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  • "Modernist fiction, like Cubist painting, draws our attention to surfaces, not depths; to patterns, not particulars; to structures, not sentiments. The world becomes a complex diagram, in which characters are types, nei…

  • Three Lines Of Coke

    *Mental Train #2* Sometimes I go out of my way, re-adjusting the position of my foot so that I can step on a lone dried leaf, just so I can hear its crunchy death, and it makes me sad and happy at the same time knowing…

  • Like A Rolling Stone

    " How does it feel? ...to be on your own with no direction home ...a complete unknown Like a rolling stone." Life is supposed to be an adventure. I'm ti…

  • Van Gogh Syndrome

    To be an artist, or a writer, one must first accept the fact that he/she will have to sacrifice at least a little bit of their sanity in exchange for productivity. Besides the library, or the book store, I spend most of…

  • The Exorcism

    Ideas are what shape humanity and is the first building block that creates the structure of our civilization. Even a house, a garden, or an airplane started out as a vision in an individual's head. These ideas sometimes…

  • Contribute Your Poems And Short Short-Stories

    I have a new literary site which I'm trying to grow. It's a site where poems and micro-fiction (short short-stories) from contributors will be posted. Hopefully the site will grow large enough to gain more traffic so th…

  • Mr. Writer

    A young fellow asked for my advice on how he can be a better writer. I told him that I can't give him much advice on how to be a great writer, because creativity doesn't have a formula. But I did tell him this:Read arti…

  • Failed To Launch

    Anomaly I have my feet firmly plantedon a stratus cloud as my mindalternates its residence from realm to realm, but my sanity's intactonly because of poetry--my conscience, my shadow;the universe can only holdme back for…

  • Elemental

    Eleven Minutes To Sunrise The street is quiet exceptfor the sound of leavesscratching the concretemy alarm clock is unplugged,there's no need for it,I'm very much alive atthis brilliant hour take my soul and foldit prec…

  • Last song for tonight

    It's almost midnight and I'm working on my books--editing, checking for errors, you know...the unromantic part of being a writer--listening to Dntel and Ella Fitzgerald, reading Naomi Shihab Nye poems when I feel like t…

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