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Boys, Widow, and The Zen Thing
The past month has been a season of workshops and rewrites. I’m close to completing another version of one of my short stories for my creative-writing class; it’s a piece that I’ve been working on for pretty much most of the semester. I’m also planning my summer living arrangements, (hoping, praying, begging the universe that things just […]
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Emergency, Moonwalk, and Testimony of A Pilot
I’ve written three short stories this semester. And when I say written, I don’t mean finished. I’ve also started submitting a pretty good story from last semester that I’m pretty proud of to over twenty literary journals. No bites yet, but I think I managed to somehow get a higher tier rejection from Granta Magazine […]
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Not Exactly Goodbye and Only For A Little While
My first semester at the University of Louisville is over and my second semester at the University of Louisville has begun. I feared many things happening when I first moved to Louisville. None of them happened. Some good things did; I got to do some writing and I’ve settled very cosily into the life of a creative-writing […]
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The Rider, Hamlet, and A Doll’s House
Need caught up on my blog? I am a non-traditional college student who has decided to read The Norton Introduction to Literature: Shorter 11th Edition by Kelly J. Mays word-for-word, just because. My 5th semester in college is coming to a close. I had to shift my focus to my classes and assignments over the last […]
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Poem, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, and Gotham
Lately I’ve become obsessed with poems that have the title “Poem”. There was one in a recently assigned section of The Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter 11th Edition) in my English 300 class. It’s by Frank O’Hara, and it is on page 678 of the Norton book, if anyone else is following along for some freaking reason. […]
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The Night of the Satellite, Mr. T, and Richard Cory
Need caught up on my blog? I’m a gay 27 year old writer who decided to quit his job and start college. I also decided to read The Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter 11th Edition) by Kelly J. Mays, word for word and blog about every story in it so that I can pretend that […]
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Cane, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons
Need caught up on my blog? I’m a gay 27 year old college student who has decided to completely read every page of The Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter 11th Edition), by Kelly J. Mays, just because. I also read other stuff and watch movies and tv shows. Okay, now you’re caught up. Yesterday was […]
Bad blogger. Complicated. Gay.