Depending on their imaginative powers, a snowfall can remind people of moulting angel-wings, of perishing mayflies or of a defective TV screen. When the Assistant Submissions Editor of Conglomerated Publishing, Inc. emerged from the subway that day into a swirl of snowflakes, he tried to be reminded of nothing at all—snow is snow is snow—but couldn’t help thinking, as usual, of millions of manuscript pages being shredded on high.
Archive for February 2010
If Shakespeare Were Alive Today
In Fiction on 16 February, 20103.15.06
Dear Editor,
Attached is my poetry submission for your consideration: Venus and Adonis. I am a new writer and thought your site the perfect match for this poem. Thank you for your time in reading this.
Beware the Ides of March,
William Shakespeare
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Fragments
In Poetry on 9 February, 2010These words were forgotten and found and cut up
On strips and sheets and folds
Of paper lining
Lanes and avenues and streets.
When I had finished stitching, I read: Read the rest of this entry »
Lessons from a week of handwriting
In Process on 3 February, 2010Scribble scratch a swiggle sways and loo
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ps down under
across