Tag: literature
group name: myguild
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November 17, 2006 06:06 AM EST --
It was the hardest winter in his memory. He shivered heavily in the piercing winter wind as the full Moon peeped through the pale yellow sheath of snow. The view of the village in the yellow moonlight . . . more
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December 06, 2006 10:26 AM EST --
Death is always an interesting subject of poetry. A lot of beautiful poems, that depicts the philosophical beauty of death, are here in our gather community also. My memories go back to the college . . . more
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August 27, 2007 04:51 PM EDT --
The woman stretched her hand into the blackness in search of something to keep her warm but found nothing. Cold and vacant air and the shadowed earth long forgotten by stars and light. Her fingers . . . more
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November 29, 2006 01:56 AM EST --
He sat in the Metro train to the airport with a swollen heart. His mind hesitated to give up hope and his eyes scanned each metro station for her.
She was his childhood friend. He met her again . . . more
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October 11, 2007 04:10 PM EDT --
The early morning now and you wake in bed and there, scrawled on the ceiling in black paint or motor oil, is a choice. Sleep all day, it reads. The words light and airy within your head. You notice the . . . more
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June 21, 2007 07:29 PM EDT --
Sandy is an octopus and not. She was born with seven arms, and in the eyes of the cephalopod world this fact alone disqualifies her from being considered a true octopus. (After all, only males . . . more
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October 16, 2007 07:34 PM EDT --
The chair is your dad's. A white fabric recliner someone dumped in the alley. The seat cushion is spill stained and the armrests frazzled to the point where thin locks of padding can be tugged out. . . . more
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December 07, 2006 11:53 AM EST --
Matthew Arnold was the most influential critic among the Victorians. For him ‘literature is a criticism of life'. Arnold did not limit the term criticism to literary criticism, for him . . . more
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November 14, 2007 12:38 PM EST --
Begin with a memory. A memory from the childhood you left abandoned somewhere in that uneven and distant horizon, where suns no longer rise, but set and burn the earth top a charred black. Think . . . more
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February 16, 2007 08:04 PM EST --
The Short Short Story Corner
By Charles Lennox IV
An author had an idea while driving to work and searched the car for a pen, any pen, with which to jot it down. The idea, naturally, . . . more
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January 24, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
There's this girl Barry thinks he's falling in love with, which means soon, probably in a day or two, he'll feel compelled to tell her about his foot. He will bring it up in the middle . . . more
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March 05, 2007 11:42 AM EST --
The Allergic Reaction
She’s beautiful, this girl, Donna is her name, and I keep eye contact despite the sharp headache it causes, twisting behind my right eyeball. I refuse to look . . . more
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October 16, 2007 03:04 PM EDT --
In the dream she'd wandered a wood packed in snow and was without her left arm from the elbow down. Blood dripped out from the severed arm and imbued half her side in a red that gleamed in the darkness . . . more
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October 22, 2007 05:50 PM EDT --
Stuart's seven-month pregnant wife is afraid of the wind. She tells him this on a windy day, a day where the tree leaves, all green, tumble end over end down the street, some as fast as the cars . . . more
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October 23, 2007 04:36 PM EDT --
He'd been sick all day, not eating, and now there was nothing left to vomit but warm stomach acid and bile. He sipped water from the glass she'd set on the nightstand that morning and the glass . . . more
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October 19, 2007 03:28 PM EDT --
She tells me about the gossip early one morning in someone's office with the lights off and her back pinned against the closed door, our faces so close I feel her breath puffing against my mouth . . . more
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April 05, 2007 03:29 PM EDT --
The Short Short Story Corner
A Meeting About Ron
By Charles Lennox
“So it’s agreed,” the leader of the meeting begins, “we’re all here because we hate Ron.” . . . more
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December 14, 2006 06:18 PM EST --
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There is the neighborhood street, and at the end of each driveway is a mailbox, an overflowing trash bin, and a dead Christmas tree slouching against the trash bin. All the Christmas . . . more
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March 19, 2007 04:03 PM EDT --
The Short Short Story Corner
By Charles Lennox
While on holiday, the giant spent two hours channel surfing without finding a single program to his liking. There was the show about a New . . . more
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June 02, 2007 12:08 PM EDT --
The Week's article "How the law penalizes writers and inventors," comments on Mark Helprin's Op-Ed in May 20 th 's New York Times: A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't . . . more
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