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Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueOutcast by Sadie JonesThe Hours by Michael CunninghamUndressing the Moon by T. GreenwoodThe Road by Cormac...
View Article"Sometimes I roll your name around in my mouth like a lost tooth, he...
“Sometimes I roll your name around in my mouth like a lost tooth, he declared. Not because it’s a beautiful name, not because it reminds me of you, but because it’s stuck there and won’t come out. Its...
View Articlebuilding skeletons
You and I are building a skeleton in your closet,picking off our bones like vultures and stringing them together.We use your kneecaps and clavicles, my ribs and teeth.Once I saw a man in Central Park...
View Articleself-reminder
you can do this you can do this you can do this you can do this you can do thisyou will do this you will do this you will do this you will do this you will do thisyou are doing this you are doing this...
View ArticleI dont know if you remember me. But I wrote to you a time ago. My boyfriend...
I wish you knew how glad I am to hear that. I’ve never met you but I’m so proud of you just the same. You did it. Now stay safe, okay? <3
View Article"Why do you sleep with ghosts? she wondered. And the other girl replied,...
“Why do you sleep with ghosts? she wondered. And the other girl replied, Because they are invisible lovers. It’s like running your hands under the faucet: everything slips through their skin. It makes...
View Articleon the collision of glaciers
In Germany when a young girl dies her parents take her body to the riverand slip it beneath the dark waters. And there she lies,her arms drifting out from her sides like lilies.My father tells me I...
View Articlebulletholes
I still undress out of habit whenever there’s a full moon.It took me years to understand that this, too, is a small war:no one wants to love a lonely lovely loverwho is still swollen with grieflike a...
View ArticleWriting tip: You always use "she wondered" and "the other person replied",...
Oh, but that would take away the whole point. Then the reader could be confused as to who is speaking, what gender the speaker is, etc.I want there to be two distinct characters in the Fragments, not...
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“My name is Ernest Miller Hemingway. I was born on July 21,...
“My name is Ernest Miller Hemingway. I was born on July 21, 1899. My favorite authors are Kipling, O. Henry and Steuart Edward White. My favorite flower is lady slipper and tiger lily. My favorite...
View ArticleWriting Playlist 2
1. Ray LaMontagne-Trouble2. Ryan Adams-Sylvia3. The National-Apartment Story4. Youth Lagoon-Montana5. Imagine Dragons-It’s Time6. Robert Pattinson-It’s All On You7. Bright Eyes-Train Under Water8. The...
View Article"You’ve never said I love you in all the time we’ve been together, she...
“You’ve never said I love you in all the time we’ve been together, she remarked. I know, he replied. I’m a black hole, devoid of all emotion. You can get in, but you won’t ever come back out.” -...
View Articleon "fat" vs beautiful
The man who tells you you’re beautiful but doesn’t respond when you ask Just the way I am? is the one you need to leave. Make him point to a photo in a magazine of a size 6 woman or a size 2 woman,...
View Articlerussian roulette
We began by playing Russian Roulette with our teeth instead of with bullets.Our bodies are syllables that have to be strung together like pebblesin order to form words:“undress” used to be my favorite...
View Article"This is about the ghosts we conjure out of the dark for ourselves because...
“This is aboutthe ghosts we conjure out of the dark for ourselvesbecause we’re too afraid to sleep alone.” - Hauntings
View ArticleKatrina
The man on the subway is crying with his eyes closedbecause that’s the only way he ever learned how to love.After Hurricane Katrina one thousand and two messages were foundfloating in glass bottles off...
View Article"You’re just like Braille, he said to her. In what way? she inquired. I never...
“You’re just like Braille, he said to her. In what way? she inquired. I never want to stop running my palms over you, reading every single dip and curve. You’re the only language I was ever fluent in,...
View Article"Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them."
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.” - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art (via 4mbivalent)
View Articlefloodings
The weather forecast speaks only of endless rain.Our bodies are like trees that constantly reach to the sky,yet always long to hang themselves from their own branches.I once encountered a homeless man...
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