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I'm in the mood to read a great coming of age story. I recently watched Anywhere but Here with Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman and I loved the description of Anne's plight. I think it was done extraordinarily well. I want to read something along those lines and as well done as that. I...

“One Short Storm” Jamie stood on the old bench feeling the wind ravage her. Her long brown hair danced in it. The night was young, but the sky was dark for the moon had abandoned them. She raised her arms wide over her head. The wind lashed and caressed her at the same time. It came...

Three girls walk beneath the yellow glow of the street lamp. To their left, docked cabin boats bob slightly as the summer wind rushes along the surface of the water. The sound of dry brittle ropes tugging on splintering posts is reassuring to the girls. The erratic swishing as the uplifted bows...

sorry about the (cliche/pun?). anyway, i've been without tv for about a month now, and i must admit that i was terribly addicted. i mean, i watched atleast 4 hours a day, and that was while working 10 hours and attending school for 4 or 5 hours each day. i had experienced a lapse in tv...

does anyone agree that he was a genius? Daisy Miller, Beast in the Jungle, etc. etc.. I wish that i could personally thank him.

i read all of "Salamander" by Thomas Wharton while sitting in my car in a stranger's driveway while my boyfriend worked on their computer and a giant golden retriever contemplated me. i am so grateful for the experience. i really loved the very beginning. "I can't read the words at...

i'm trying to figure out what today's word should be. it's a struggle between abscond and bastion.

This is a snippet that i wrote for a class a few years ago. i am a little worried because i have never shared my work with anyone except a couple of professors, but i trust you all to be gentle. ;) She walked along the asphalt path on the other side of the murky pond. She walked among...

Has anyone ever read Russell Edson? He's wonderful. I just recently re-read "dinner time" by him after several years, and I can't stop thinking about it. It is very short prose and completely bizarre. Most of his work is, if not all of his work. I can hear sound effects that he never even...

I just met Frank McCourt. He came to my writing workshop at my university. He was amazing. He spoke about technique and inspiration and I am thrilled to the bone with having met him. I only recently started reading "Angela's Ashes." I think it's brilliant.

should i be embarrassed to admit that i like his book "Shop Girl"? :o

Hi everyone! I'm new to the site and very excited. I like hemingway, capote, cheever, sartre, and the ever depressing samuel beckett. i hope to be inspired here. i'm sure i will be.