Tag: perspective
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Attempts (poem)
I must’ve been difficult to handle alone. My kind of trouble makes bones of bodies, sand of bones.
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The Now
I was standing on a high school soccer field the other night. A storm front had just rolled past; the air had cooled in its wake. But we never saw a drop of rain. The lights over the field began to glow just as the sky opened to a sunset of oranges, pale blues, and…
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It’s Personal: Some Provisional Insight into Creating Fictional Characters through Research
My character Tim is lonely like I imagine my old friend was lonely all those months he spent working for a lumber company, getting on planes and flying across the country.
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Where the Line Is
There’s a short story by Denis Johnson, “Emergency”. Maybe you know it. If you don’t, let me tell you a little about its most compelling scenes, the ones I can’t seem to get out of my head lately. The protagonist and Georgie are orderlies, and Georgie keeps mopping the floor of an otherwise spotless operating…
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Scale
Every few minutes or so, another car passed. More trucks than cars, actually; I’d left town behind and ventured into farm country, where plowed fields like the one captured in this post’s featured image dominate.
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The Ridge Road
Because things are tough today, I turn right instead of left out of the faculty lot. I’m thinking, maybe a different road will offer some perspective, or at the very least, time to gather myself.
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Finding Creative Space in the Memory of a Room that was Once Nearly Mine
I wrote one of my first successful – I should say “impactful” – stories in an upstairs room that had been recently vacated by a roommate of mine.
Patrick Faller 