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The premise of this exercise is to take a sentence that you appreciate and re-write it so as to explore the varying dynamics and attributes of sentences. Sentence #1 Original: Excerpt from Volume I, Chapter XV of Jane Austen’s Emma To restrain him as much as might be, by her own manners, she was immediately…
A digestion of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s White Nights Appetizer Translated by Ronald Meyer, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s White Nights is a short story based in St. Petersburg which narrates the life cycle of a relationship characterized by candid vulnerability. Dense Plot Condensed. Meeting over the course of four nights, the story’s narrator and Nastenka instantly bond over synchronized…
Question. What is “education”? Stories to help “mind-thing” dive-into “question-thing”: Scripture and myth exalt the important life-force that is education: Leaving the garden. Being given the tool of fire. Knowing “good” and “evil.” The ability to think independently. A necessity for survival. A disobedience. Both a gift and something stolen. Something worth making sacrifices for.1…
“It only looks high up because your head is at the top of your body” I told you while we held hands, Standing two-thousand-feet from land. This was before the braces Fixed your buck teeth And you grew to six-two. This was when we wore matching onesies, And before we wore shoes. When we stood…
Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. ASHTRAY. CITRUS CHARDONNAY. CHILD’S PLAY. LATE MAY. AFFECTION. MERIT. THEN POMEGRANATE. In mustard-seed-time, three months between canines. My heart bumps extra thump-umps. Adrenalined. FISHING. ICE CREAM. LONG LIMBS. Blurry, tangled lines. Heavy metal. Banging heads. Sun-burned. Love-brimmed. LOVELY. But then,…
eat my words. 