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Knock Knock
Early one morning, under the arc of a lamp, carefully, silently, in smock and rubber gloves, old Doctor Manza grafted a cat’s head on to a chicken’s…
Nina Schuyler
Aug 8
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Viking Pyre=Death and Cremation
or synecdoche
Nina Schuyler
Aug 4
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The Terrible and the Beautiful
(not...but) the world of contrast
Nina Schuyler
Jul 31
1
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All Syntactical Hell Breaks Loose
(or ellipsis)
Nina Schuyler
Jul 28
2
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Can You Repeat That?
The Brother, bathed and fed, had been taken in to sleep with the grown-ups; now, fussing, he was carried out by the Mother, who stood on the verandah…
Nina Schuyler
Jul 24
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My Dear Acquaintance, Cut it Out
Whenever his mind was sufficiently clear he used his gifts to knock me. Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift When I read this sentence, the narrator comes…
Nina Schuyler
Jul 21
5
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Listen closely
Think of van Gogh, painting that spatter of crows furling out over the wheat; dragging into the safe stillness of art, one untiring wing after another…
Nina Schuyler
Jul 17
5
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I'll Unhair Thy Head
Antony and Cleopatra, W. Shakespeare
Nina Schuyler
Jul 14
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Lively and Alive
The City is smart at this: smelling and good and looking raunchy; sending secret messages disguised as public signs: this way, open here, danger to let…
Nina Schuyler
Jul 10
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Sand=Carpet
The sand is swept clean, blown clean, cleared of the crumbs left on the carpet, of what the cat tracked in, the sea dragged in. Toni Mirosevich, “This…
Nina Schuyler
Jul 7
4
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A Playground of Play
Ma is better again, time has been turned back, the world is restored. The Promise, by Damon Galgut A Little Self-Promotion My Creative Writing Journal…
Nina Schuyler
Jul 3
2
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Four or more
To suffer, to labor, to toil and force your way through the spikes of life, to crawl through its darkest caverns, to push through the worst, to struggle…
Nina Schuyler
Jun 30
6
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