M! Polo!
Ma! Pol!
Mar! Po!
Marc! P!
Marco STOP it you are DROWNING ME!

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in-class exercise 04.02

It took an infinity for my mother to tell her children that the gateway to hell was in the dishwasher drain. She had dealt with this condemnation for years. Protective and bitter over the flames and sulfurous spit vomiting out when she removed the plates and cups, occasionally a casserole. One dinner party, when she [...]

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in-class exercise, 04.03

Even his thoughts became as dull, as perfunctory, as the coarse change in his pockets. His thoughts were pale. No embarrassments, like the time his fly was unzipped and he had no underwear on. His thoughts, his situation, broke none of his mother’s precious vases. He was just lusting after his client’s wife after she [...]

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See above

Marco, Polo!
Marco, Polo!
Marco, Polo!
Marco, Polo!
Marco, Polo!
Marco, Polo!
STOP IT, YOU’RE DROWNING ME!

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Extraordinary – Ordinary

I have had to write this, if only to keep the warship knot of my personal life from becoming ordinary. Adultery is a very ordinary thing, just a series of clever impulses that wind through dinner parties, blocking out childhood memories and college flings. Simply another fear of getting caught, the likes of which you [...]

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That in-class exercise

A snowstorm paints the candy canes, the huts, the barrels of toys. The dead salesman, who died in some play, was in search of his father. So he materializes out of this snowstorm and finds himself knocking of Father Christmas’ industrial-revolution era monstrous edifice. After receiving an exhaustive pat on the back, his childhood memories [...]

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Old notebooks

will return to later

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My skewed stranger studies

Metronome Practice
I used to practice I used to practice wrong notes right notes I When I was little I used to I used to think the wrong notes were prettier than the right ones. But this predilection has been chiseled out of me, and I am happier more content hungrier because of it. Eventually the [...]

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Non-fiction wrap up

creative-non-fiction-wrap-up.doc

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draft of abandoned non-fiction project

A Transcription of Un Ballo in Maschera
or
Operation, as in “Opera”
or
On-fiction non-fiction
Because of censorship Giuseppe Verdi was forced to change the time and setting of the story based on factual events. In an absurd stroke of genius the censors chose Boston shortly before the Revolutionary war. I sympathize with these censors, whoever they were — their [...]

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