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Mark Stratton

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mark Stratton is a writer and poet who lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife and three cats. His work has appeared in The Book Times, Four and Twenty, The American Zig-Zag Volume One, Media Virus Magazine and elsewhere. He is the author of a self-published collection titled 'Tender Mercies' and a limited edition chapbook "Postmarks." He likes pie.


My father is a quiet man. Not to say he doesn’t like to talk, but there is nothing booming about his personality. He is possessed of a dry with and likes to pun, be a bit silly and doesn’t take himself seriously.


For example, as I was growing up he repeated the following bit of drivel often enough that I learned it.


“One fine day in the middle of the night,

Two dead boys got up to fight,

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Average rating: 4.25 · 40 ratings · 15 reviews · 5 distinct works · Similar authors
Tender Mercies
4.53 of 5 stars 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011
Postmarks
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010
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