Advanced Writing Course – Page 2

Recollecting

by Allison Argueta ClarosPosted on April 1, 2022April 1, 2022

I was six or seven, and I stood a little ways from my father, who was grasping the handle of a small navy suitcase in one hand and, with the other, knocking on our bathroom door. His face was stoic, unmoved by the reality of being cast out, exiled from us.

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Make Way for Midge Maisel

by Sasha R. CohenPosted on March 30, 2022March 30, 2022

Midge Maisel's strong-headed, Jewish-mother persona resembles your bubbe who nags you to nosh on a third helping of kugel and gefilte fish. However, she is to be reckoned with as she emerges as a comic who is not afraid to hold her middle finger up to the patriarchy.

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The Sorts

by Jessica McDanielsPosted on March 24, 2022March 23, 2022

The clutter that lies within us is whisked up by some ominous force.

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From Syllables of Estrangement

by Jana HossamPosted on March 9, 2022March 9, 2022

The city is swallowing me whole/Biting its way through my mind/Chewing my tenderness

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Beneath the Lithosphere

by Lydia SheffieldPosted on February 25, 2022February 25, 2022

I’m falling / into a / hole in / the floor

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At “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”

by Eva BrucknerPosted on February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

The floor is sticky with stuff you can only hope is beer and everyone is standing in front of their seat, talking with friends or strangers and jiggling up and down to the music in a sort of awkward pseudo-dance.

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Pity the Skunk

by Emmett Wickham-DecterPosted on February 16, 2022February 16, 2022

A shadowed mass stumbled out of the reeds. A skunk, pawing at nothing in particular, winced at the sun and shook unsteadily under its own weight. Rocco, always playful, nosed the creature while dancing around the dazed animal.

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Third-Grade Research Project

by Gabrielle NarcissePosted on February 4, 2022February 10, 2022

“Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen….
And also…
God,
Please, please, please,
give me big …

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I Just Like Movies

by Michael GordonPosted on February 1, 2022February 1, 2022

Is it even possible to explain why you like something? And I don’t mean explaining why it’s cool, but why, over everything else people love in this world, you love what you do.

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Lima Is Hidden

by Sofía SanchezPosted on January 28, 2022September 12, 2022

As fog, I’ve spread across lands, past oceans, and deserts, both sand, and ice. Nothing compares to my obligation to the city on the cliff.

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How To Be a Heartbreaker

by Celine BassmanPosted on January 27, 2022January 26, 2022

Bea was running late. She hoped it came off like a cute girl-next-door personality trait, like she’d show up all frazzled, tripping over her words, a little out of breath, her cheeks flushed and her smile wider than ever, like, I’m here, I rushed all the way here just for you.

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My Bed Is a Vehicle

by Mai MageedPosted on November 12, 2021November 10, 2021

We spend our whole lives going/ to each other’s rooms and then back/ to our own.

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Boppy’s Year in Vietnam

by Caroline MeredithPosted on November 9, 2021

Tom Casey’s letters from Vietnam are not merely a historical artifact, but a bildungsroman, the story of a man discovering the limits of his duty and the faults of his country.

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The Pill

by Catherine DevinePosted on November 5, 2021November 3, 2021

I soon joined the club of licit pink-pill slipping girls myself, along with the 82 percent of teen birth-control users who rely on the drug for purposes, at least in part, other than pregnancy prevention.

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The House That Cotton Built

by Aliya JonesPosted on October 29, 2021

There’s stillness: the whispers of trees and soft winds that make them heard. They’re talking to us; we’ve come to listen. Plantations are vast, empty, filled with invisible souls and their all-too-audible cries; these acres are not that.

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Confluence

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