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He watches his paralyzed left arm arc across his body, then swivel around and disappear behind his back. He does this over and over again. He's very high and it makes him laugh.
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I will gobble them like tiny men, missions and things to prove.
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I didn't really know her. Yet, to me, she and her friends epitomized the local hip scene.
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7. Using Cohen's Method of Structure craft a piece of fiction featuring unexpected conflict. (12 points)
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You think about it all the time. Cancer cancer cancer. Cancer leg. Cancer arm. You've eaten too many cancer hot dogs and sausages in your life. You've gotten too many cancer sunburns. Cancer throat. Cancer head. Too much cancer sex.
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A man’s been in jail for six weeks awaiting trial. Lillian doesn’t say his name. A man kidnapped her from the grocery store parking lot. He raped her at his house, and again in the desert, chopped her hand off with an axe and left her for dead in the
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. . was the earliest born of the not-so-great Pedantic Poets . .
. . beleaguered by family financial crises that continued to the beginning of his life, he suffered periods of deep elation . .
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Last summer our marriage took a direct hit and crashed into a deep pit with little warning when Millicent met a Facebook man and simply left, taking up with him, presenting him with my space in her life to receive her touch and this thought perpetually gnaws away, making me…
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Most of us are just ordinary mutts with no gift for writing, nothing like Joyce James [or] any of those...
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The next winter the house burned down.
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"She gnawed her arm off in the morning, before he woke...."
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Each angry man leaps from a boy tempered by existential harm.
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She was fast as the wind and lived on air, her clothes a size 0000.
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It’s so hard to get to know people these days. Even the social ones wall you out with politeness. Like jackknives with pearl handles in a display case.
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I doused back three Buds in the time it took him to detest a variety of subjects including the naivety of quantum physics and pregnant women.
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the waves all green and gooey, all / pommes frites, ruinous, insolent, half / fractal
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“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.
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He was manic, depressive, schizophrenic, bipolar, paranoid, cyclothymic, borderline, or a genius.
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The afternoon my little sister won her first U.S. Open, I was also busy, having strenuous sex with David Solemn, a man I’d met earlier that morning at Dunkin Donuts. We did it on the white living room carpet in my parent’s new Connecticut house while
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Bruno Hackmann and I hung out all summer, and then Joe came back from Persia.
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When I was eight years old, I stepped into / a snow bank in Pennsylvania and sank / in over my head
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The gull put its foot down, stretched its wings out and swept into the salty breeze.
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Each death a sonnet, every grief / fourteen lines.
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These days, even God has a day job.
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Once, an elephant contracted a sudden bolt of insanity in the streets of Ernakulam and trampled three children under her feet before she was shot to death. It took them seven bullets to bring her down.
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Paris was a better place for African Americans in those days. Josephine Baker sent a spray of roses. James Baldwin helped him find a good apartment.
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“Where do you want your mustache?” Melanie asked. “You can have it on the side, you know, or, if you prefer, across your labia, in which case it will also look like a cross?”
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An old man, a widower; living alone, defenseless. It was a given.
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