Writing.
Memoir
“I almost drowned once, playing Red Light, Green Light. I was not supposed to drown, but then, the lifeguards weren’t supposed to be negligent. It was like this, if you must know...”
Fiction
Table of Contents
That changes everything
What, is he dead?
Yellow matter custard
That changes nothing
A really good recipe for pie, maybe
There is a sex scene, but it is all a dream
Accidental sedition, incidental arson, intentional grand larceny, and surprisingly little death.
Laundry day, stain removal, knitting, and entirely too many rats.
Are you a good boy? (By God, I think I am.)
Are you ready to meet your maker? (Excuse me?)
I said, Are you a good boy? (I’d like to think so, but please stop saying that.)
Did that make you uncomfortable? Comfort, you know, is an addiction.
A highly realistic encounter with quicksand, and other things that definitely happened.
An unsatisfying conclusion, unless you enjoy suffering
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“Before we begin, it would be best to lay out a few ground rules. First, if you’re cold, put on a sweater. If you’re still cold, put on another sweater. ”
“As she waited on the balcony of the Rodeway Inn, scraping flakes of what was probably lead paint off the rickety metal railing, Aileen began to warm to the prospect of her impending murder.”
Analytical Essays
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“Thus, as Coetzee's protagonists, amidst a crumbling linguistic paradigm, undergo a process of searching for a new grammar that may withstand the rigors of internal and external criticism, sex functions as a mode of discovering and constructing truth in a post-language reality, or, alternatively, as a catalyst for bringing about the post-language reality in the first place. Discourse and intercourse, then, are inextricably linked: in the earlier novels, sex is a response to fragmentation, while in the later novel, it is the source of it.”
“What are we to make of a narrative framework wherein Satan is not merely foil to God, but rather, in the scheme of the alternative literary landscape, is God? (For starters, it might safely be predicted that all hell would break loose.)”