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Daily Archives Monday, January 2008

100 Words: Lightning

My parents said we couldn’t swim on our side of the lake because a drunk guy had once fallen in and drowned. Every once and a while our swim sessions would be cut short by megaphoned monotones warning of lightning so would everyone please exit the water immediately .

Posted 21 January 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Shorts ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Describing Metal

Metal is a vague identifier that describes a subset of this multidimensional space, the boundaries of which are far from definite, and certainly not objective…. Sub-genres are sure to extend beyond this commonly held space, and not all sub-genres will occupy its entirety, necessarily (since some begin on the fringes and then continue into the distance).

Posted 21 January 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Work in Progress ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

14 Pieces of Music, 14 Lines of Text

Ear to thorax, hearing the sounds from a world to which we are outside, I know the essence of life and its living…. Unabashedly, we look into the furnaces that forged this people from the ore of time in the bowels of the earth, in all our glorious good and hideous evil.

Posted 21 January 2008 † Yuletide § Exercises § Multimedia ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,