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| Writer's profile for 'Michael Gates' | |
| Email address | gatesmichael@verizon.net |
| City | Jersey City |
| State | NJ |
| Country | USA |
| Sex | Male |
| Interests | current events, media, literature, hiking, woods, photography, fish, surrealism |
| Short bio | Writer, editor, blogger. I'm working on a book! |
| Comments | Visit my website: http://michaelgates.blogspot.com/ |
| The Towers (standard:non fiction, 1881 words) | |||
| Author: Michael Gates | Added: Jan 19 2002 | Views/Reads: 3728/2347 | Story vote: 0.00 (1 vote) |
| This is an essay about my experience on September 11th, 2001, and my "relationship" with the twin towers of the World Trade Center. | |||
| Time for a Bath? (standard:non fiction, 406 words) | |||
| Author: Michael Gates | Added: Mar 08 2002 | Views/Reads: 3809/1 | Story vote: 0.00 (4 votes) |
| Some thoughts on the bath vs. shower issue. | |||
| Cool: A Character Sketch (standard:humor, 528 words) | |||
| Author: Michael Gates | Added: May 19 2002 | Views/Reads: 3681/1 | Story vote: 0.00 (4 votes) |
| Smoking is bad, but Hollywood keeps telling us that cigarettes are sexy. Here's a guy who thinks he's solved that dilemma. | |||
| Behind the Eight Ball (standard:other, 474 words) | |||
| Author: Michael Gates | Added: Mar 11 2003 | Views/Reads: 5265/2539 | Story vote: 0.00 (3 votes) |
| A dialogue with an Eight Ball proves revealing. | |||
| A Visit to Madame Claude's (standard:humor, 567 words) | |||
| Author: Michael Gates | Added: Oct 06 2003 | Views/Reads: 3760/1 | Story vote: 0.00 (1 vote) |
| A 12-year-old Burger King fan visits a French restaurant. | |||
| The Night I Joined the "Cirkus" (standard:non fiction, 898 words) | |||
| Author: Michael Gates | Added: Feb 16 2004 | Views/Reads: 3524/4 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| "I was beginning to realize that this would be no ordinary circus . . . My spouse insisted on sitting in the front row, which I knew could be trouble. I had a strong premonition that this was going to be one of those audience-participation spectacles | |||
| Would YOU Make a Good 'Manger'? (standard:Satire, 340 words) | |||
| Author: Michael Gates | Added: Jul 17 2012 | Views/Reads: 6694/0 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| Thoughts on typos. Those little slips of the mind or the typing fingers are easy to spot -- as long as they are made by other people. | |||