More audience craziness

Yesterday, I went to a matinee of the Tony-award winning play, Red, about the relationship between the abstract expressionist, Mark Rothko, and his apprentice. A woman three rows in front of me was crinkling a candy wrapper for twenty minutes. If I shushed her, I'd be disturbing everyone else, so I had to try to push her out of my consciousness during a play where every word felt key. Suddenly, the guy next to me stood up. He was wiry and at least 6/7." Bent at the waist, he leaned across the two rows ahead of us, his head moving side to side like a snake after a mouse. Then he got very still. His ears pricked. He'd located the candy wrap crinkler and said, "shhhh" in her ear, scaring the bejeezus out of her. I wished I could take him with me to every show.

Places to send your work

Anthologies: Calls For Submission

Deadline:	6/30/2010
Submit to:	Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Pasted-in e-mail submissions. Email Address
Theme:	Poems celebrating the legacy of Langston Hughes. Poet MUST live or work in DC, MD, VA, WV, or DE.
Type:	Poetry (5 poems MAX)
URL:	Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Featured Listing

Deadline:	8/1/2010
Submit to:	Rattle. Send via email attachment (1 file) or pasted-in text. Email Address
Theme:	Mental Health Professionals
Type:	Poetry and essays (5,000 words MAX)
URL:	Rattl

Deadline:	8/1/2010
Submit to:	The First Line. Send via MS Word or WordPerfect attachment. Email Address
Theme:	Every story starts out the same: Three thousand habitable planets in the known universe, and I'm stuck on the only one without ______________. [Fill in the blank.]
Type:	Short stories (3,000 words MAX)
URL:	The First Line

Deadline:	8/6/2010
Submit to:	Creative Nonfiction, Attn: Immortality, 5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Theme:	Immortality
Type:	Essay (5,000 words MAX)
URL:	Immortality

Deadline:	8/15/2010
Submit to:	Ruminate Magazine. Submission Link
Theme:	Sounds and silence. MUST BE quality work that reveals the nature of Christ, in whatever form this may look like.
Type:	Poetry (3 poems, 40 lines MAX) and prose (6,000 words MAX)
URL:	Ruminate Magazine

Deadline:	9/1/2010
Submit to:	Workers Write! Blue Cubicle Press, PO Box 250382, Plano, TX 75025-0382, or send via email. Email Address
Theme:	Tales from the Courtroom.
Type:	Short stories (5,000 words MAX)
URL:	Workers Write

Deadline:	1/31/2011
Submit to:	Dream of Things. Submission Link
Theme:	Various topics based on one of 15 themes. See http://dreamofthings.com/workshop-2 for more details.
Type:	Personal essays (500-5,000 words MAX)
URL:	Dream of Things

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