Straitjackets Magazine

Editorial

Dick and Jane , Fun with Dick and Jane , et al, William Gray and Zerna Sharp. I could read aloud and explore things with new friends....

She promised. I believed her.

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Excerpt form "Bitter Oranges"

There stood a Cottage Its pathway strewn with pine

... I'm not sorry. I had to get out. (Excerpt from a novel in progress)

... many old barns and stock pens can be seen along the roadside

I observe how I have withered

No one is allowed to skip a turn on the dance floor

Excerpt from “Middle-Aged Crazy: Short Stories of Midlife and Beyond”

When you're short Cash for gas

One of my amateur thrills in life is finding a typo

I discovered my artistic soul

... animal babies burst to life ...

Memoir excerpt

The temperature from the lights ringside must have reached 120 degrees

Summer 2020