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Waide Riddle·June 1, 2024

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Beautiful Blue

written by: Waide Riddle

When I look into your eyes
I see a summer rain…
Falling on an ocean…
Sunlight shimmering through cloud.
Raindrops…
Glistening…

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Waide Riddle

Waide Riddle is an award-winning author, poet, writer, and filmmaker. Many of his poems and books are archived at UCLA Library of Special Collections, The Simon Weisenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, Poets House/New York City, and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

Jim Bartlett

After a long career tinkering in telecommunications, Jim Bartlett switched to tinkering with writing fiction, both requiring a stretch of the imagination. In the course of putting his fingers to the keyboard, he's been fortunate to have quite a number of his stories featured both in print and online in several wonderful publications, including a story selected for "The Best of Fiction on the Web, 1996 – 2017" anthology. While mentally he strolls along a warm California beach with his wife and golden retriever (shhh, she doesn't know she's a dog), physically they reside on a special little island in the Pacific Northwest.

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My business card reads “Morton Stark Transport.” I’m called upon to disperse the ashes of the dearly departed and honor their final wishes. People hire me to escort the remains throughout the world ...

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