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One last piece from the course. Another flashback, but that's the way it goes. Without further ado, here's ( Glory Days )

Time for a wee spot of fiction. This one got away from me, though, and came out longer then I was expecting. Oh well. ( Read more... )

So, here we go again. A prose poem. It's about going to ( Regina )

So, the last assignment we had to do was a sonnet. Originally meant to be a poem to woo one's object of desire, I decided to do one from the other side of the relationship - the very end. ( Here's how it went )

Here's the first little piece I did. The assignment was to write something from the point of view of a lemon, writing desk or a ( reptile. )

By popular demand, here's what I'm doing in class.

First up is the Glosa - a poem constructed using 4 consecutive lines from *another* poem. The 'borrowed' lines appear at lines 10, 20, 30 and 40. They also share a rhyme with lines 6 and 9 in each stanza (line 10 being a borrowed line).

So, without further ado I present ( Love in Starbucks )

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From English class on Monday ( Read more... )

I've been on Champix (new window) for the last 17 days. It's pretty nifty stuff. It's the latest in the smoking-cessation drug category ( Read more... )