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Lucille is a workshop leader for the Florida Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress. Her poetry and fiction appear in journals and anthologies, including: The MonaPoetica anthology, Slant, Gulfstream, Poetic Voices without Borders, and Still Going Strong. She's the author of two chapbooks of poems: What You Cannot Have, The Substance of Sunlight, and a mini-chapbook:Godd, It’s Not Hollywood. Recent awards include third prize for a poem, awarded by Common Ground Review, first prize for a prose poem, awarded by the Nat'l League of Pen Women: Nob Hill Branch, and honorable mention for a short story awarded by the R. Rofihy Trophy.

Family Trees

                     Francoise Miderot, a French prostitute, married Kurt Von Schmelling, a German General. Their son, Klaus Von Schmelling, a pimp who excelled at martial arts, married Anita Baker, an American songstress. Their daughter, Ariana Von Schmelling, a black-belted, large-busted model, sang country music songs and married Addison Klune, an actor. His mother, Rosita Klune introduced them after she met Ariana in karate class.
                    Rosita had also been a surrogate mother for Xenia Florenzo, an Egyptian belly dancer. Addison and Ariana Klune divorced shortly after their son, Mark Klune, an actor who starred in Westerns and martial arts films, switched to pimping for exotic film stars. When Xenia grew too fat to belly dance, she worked for Mark in the oldest profession. Sometimes, they made pornographic films. He could ride her like a horse, while she did bumps and grinds to country music.
                  Rosita became a loving grandmother to Xenia's only child, Mafouz Florenzio, the great barrel- chested operatic tenor who liked to cross-dress and sing falsetto in private. No one knew his father. In interviews with the press, Mafouz traced his lineage to French and German composers.