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Written by, and recorded with permission from by the wonderful Peter Davey...offered in two parts.

As I said earlier, there is still joy in the world, and I find that when everything seems to have gone to hell in a handbasket - when in fact we're all starting to secretly harbor thoughts that perhaps the Mayans got it right - it soothes my soul to find sources of amusement, little reminders that we are more than the sum of our personal or global tragedies.

Enter this week's Going Public, which is lovingly offered as pure amusement from author Peter Davey (with my apologies to dear Peter for my not brilliant attempt at a British accent...I just couldn't bear to say "arse" and "paracetamol" without one).

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Previous "Going Public" offerings...sound clips linked via SoundCloud

4.12.13 "Dear D'Arline"

4.5.13 "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why", by Edna St. Vincent Millary

3.29.13 "The Concert," by Edna St. Vincent Millay

3.22.13 "I Thought About the Ways You Might Have Died," Troy Palmer

3.15.13 "Silence," by D.H. Lawrence

3.8.13 "Carrefour," by Amy Lowell

3.6.13 "You Are Tired (i think)," by e.e. cummings (Word Read Aloud Day)

3.1.13 "The Angel Lady," by Rolli

2.22.13 "Restlessness," by D.H. Lawrence

2.15.13 "Homecoming," - Anonymous

2.8.13 "Nothing to Save," D.H. Lawrence

2.1.13 "remember" - Anonymous

1.26.13 "The Mother of Jacquelyn Butane," by Andrew F. Sullivan

1.19.13 Special Poe Edition

1.18.13 "Luffy's Girlfriend," by Jen Neale - No. 13

1.11.13 "Man Uses Tazer on Himself," by Anonymous

1.4.13 "New Year's Eve," by D.H. Lawrence

12.28.12 "The New Year," by Harriet S. Caswell

12.21.12 "Lucky," by Will Johnson

12.14.12 "Stomach Full of Bricks," by Braydon Beaulieu

12.7.12 "Aches," by Jessica Kluthe

11.30.12 "Your Wrists Are Small," by Sarah Habein

11.23.12 "The Sum of Us," by Troy Palmer

11.16.12 "Fractal," by Paul McQuade

11.9.12 "The Forsaken," by Amy Lowell

11.2.12 "Hatchet Job," by Brad Rose and Little Fiction

10.31.12 "The Pit and the Pendulum," by Edgar Allan Poe

10.26.12 "The Faithful Run to It," by Vincent Scarpa and Little Fiction

10.19.12 "Cold, Sweet Grapes," by Leesa Cross-Smith

10.12.12 "Ashes to Ashes," by Peg Daniels & Little Fiction

10.5.12 Lady Chatterley's Lover (excerpt), by D. H. Lawrence

9.28.12 "Don't Lie," by Len Kuntz & Little Fiction

9.21.12 "Good Friday," by Amanda Leduc & Little Fiction

9.14.12 "Little Birds," from Little Birds by Sarah Flynn & Little Fiction

9.7.12 "Nano," by Hacksaw & Ficly.com

8.31.12 "Ebb," by Edna St. Vincent Millay

8.24.12 Excerpts from a Cat's Diary

8.17.12 "A kiss on the forehead," by Marina Tsvetaeva

8.10.12 Musings of Edgar Degas

8.3.12 "We'll Go No More a-Roving," by Lord Byron

7.27.12 "Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand," by Walt Whitman

7.20.12 Letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Frances Turnbull

7.13.12 "Peach," by D. H. Lawrence

7.6.12 "The Brambles," by Sarah Flynn & Litte Fiction

7.4.12 "Letters Across the Atlantic"

6.29.12 "Humiliation / A Young Wife," by D. H. Lawrence

6.29.12 "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

6.25.12 "New Year's Night / Mystery," by D.H. Lawrence

6.22.12 "A Decade," by Amy Lowell

6.15.12 "Muse," by Cee Martinez

6.08.12 "To Those Who Cut Us Down," by Emily Walker

6.01.12 "In Defense of Home," by Rebecca K. O'Connor

5.25.12 "A Woman and Her Dead Husband," by D. H. Lawrence

5.18.12 "A Zombie Apocalypse, in Three Acts"

5.11.12 "Z is for Zombie," by Kevin Lawver & Ficly.com

5.4.12 "How the Light Gets In," from Little Birds, by Sarah Flynn

4.27.12 "Where the Car Turns at Eighteenth," by Edna Ferber

4.20.12 "The Desire to Paint," by Charles Baudelair

4.13.12 "Oh-So-Real-Me," by Lighty & Ficly.com

4.06.12 The Mysterious Art of Eye Flirtation

3.30.12 "The Burned Letter," by Aleksandr Pushkin

3.23.12 Sonnet XVII - "I Do Not Love You..." by Pablo Neruda

3.16.12 Iron Maiden - flash fiction from Galen Sanford/6'Minute Story

3.9.12 The Lobster Quadrille, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

3.2.12 Best of Craigslist...but a sad one

2.24.12 Before, During, After - a Sara Teasdale Montage

2.17.12 Si Tu Me Olvidas / If You Forget Me, by Pablo Neruda

2.10.12 Love Song, by Mary Carolyn Davies

2.3.12 Early One Morning (Sung/Spoken)

1.27.12 Letter from John Steinbeck to His Son, Tom

1.20.12 Letter from Ansel Adams to Cedric Wright

1.13.12 No. 26 Wants... - Flash Fiction from X-Himy & 6'minutestory

1.6.12 No. 37 Raven Caws, By X-Himy & 6'minutestory

12.30.11 Seven Seals, by D. H. Lawrence

12.23.11 Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus - New York Sun

12.16.11 Home Burial, by Robert Frost

12.9.11 No. 19 Mary Ruth - flash fiction from X-Himy

12.2.11 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce

11.25.11 The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

11.18.11 A Triumvirate of Poems on Love, Loss

11.11.11 The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams

Special Halloween Edition - Double Dose of Edgar Allen Poe

The Raven (told as the story it really is)

The Tell-Tale Heart

10.21.11 "Revolutions" by B Kunath

10.14.11 The tragedy of Virginia Woolf

Last Letter of Virginia Woolf (to her husband)

10.7.11 Mirror, mirror on the wall...

Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs - A Tale of the Brothers Grimm

9.30.11 - Oh for the Love of a Banned Book!

Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence (w/comment from Lawrence)

9.23.11 - The Passionate Composer

Immortal Beloved #3, from Beethoven (two versions)

9.16.11 - Time for Some Microfiction...

9.09.11 - Inaugural Post

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