Tag: writing
member name: KC Klein
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November 28, 2009 08:33 PM EST --
I cannot recall our meeting – My feet are swollen. He, much older in what he is/does. I am Plato’s Student. His discovery not mine. He wants me – he flatters. I like that – . . .
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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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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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November 20, 2009 12:07 AM EST --
These stats are a couple of years old.
68% of Republicans polled said they didn't believe in evolution.
Whereas 5% of monkeys believe in Republicans.
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November 28, 2009 08:29 PM EST --
Ewe New
KC Klein (I'm not sure I wish to put my name on this one)
Words like little dogs, Yapping yapping yapping. Tapping little clogs. Never – ever – napping. . . .
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November 28, 2009 08:31 PM EST --
Chickens walk and
Scratch with their feet.
This is how they get what they eat.
In the morning light
Chickens seem to dance.
They cluck and bob,
They scratch . . .
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September 02, 2009 08:31 PM EDT --
tag line: Coming of age in the 60's, Michael doesn't know whether he's a boy or a girl.
Unnatural Girl
1
My father was a salesman. Odd, I don’t . . .
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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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September 22, 2009 06:10 PM EDT --
We live not between the extremes of right and wrong, but in the waxing waning light between sanity and insanity.
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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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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, 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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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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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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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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December 20, 2008 05:28 AM EST --
I like to pull out this old chestnut this time of year, my idea of a Christmas story. 1100 words, a bit long for the average 'net reader, but here it is anyway.
literary fiction . . .
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November 22, 2009 08:49 PM EST --
I wrote this years ago, haven't changed it much, but I have.
Frustration
When the Callous Beast comes a-knocking With his knee a-jerking, The voices merely strengthen my resolve and validate . . .
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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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