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Cigarette Light
Old man Jedidiah burned alive last night.
He had come home from the bar dripping with alcohol. When Jedidiah got drunk his wits tended to leave him for dead, and he insulted the wrong man…again. The beautiful bottle of brandy the found it’s way to crack against his skull seemed almost like poetic justice to the onlookers.
He stumbled his way home, his crinkling thin grey hair caked with blood…
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Mortality
Was published to Short Fiction Break: can find here
“I bet you didn’t think you’d die so soon,” Alister said, nail tapping against the patient monitor, to the rhythm of her thready heartbeat. A pair of aviators rested on the bridge of his nose, the lens so reflective it was almost like gazing into the surface of a mirror.
Banks had been avoiding mirrors. Avoided gazing upon her pallid…
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M.A.L.C.O.L.M. Chapter 13
<= Chapter 12 Chapter 14 Comming Soon=>
Olivia curled up on the couch tucking her legs tight against her body, leaning back into the cushions. “Ready?”
Holly nodded her head, her ballerina bun bouncing. With a deep breath, the little girl sank into a clumsy curtsy, and then she began to dance. She spun and twirled, and leapt, her little tight clad legs trembling…
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Nuckelavee
Went to Scotland this is a short story I wrote on the craziest supernatural creature I heard about while there. (Photo from the shores of Loch Ness)
The water was a dark frothing mass, broken only by the white tips of waves as they crested. Grabbing, curling fingers of wind, tugged at fabric, burned against skin. The sky darkened, the long twilight had begun. A wave crashed against rock, the…
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Iron Mortsafe
Long and black, the object makes no attempt to obscure its purpose. Thick iron walls intended to keep the living out and the dead in the ground where they belong. Anatomist grubby hands like to dig down in the earth and violate the corpse left to rot there. The names of Burke and Hare float through the streets, reminding people of the desirability of dead flesh, for the pursuit of…
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Ophelia's Agency: Part 5
Ophelia’s Agency: Part 5
This is an act of agency that cannot be shown by Ophelia, as she can no longer represent herself, but is instead seen by the most unlikely of characters, the man digging her grave, “SECOND MAN: The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Chris/tian burial /GRAVEDIGGER: How can this be, unless she drowned herself /In her own defense?” (5.1.5-7) This is a scene of paradoxical witticism and hints at a…
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Ophelia's Agency: Part 4
Ophelia’s Agency: Part 4
The next time we meet Ophelia she is mad. In the previous scene she participated in a battle of wits with Hamlet, now she seems to have used up all her wit, all her play acting, the constraints on her agency and her attempts to express herself have drained her. Before I go into Ophelia’s last desperate act of agency, consider the most famous speech to grace the European stage the, “To be or not…
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Ophelia's Agency: Part 3
Ophelia’s Agency: Part 3
Ophelia is surrounded by performance, Hamlet’s acting at being mad, Claudius acting at being just, Polonius acting at wisdom, the Queen’s acting at innocence (if she helped kill Old Hamlet). Steenbergh further states, “the forms, moods, and shapes in which an emotion is expressed can change the course of the emotion itself” (95). As each of these characters perform and express emotions they are…
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Ophelia's Agency: Part 2
Ophelia’s Agency: Part 2
If we now return to Laertes, Ophelia’s expression of agency in these constraints of being an unmarried noblewoman can be seen more clearly. At the moment of their parting, in an action that proves he really is Polonius’s son, Laertes gives his sisters advice in the form of a lengthy lecture. He describes the virtues of chastity and innocence, the need to distance herself from Hamlet since he…
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Ophelia’s Agency: Part 1
Ophelia’s Agency: Part 1
The character of Ophelia, or more accurately the bodily representation of Ophelia, has taken on a life of its own outside of William Shakespeare’s famous play, Hamlet. Most will acknowledge that when they hear the name Ophelia, images of a beautiful, overly sexualized girl trapped in a stream surrounded by flowers comes to mind. This image comes with ideas of naivety, innocence, and fragility,…
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Character Study: Scent of Life
Character Study: Scent of Life
The tree bark clung to the back of his bare knees as he stretched back, leaning his broad shoulders against the trunk. The fabric of his shorts was torn, dirt-stained and grass streaked. His bare feet were crossed at the ankles, as he lounged in the embrace of the great oak. (more…)
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Pearl the Power of Prose
Pearl the Power of Prose
In Borrof’s translation of the poem the “Pearl”, she uses the word “peer” in response to several Middle English words throughout the poem. The first instance of the word “peer” comes early in the poem in line 8 where the dreamer or speaker of the poem states, “Ever my mind was bound and bent/ to set her apart without a peer” (ll.7-8). This use of the word peer conveys his extreme depression while…
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M.A.L.C.O.L.M Chapter 12
<= Chapter 11 Chapter 13 Comming Soon=>
M.A.L.C.O.L.M kept his back exactly vertical, perching himself on the edge of Olivia’s couch, Tami sat across and to the side of him, her two children on the floor, all three content to blatantly stare at him. Olivia sat beside him, posture matching his, her discomfort evident.
“So…Malcolm was it?”
“Yes,”
“How did you meet…
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The Naivety of Charlotte: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov’s fascinating and shudder-inducing novel Lolita is full of irony and wit. One scene that powerfully explores this irony is when Charlotte Haze the mother of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive love, confesses her own love for Humbert.
The Character of the Children’s Guardian in “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James is a startling story about a Governess convinced her young wards are consorting with ghosts.
Pressure
A first scene to a new story idea of mine:
She liked to flirt with darkness, and darkness liked to flirt back. This inclination got her into a lot of trouble. This time it saved her.
A member of the research outpost of Riva-3, Raielyn’s job was that of psychological and sociological chronicler, which was simply a fancy term for someone who documents the human experience of life on a remote…
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Macbeth Imagery in the Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner is an intense tale of the life of a troubled family.