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Watching Devastation (Fiction)

Written on 4 Jul, 2010 at 12:40 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 0 Comments

07/04/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire I lay on a bench in a crowded hallway.  I am lucky as there are people pressed against the wall sleeping sitting up.  At least I can lay down here on a pillow made from my rolled... (Continue reading)

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Who am I? (Poem)

Written on 2 Jul, 2010 at 22:43 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 3 Comments

07/02/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire In the forest, there is a fox tending her young.  That is me. Among the trees, there is a spider tending her web.  That is me. Before the clouds, there is a raven on the wing.  That is me. I... (Continue reading)

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Visit To The Cultural Museum

Written on 26 Jun, 2010 at 10:19 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 0 Comments

06/26/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Much of what I write for LGR is non-fiction or opinion. I do write some fiction as well. What follows is a short three page story set in a larger world where a matriarchal society... (Continue reading)

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Normal Heart -Stands test of Time -Celebrity Reading in Los Angeles

Written on 28 Apr, 2010 at 12:44 in Celebrities, Entertainment, Featured, Health, Lifestyle, News, Organizations, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 5 Comments

4-28-2010 – Melanie Nathan The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center and veteran stage, television and film actor David Youse are joining forces with Oscar® and Tony Award-winner Joel Grey to present the historic, 25th anniversary... (Continue reading)

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Saudi Woman Poet Defies Death Threats – Final of Million’s Poet Competition

Written on 20 Mar, 2010 at 13:57 in Featured, Hot Topics, News, Poetry and Fiction, Religion, World | viewed times | 4 Comments

By Melanie Nathan 3-20-10 ; A Saudi housewife, Hissa Hilal, became the subject of death threats after reciting a poem on a show known as the  “Million’s Poet television show” when she rebuked “ad hoc fatwas.”   She courageously performed a... (Continue reading)

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“Darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable…”

Written on 16 Nov, 2009 at 23:50 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 1 Comment

11/16/09 – by Isabell James Jo and I needed to let loose.  Hence, Friday was “Girl’s Night Out.”  In my pre-Navy existence, this would have consisted of our beautiful lesbian friends and a hot ‘girl’ party in the city.  Jo and... (Continue reading)

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Dish of the the day – 3 – French Onion Soup

Written on 19 Jul, 2009 at 16:00 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 0 Comments

**Dish of the day is the story of Joana Lane, a chef and the owner of a small restaurant inherited from her mother, who writes in a very spirited way about her love affairs and sexual adventures in a cookery... (Continue reading)

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Dish of the day – 2 – Spicy Jalapeño Salsa

Written on 24 May, 2009 at 12:00 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 2 Comments

**Dish of the day is the story of Joana Lane, a chef and the owner of a small restaurant inherited from her mother, who writes in a very spirited way about her love affairs and sexual adventures in a cookery... (Continue reading)

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Dish of the day – 1 – Chicken salad pita sandwich

Written on 11 May, 2009 at 20:00 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 3 Comments

**Dish of the day is the story of Joana Lane, a chef and the owner of a small restaurant inherited from her mother, who writes in a very spirited way about her love affairs and sexual adventures in a cookery... (Continue reading)

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Original Poem: Have you ever..

Written on 8 Apr, 2009 at 22:00 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 1 Comment

glanced at a mirror and turned away suddenly? wondering what it is that’s wrong with you than you ask yourself is it my hips? than you glance quickly back at the mirror is it my face? you smile into the mirror than quickly sadden my... (Continue reading)

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Original Poem: Absolutely Devastated

Written on 6 Apr, 2009 at 22:00 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 0 Comments

when someone takes their own life, you feel powerless. there is nothing you can do. there is nothing you could have done. there is nothing you would want to do now. there is nothing you wouldn’t have done. now what? just move on? it’s okay? no, no... (Continue reading)

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Original Poem: Lingering

Written on 21 Mar, 2009 at 18:00 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 2 Comments

your eyes are lingering on mine once our eyes meet time stops.. nothing else exists in that moment of time nothing… you can feel the tension taste the sweetness the love floats in the air we touch hands but only for a moment.. for the shock is too powerful to great a... (Continue reading)

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Original Poem: The Masquerade

Written on 21 Nov, 2008 at 6:00 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 1 Comment

Are you all so selfish, so indifferent, too apathetic to care?No bother to wonder if you are all there.I would trade everything for meaning, a simple chance to be seenwithout the label of Judgment.I guess I was wrong to perceive... (Continue reading)

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Original Poem: No Matter What

Written on 17 Nov, 2008 at 9:00 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 0 Comments

Things have been tough You know that’s true Yet even the tough times Can’t stop me and you We are deeper than most The hurts are deep too But no matter what It’s always only you You’re the one I fight for The one that I love So no matter... (Continue reading)

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Original Poem: Womanly

Written on 3 Nov, 2008 at 9:00 in Featured, Poetry and Fiction | viewed times | 0 Comments

How proper must I seem to these peers of mine, dressed in silk and lace, my head held high, chin and back held straight my verdant blue eyes miss not an overture from these pompous powdered peahens in their purple or green silk, nothing matters to them, I walk... (Continue reading)

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