Warm-Up

Write for 10 minutes. Introduce a character, a conflict, and end the mini-story with one of the provided phrases. (I chose “And then she closed the window.”)
Victoria sat in her room, staring out into the cold, winter day. She was very sad, but it was a different sort of sadness. She wanted to feel sadness, [...]

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Shades

Awkwardness comes in many infinite shades,
like pretty faces.
Or homely ones.
Or senses of humor.
Or laughter.
And it’s merely a matter of finding a shade
that catches your eye.
Or mind.
Or taste.
Or touch.
Your awkwardness is what drew me in,
from your hidden corner, valiantly hoping against all hope
that no one will notice your very personal shade.
For now, this is all I [...]

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Take Off

City
lights
emulate
the night
sky, offering
up glowing
balls of
varying size arranged in systematic
constellations. Meteors with cone-shaped tails travel backwards
in long, predictable two-way paths. As the aeroplane soars higher
into the cold clouds of the night, I stare at civilization,
slowly but
surely, being
reduced to
empty
lights next
to dancing darkness.
Songs of the Day:
Teitur – “Poetry and Aeroplanes”
Elton John – “Rocket Man”

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A Second Person Love Story – Version A, or Part 1, or Chapter 1

R.I.P. David Foster Wallace.
“He illuminated the maze brilliantly, even if he couldn’t show us the way out.”
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Here you are, reading this copy of “A Second Person Love Story” by Michael Kim. It’s quite a lengthy piece of work, especially for a short story. Go ahead, scroll down and check out the wall of text in [...]

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To a Girl and a College

This post is for National Blog Posting Month, which was brought to my attention by the lovely and hilarious Essaytch. They have something different every month and for April, the objective is to write a letter a day for a month. I’m obviously not writing a letter a day but I’m participating anyway.
And I’m sneaking [...]

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