Tag: Prose
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Room for Improvement
You know those moments where you cringe to think about how far you’ve come in life in terms of thoughtfulness, only to completely fail in one stupid, thoughtless moment? Yeah. I had one of those moments last week. My roommate works with autistic people. I know this. I know a small amount about the autistic…
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Prayer and Prejudice
Today, my Grandad turns 86. His birthday is today; his brother, my Great Uncle Donald’s birthday is tomorrow. When my sister and I were born, they placed bets on whose birthday we would share. My Grandad won — they always used to joke that that’s why he loves us so much. Uncle Donald is actually…
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Good Intentions
There’s only so many excuses that you can give when your room has been messy for about four months. Or reasons that you haven’t spent more time on your book, or reasons that you haven’t put together your presentation. Or reasons that you haven’t touched Celtx for about a month. Or reasons that your weekly…
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Doer’s Block
Have you ever had that feeling where you’re about bursting with creativity, but not in the mood to write? No? Just me? I can’t be the only one. I have those moments all the time, where I have all these really great story ideas, and characters coming out of my ears, but as soon as…
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She
She still forgets her keys on the counter, and she still tends to rush out the door to work without having made lunch. But she loves her job, and she loves her friends, and though she wishes she had more time for the things she loves to do, she still thinks her life is pretty…
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Re-reactions
“I’ve found that one of the pleasures and terrors of writing for an audience is that the book that someone reads is never quite the book you wrote.” – John Green When 8 different directors set out to make 8 different films, which were then nominated for this year’s Best Picture for the Academy Awards,…
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The Contentment of the Discontented State
Guys, space is so cool. I have been (slowly) reading “Pale Blue Dot” by Carl Sagan, a book that purposefully makes you feel very small, but in a very good, very enlightening way. It’s amazing how a little space talk can get you lost in a world of awe in mere seconds; and sometimes, it’s…
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Bring On 2016
I go back and forth with my feelings about New Year’s Resolutions. Sometimes, when I’m in a particularly productive mood, I love resolutions and think they’re humanity’s best friend; and other times, after I’ve tried to accomplish certain resolutions for eleven months and twenty-some-odd days, I hate them for the humanity-sucking leeches that they are.…
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Doing Christmas Wrong
It is Saturday morning. The majority of Midtown Harrisburg is still, the result of those relishing the laziness of a day off combined with the scattered few still recovering from HMAC hangovers. And a marching band begins to play. I open the door, and behind me Liz comes bounding down the stairs. “Is that a real…
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Hornet’s Nest
I had a dream the other night. I dreamt that I was with two people; one was a friend, and one used to be a friend. And I began to tell my friend about the time I had a hornet’s nest in my bedroom. It started off with just a small, papery notch in the…