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On your blog, or in a private email to the writer and to me, respond to the following for each story:How does this story work? I love the imagery and setting in this story. It was very interesting to keep learning things about the character and his mother because of the reactions and responses heContinue reading “Story Response: “A Love Enveloped” by Joel Llop”

On your blog, or in a private email to the writer and to me, respond to the following for each story:How does this story work? This story works through the first person, as a woman is telling the story through her first person experience of being horrifically turned into a stuffed rabbit. If the storyContinue reading “Story Response: “Stuffed Animal Factory” by Lucy Slattery”

Shane Petosa-Sigel The monitor hummed softly as Bob ran his fingers across its sleek and luminescent face. Light projections of blue and green danced along the otherwise transparent surface of the glass as he scrolled and tapped, their soft ebbing glow reflecting in the dark windows of his eyes. Contrasting the faint light of theContinue reading “The Light Behind The Eyes: Part 2 Added”

Shane Petosa-Sigel  The monitor hummed softly as Bob ran his fingers across its sleek and luminescent face. Light projections of blue and green danced along the otherwise transparent surface of the glass as he scrolled and tapped, their soft ebbing glow reflecting in the dark windows of his eyes. Contrasting the faint light of theContinue reading “The Light Behind The Eyes”

Writing from something found from old notes/ideas: A character of physical isolation from their environment.  “I can’t feel it” Anthony whispered, his fingers clattering inside the metal. Professor Einsehn was hunched over by the rigid steel boots confining Anthony’s feet, he was tampering with the rubber seal on one of the toes, he didn’t hear him. “I —Continue reading “Isolation Under Iron”

Shane Petosa-Sigel  Eng. 204-A Homework 2/18: “The Ride”, “Mrs. White”  “The Ride”:  1) How does this story work?  The Ride operates kind of like a jumpy 1st-person narration, where the main character is always going from point to point in a kind of event-based way. “I reach for the pack. I quit four months ago.Continue reading “Homework 2/18: “The Ride”, “Mrs. White””

Embarrassing Moment Prompt: Pants pulled off while hanging off monkey bars.  There I was, a ten-year-old little scamp, balancing on the jellies of my toes as I reached upwards eagerly towards the monkey bars. My heels wiggled as I stretched the whole expanse of my little body out towards the first handhold, short stubby fingers grazing across theContinue reading “Pantsed By Gravity”

Write about a person/place in which your relationship/connection with has changed irreversibly: Childlike ingenuity.. Children are the geniuses of the world, born of ignorance. They donʻt know anything other than their own thoughts, questions, and experiences. It is this lack of knowledge, this naive state of mind, that I miss. It is that lack ofContinue reading “Murdered by Maturity”

An unfinished work: Once a year, sometime close to September, I will walk into the house to find that every available surface from the kitchen to the dining room has been riddled with pallets upon pallets of ripening tomatoes. Set on top of the counter, stacked high on the kitchen table, the boxes of lipstick-redContinue reading “Food Memories”

Terrible social/cultural practices being used in a modern commonplace as the norm: Yearly reincarnation into different species “Remember hon, you’ll have to stop by and feed Melony on the way home from work, you know Roger still cares about her.” Of course, I knew I had to stop by and feed her. I wasn’t forgetful, IContinue reading “The Changing”