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		<title>My Blue Period</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/03/10/my-blue-period</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Blocked]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Ridge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[.

Ryan Ridge shares a birthday with Johnny Carson and Weird Al. He has work in or coming from Abjective, The Collagist, decomP, DIAGRAM, &#62; kill author, The Los Angeles Review, Titular, and others. He lives in Southern California and co-edits Faultline.
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		<title>The Slush Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/02/24/the-slush-machine</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/02/24/the-slush-machine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Waldman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Shakespeare Were Alive Today</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/02/16/if-shakespeare-were-alive-today</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/02/16/if-shakespeare-were-alive-today#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Graupe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[3.15.06
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

———-
6.3.06
Dear Contributor,
I deleted your submission unread, as I specifically stated on page three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fragments</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/02/09/fragments</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/02/09/fragments#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helen Dring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These 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:
Don’t leave
Because maybe
The train leaves at
That time you told me
And I think I forgot -
Buy milk.
Helen Dring lives in Liverpool with a dog who likes to eat books. She has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from a week of handwriting</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/02/03/lessons-from-a-week-of-handwriting</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/02/03/lessons-from-a-week-of-handwriting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Spidle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scribble scratch a swiggle sways and loo
       oooo
       oooo
       ps down under
              across

the graph paper my pen
       wa–
              nd–
                     er–
                            s
                                   finding intuition
to be a most gallant enemy.
The letters slanted
              slither
into stylistic neologismsand I scribble out another word.
Try, again
       again
       again
       again
       again
with the penfixed
              RIGIDLY
              di/g/g/in/g/
              into my forefinger
              fighting
              with my mind to say,
       “Curve this way again and again we can swoop and fly free through the lines!”
The blue ink flows in
                                                                                    blots
                                                                      bled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Piece of Writing</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/01/26/this-piece-of-writing</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/01/26/this-piece-of-writing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darby Larson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I fell in love with this piece of writing about fifteen minutes ago when I decided to start writing it. Rather, I fell in love with the idea of writing it, since it didn’t exist yet. But now that I have started writing it, I am officially in love with this piece of writing. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three poems</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/01/18/three-poems-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/01/18/three-poems-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iDrew]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[iLove Letters
when you
play with the pearl
of my earlobe
on the tip
of your tongue
it’s like a ninja move
you render me helpless
as if i’ve forgotten
how to breathe
 
and i’m in fear
of coming apart
as you kiss
my belly undo
the button
on my jeans and let
the zip un-tooth
 
just a little bit
 
whilst you talk
in tapestries
about a summer sweet perfume
woven with sunshine promises
 
but come on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poet (a fable)</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/01/12/the-poet-a-fable</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/01/12/the-poet-a-fable#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Loory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A man sits down and writes a poem. It is not a great poem, he knows, but still, he has written it, and so it makes him feel proud. Everywhere he goes, he recites it in his head.
Then one day the man has a great idea.

I will send my poem off to be published! he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These are my pictures</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/01/06/these-are-my-pictures</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2010/01/06/these-are-my-pictures#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lydia Unsworth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are my pictures:
.
.     …  „;;,&#62;;)(8(..
.     _===-0
.@;-o0opopoioi90897678pjk[l:@JHyF)(87&#38;*67*89)o:’;@

.
.
     h h h nnno    5ruouuuuupowpiuu — with each tap I get a perfect note.  Each impulse results in another perfect character.
Each line and
                                                                          space
 
 
 
controlled by my whim.  punctuation is, mine;     Me controls
          grammar.    
    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blockbuster</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/12/07/blockbuster</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/12/07/blockbuster#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Bionic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ulber Krang was stabbed to death with his own pen.
It was night and ever-so quieter than usual. His office, cluttered with cigar tins, incense and curled-up paperbacks, was a small dot inside a massive estate. The grounds had grand trees and sweeping drives. The A-road beyond the ornate gates had faded from a peak-hour rumble [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Foot</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/11/17/big-foot</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/11/17/big-foot#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Plumer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eulogy
“He weren’t going to have his life stomped out by no big foot,” said the one in the black plaid Goodwill suit, winging a shriveled rose down onto the coffin.

“No, sir, he weren’t going to have his life stomped out by no size 170½ shoe. He weren’t going to, he wouldn’t have it,” said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times New Roman</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/11/11/times-new-roman</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/11/11/times-new-roman#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Chen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Friday nights had nothing to do with Times New Roman, besides the fact that the former was rendered from the latter. Feeling a little hungry and a lot horrible, Times New Roman ordered some pizza.
“How large is your medium?” it asked.

“You see the semantic problem with that question, right?” said Jules.
“What the hell is wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Submission</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/11/05/submission</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/11/05/submission#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russell Berrisford]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for submitting
and I have read with care
but it’s not what I am after
I wish you luck elsewhere

I direct you to our guidelines
where it’s clear that what we want
is writing that is written
in a quite specific font
The attachment is important
and I’m afraid it has occurred
that the words we have to read
are in the wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Bailey is a drunken face to love</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/10/29/daniel-bailey-is-a-drunken-face-to-love</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/10/29/daniel-bailey-is-a-drunken-face-to-love#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ani Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reading THE DRUNK SONNETS (published by Magic Helicopter Press) makes me want to sit on Daniel Bailey’s lap, take the whiskey bottle from his hand, put it down on the table, grab his face between my palms, squeeze his cheeks and mouth into a fish pout and stare at his irises for a really long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best of the Web</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/10/20/best-of-the-web</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/10/20/best-of-the-web#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloc business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaughan Simons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writers’ Bloc is proud to announce its nominations for this year’s Dzanc Books Best of the Web.

First, however, I feel that I should take a moment to clarify—perhaps only for the sake of avoiding legal action from aggrieved LOLcats sites and Japanese Manga filth portals—that this isn’t the Best of the Entire Web. No, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Clock</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/10/14/the-big-clock</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/10/14/the-big-clock#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ravi Mangla]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We started a literary journal called ‘Black Cock’. Like ‘Black Clock’, only with ‘Cock’ instead of ‘Clock’, and with black cocks interspersed throughout the pages, owing not to any particular affinity or affection for black cocks … it just seemed to fit.

Our books were expertly bound. Our subscription rates were fair. We believed in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Blake Butler</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/10/07/interview-blake-butler</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/10/07/interview-blake-butler#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Spivey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blake Butler was kind enough to do an interview with me at his home in Atlanta. The interview took place in mid-June, 2009.
Butler is the author of EVER (Calamari Press) and Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books). He is the editor of the internet journal Lamination Colony, and he co-edits the print journal No Colony. He blogs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bermuda Triangle, My Broken Compass</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/09/28/the-bermuda-triangle-my-broken-compass</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/09/28/the-bermuda-triangle-my-broken-compass#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blocked]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Beeny]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1. Pixilated Rainbows
I play Tetris when I have writer’s block, inserting bricks like memory cards into walls that have forgotten where we live and, already, what we’ve built.

Better yet:
I play Tetris when I have writer’s block — I imagine peeling a big bag of Rubik’s cubes like onions, their strips falling toward the bottom of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bad Poem</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/09/22/the-bad-poem</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/09/22/the-bad-poem#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reynard Seifert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[hobo dinners on the half shell
asian girls in tupac tees
white guys with chink eyes
the cobble stones are paved with blood
from rats that hide
beneath the street

Wow, he said to himself. This poem means nothing. But he didn’t want to say that to his friend who wanted to be a writer, because his friend who wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pity Party</title>
		<link>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/09/17/pity-party</link>
		<comments>http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/09/17/pity-party#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Sullivan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Columbus Day, Noon.
When I click open my inbox the name pops up.  I’m not sure how to feel.  Excited, but also nervous.  This agent has shown interest once before, the only one so far.  I breathe in, staring at the name in the inbox.  This needs to be good.

I open [...]]]></description>
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