No seriously. This guy I work with, young man really, Brenden, and this girl Christina--also a writer, also I work with--and I are all going to write short shorts about him, then compare. Care to join? I'm being serious here. You can write a short short, you can write a poem, you can write a goddam whole short story if you can manage it, but it's gotta get done by next Sunday (not this one, the next one). Then we're gonna post it on a website, a simple thing, and we may or may not pitch the website at an absurdist angle, or rather at an angle that freely points out the absurdity of what's going on here, at the democracy of selfish causes, at the fear run rampant, at the fear in every handful of dust.
What kind of a world do we live in? The world we are making.
If anyone would like to participate--poem, short short, short story--then contact me via email. tmcarnam@gmail
It's got to be the guy who goes to the police station every day because he has nowhere else to go. Eh? I mean, if that weren't so disturbing that would be a perfect instance of the absurd. If you ask me.
Oh, HIM. I read the article and wasn't sure either, so it wasn't just you, Starrykick. I would love to write a short short about that poor sod (he kind of reminds me of a character in Durrenmatt's play _The Visit_ -- has anyone else read or seen that play?), but I cannot get anything done by this Sunday because it's a crazy week -- among other things, I have to be at the Immigration Office in Detroit, in order to take the next sidestep in my own absurd waltz with bureaucracy, tomorrow at 8am, and then we are going to Chicago for the weekend. But youpeople, when you have all those short shorts and poems up on the website, please do post the link here because I would love to see them.
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No seriously. This guy I work with, young man really, Brenden, and this girl Christina--also a writer, also I work with--and I are all going to write short shorts about him, then compare. Care to join? I'm being serious here. You can write a short short, you can write a poem, you can write a goddam whole short story if you can manage it, but it's gotta get done by next Sunday (not this one, the next one). Then we're gonna post it on a website, a simple thing, and we may or may not pitch the website at an absurdist angle, or rather at an angle that freely points out the absurdity of what's going on here, at the democracy of selfish causes, at the fear run rampant, at the fear in every handful of dust.
What kind of a world do we live in? The world we are making.
If anyone would like to participate--poem, short short, short story--then contact me via email. tmcarnam@gmail
Am I dumb? I read the article and I have NO IDEA who you're talking about.
It's got to be the guy who goes to the police station every day because he has nowhere else to go. Eh? I mean, if that weren't so disturbing that would be a perfect instance of the absurd. If you ask me.
Oh, HIM. I read the article and wasn't sure either, so it wasn't just you, Starrykick. I would love to write a short short about that poor sod (he kind of reminds me of a character in Durrenmatt's play _The Visit_ -- has anyone else read or seen that play?), but I cannot get anything done by this Sunday because it's a crazy week -- among other things, I have to be at the Immigration Office in Detroit, in order to take the next sidestep in my own absurd waltz with bureaucracy, tomorrow at 8am, and then we are going to Chicago for the weekend. But youpeople, when you have all those short shorts and poems up on the website, please do post the link here because I would love to see them.
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