February 2009
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SEASON OF CORNFLOWERS (lust, love, family, natural...
THE SEASON OF CORNFLOWERS
The girl came at the end of May. She wore a light blue sundress and golden sandals at least three days a week. When she walked hesitantly on the dusty road, each step glinted like a tiny jewel. Even when Paul watched her from the shade of the family restaurant he always sweated a little more, and had to clear his drying throat. One day she looked back right when he was...
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SEASON OF CORNFLOWERS (Explanation and Visual Aid)
«< This is the parts of a Cornflower. Now you know. I really love scientific drawings. I imagine a botanist out in the field for hours erasing drawing and then erasing again. I supose I love how it seems to tie the two parts of the brain together so well. How it keeps the balance of both the logical and the creative.
Orginally the story, Season of Cornflowers, was going to be a part of a...
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INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD STORY SERIES (McSweeny's...
Yesterday I started reading the current issue of McSweeny’s Quaterly Concern and Wells Towers had this brilliant thing to say about rewrites:
“When I sat down to give it another look before signing off on my collection of short stories, I read the first few pages and was horrified. After all the work I’d done on it, the story looked cheap and inadequate and shameful. Reading it,...
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NEW STORY IDEA (Rooftops, Desk Jobs, Fear,...
Its about this guy who works for a corporation. Everyday he sits at his desk and obsesses about breaking onto the rooftop. He is sure there is something fantastic going on up there. The problem is that he is a nervous little fellow. There are no obvious cameras in the building, but he is convinced that it is like time spent in a Vegas Casino—no matter where you go you are never alone.