Suzette Receives her First Place Book Award from FWA Contest Chair Terri DuLong

 

By Suzette Martinez Standring

 

“I’m an astronaut waiting to launch,” I thought. On November 14, The Endeavor space shuttle flamed through Florida’s night skies. But that was nothing compared to the rocket fuel in my veins as I waited to hear if my book had placed The Florida Writers

 

        President Barack Obama - not since the 1960’s has such a youthful and creative exuberance changed society.  I was in San Francisco, my old hometown, on election night where young men and women shouted victory, waved signs and danced in the streets.  Collectively determined to break the mold (and I really do mean “mould”), youthful voting power debuted at the polls.  And honey, they were

 

By Suzette Martinez Standring

 

    Almost everyone has a personality hiccup. I imagine myself to be coolly collected, but I often gasp out loud for no good reason.

 

    Maybe it’s because my mind reels with undone tasks, bad moments and close calls, both minor and major.  An imaginary brush with a serial killer or forgetting to buy the bacon, it’s all the same.  A sudden holler pops out at the oddest

 

By: Suzette Martinez Standring

 

 

        Just like a movie star, bodyguards surrounded me. But I was merely a dwarf planet in the security orbit that surrounded Shimon Peres, president of the State of Israel. By my count, he and his morning meal were protected by fourteen secret service men.

 

    David and I were having breakfast at the New York Palace Hotel when the Israeli president appeared.  (

 

By Suzette Martinez Standring

 

    It’s the pursuit of dewy, wide-eyed youthfulness, and surely, I am wide-eyed at the cost.  When it comes to skincare, expect to pay about $5.28 per syllable.

 

    Bio-Performance Advanced Super Revitalizing Cream

    Extra Firming Tightening Lift Botanical Serum

    Beaute Initiale: Energizing Multi-Protection Cream

    

    To be confused by words like “Prevage” or “BX serum”