Tag: social commentary
member name: KC Klein
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July 11, 2009 06:07 PM EDT --
Life, as we know it
I was born in exile, the quintessential misplaced zygote.
I will die in diaspora.
The dirt under my feet isn't mine, borrowed. I take a fistful, . . .
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October 21, 2009 07:55 PM EDT --
The Christmas Cookies
Note: this is my attempt at a happy Christmas tale. pseudo-biographical.
I grew up in an established neighborhood, our street a mix of elderly and young families. Christmas, . . .
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October 17, 2009 08:50 PM EDT --
The Christmas Shoes
The cars and trucks glistened, washed by late fall’s squall after squall as shoppers, hidden in hoods, scarves and hats, some bobbing umbrellas, danced and weaved . . .
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July 17, 2009 07:43 PM EDT --
Note: Understand if someone gives you advice and can't explain it, likely they're aping something they read in a book or even more likely, something they read on a blog.
Literary fiction/social . . .
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October 19, 2009 02:54 AM EDT --
Personally, I've never understood the difference between a pencil applied to a napkin, a diary, a journal or a text file recorded digitally within the computer.
Then again, I went to night school . . .
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November 20, 2009 05:04 AM EST --
"I celebrate myself, And what I assmue you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
Walt Whitman
Poetry across the landscape can be just about anything and take . . .
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December 12, 2009 07:30 PM EST --
On Writing: Voice. Talking animals in literary fiction
Disclaimer: I’ve not been to Da College. I don’t have the benefit of a formal education and I’ve not read Stephen King’s . . .
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July 17, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
Here's how it's done, kids.
Life's Rowboat
Copyright © 1997-2008 Karl C Klein. All rights reserved
"I was reading about this cave." Caitlin stared with calculating, innocent . . .
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July 17, 2009 03:39 AM EDT --
The Short Story
Mr. Collings stood over the freshmen English class. Fifty-six hands busied, retrieving the homework. My head swam, dull from a night far too late and full of all the wrong things. . . .
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July 17, 2008 10:57 AM EDT --
I was a stranger in a strange land poverty coming on us overnight changing addresses and schools. I'd met Virginia by happenstance three weeks before. She was a bona fide . . .
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July 18, 2009 07:08 PM EDT --
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
Timothy Leary. If you don't know who that is, ask your mother.
I cover a lot of ground. 1)defaulting 2)modifiers 3)blonde/blond 4)OK/okay . . .
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July 18, 2009 07:36 PM EDT --
The Christian Salute
Years ago, my wife Jean and I were driving along when we came up behind an AMC Gremlin. I'm sure many of you have seen this car or its ilk. The back of the car, including . . .
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December 08, 2009 06:50 PM EST --
Short story, literary fiction, narrative, 1,000
If you're in a hurry, come back later. Relax, enjoy. Think of this as giving yourself a cookie.
Impermanence
I graduated to . . .
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December 11, 2009 06:53 PM EST --
1000 words, narrative, literary fiction, social commentary, pseudo-biographical
Sharp, clean and crisp, this short story reads like a movie treatment. The Show-not-tellers are going to white-knuckle . . .
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October 03, 2009 04:10 AM EDT --
Back in 03, we received an iguana. He used to be very active, climbing the branch in a couple days or so. Now, six days have passed and he's not climbed the branch. I'm afraid he's gotten too old for . . .
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November 20, 2009 07:27 AM EST --
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics
Mark Twain.
It's a Clavinism that 87% of all Internet statistics are made up.
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November 20, 2009 06:30 PM EST --
Orbs
Like the orbs of soap from my daughter's bubble pipe,
I feel you grow within me,
cell by cell
and plasma after new plasma.
I wrap my arms around myself
knowing you . . .
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August 24, 2008 05:32 AM EDT --
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to any actual . . .
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October 18, 2009 10:31 PM EDT --
Sometime back in 1999, I caught the idea for Makaila . I wouldn't lay pen to paper until the winter, January 2000. To quote the Grateful Dead : What a long, strange trip it's been. Looking back, I can't . . .
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November 11, 2009 08:00 AM EST --
Michael is the narrator. He'd been mistaken for a girl. Michael/Michelle visits Dave Fowler in the hospital, where an ill-conceived playground game sent him. Dave thinks Michael is a girl.
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