The Age of Grief, Madame Bovary

Heroes:

Lizzie Bennett. My mom.

My Blog

Black-eyed Susan

Late summer in the heat, in the evening I go ahead and plant her even though it's way past her bloom. She sat in a black plastic bucket, already paid for, forgotten behind the garage for weeks.I dig ...
Posted by Heather on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:12:00 PST

Maybe Sparrow

"Maybe Sparrow it's to late, your body limp beneath my feet. Your dusty eyes as cold as clay. Didn't hear my warning..."~ Neko Case On my way to the mail box I saw a bird on the lawn, fluffed and fat...
Posted by Heather on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:03:00 PST

What I Can Only Tell The Dead

 Only one of our daughters is yours, the little dark one who wont let me touch her.  I want to hold her, feel her black curls against my cheek. She looks through me with your eyes; I am invi...
Posted by Heather on Thu, 11 May 2006 01:53:00 PST

Five Moments of Marjane

1.         &nbs p;          Amelia and Marjane paint wounds on their faces for Halloween-- dark rings around their e...
Posted by Heather on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:01:00 PST