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Heather. Age 27. Female. Lives just outside Chicago. Studied English, Spanish and French in college. Writes about life, travel, books, poetry, & international films. Writes short stories, fanfiction, & music.
Published Works:
"Diaspora" (2014, Chicago Reader) Link here"These External Manners of Lament" (2014, Southeast Review ( Read more... ) -
When Death Comes by Mary Oliver
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of ( Read more... ) -
White Owl Flies Into And Out Of The Field by Mary Oliver
Coming down out of the freezing sky
with its depths of light,
like an angel, or a Buddha with wings,
it was beautiful, and accurate,
striking the snow and whatever was there
with a force that left the imprint
of the tips of its wings-five feet apart-
and the grabbing thrust of its feet,
and the indentation of what had been running
through the white valleys ( Read more... ) -
summer's end
Tonight is my last day of summer and I did not complete my goal of finishing my short story. I got really close though. I am still working on the ending. I am granting myself 2 more days to finish the first draft ( Read more... ) -
8 days left of freedom
Another school year begins in 8 days. My classroom is not ready, but I think I am ready - for a change, for stucture.
I am posting because I have a goal for these last 8 days of freedom: finish the short story I've been working on. I'm going to try and post my draft in 4 sections, as I finish them. Wish me luck! -
resolutions revisited, 10 years later
Last week, I looked through my old Livejournal entries because I was looking for a post I made during high school or college about songs I thought were perfect (hence, my username created cerca 2004). I ended up reading a few of my old entries. One that stuck out was a post about my new years resolutions from 2005. Ten years ago, I resolved to...
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open letter to my characters
I have a college professor in my head when I sit down to write fiction. He says, "What's the conflict?" "What do the characters want?" But what happens when everything they want is too easy? They never want things they can't have. They are mostly content with their lives in the way we are when we realize everything we do and are is temporary. So ( Read more... ) -
on reading authors' Collected Letters
As I'm enjoying reading the uncollected letters of fictional poets R. Ash and C. Lamotte in Possession, I think I might like to read the collected letters of a real poet or writer. A quick Amazon search has turned up the following: Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen, C.S. Lewis, Thomas Jefferson & John Adams, W.B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway ( Read more... ) -
Are tweets our new correspondence?
I feel like every time I post, what I actually want to say is overshadowed by me apologizing to myself for never posting. So I'm not going to do that ( Read more... ) -
Fic: How it Begins Again
Title: How it begins again
Gift for: nyladnam04
Author: aperfectsong
Pairing: Harry/Ginny
Rating: PG
Word Count: 12,713
Summary: After the last battle, life at the Burrow goes on. A story in four chapters and four perspectives (Ginny Weasley, Molly Weasley, George Weasley, and Harry Potter)
So my main reason for posting today is that I finally got around to posting that epic 4 ( Read more... )