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Reading 222, from Milan Kundera

rhapsodysinger wrote 5 days ago: In the political jargon those days, the word “intellectual” was an insult. It indicated … more →

Tags: Communist, daily readings, ethics, Humor, lectio divina, Literature, Truth, Universal, China

Reading for the Unemployed3 comments

Desi Italiana wrote 1 week ago: The day after I returned from Nepal, I went to the local library and got myself a “passport … more →

Tags: Books, Poetry, and Literature, desh, Altaf Tyrewala, Anosh Irani, Apple, Books, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Danielle Steel, David Foster Wallace

Reading and Music

mike wrote 3 weeks ago: I have been reading of late. A lot. I have been reading a lot of late. And it has been wonderful. Li … more →

Tags: Spaceless, Placeless, Reading, Music, mogwai

Where's the wonder in magic realism?2 comments

sensawunda wrote 1 month ago: I have just finished the seminal work of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude  by Gabriel G … more →

Tags: Books, Fantasy, Novels

That’s When My Forehead Hit the Glass

ericanaone wrote 1 month ago: Tonight, I am thinking about the boldness of good writing. A while back, I promised a post on other … more →

Tags: Reviews, single stories, writing process, Elisha Webster, Franz Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Metamorphosis, On the Premises, Review

Distance: An Introduction4 comments

Clownscape wrote 1 month ago: He found her in one of his own dreams, dreaming about him finding her, in that solitary, circular dr … more →

Tags: abstract, absurd, Absurdity, Art, dream, Eternity, Fiction, flash fiction, forever

Midnight's Children vs The Tin Drum: Why Salman Rushdie owes a huge debt to Günter Grass

seandodson wrote 1 month ago: I was a little dismayed last week when Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children won another … more →

Tags: Culture, Literature, Books, Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie, mumbai, Danzig, Gdańsk, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hello my name is: Haruki Murakami

fastfictions wrote 1 month ago:    Pleased to meet you. I imagine shaking hands with an untold number of people, my arm stretched … more →

Tags: Fables, haruki murakami, Kafka on the Shore

The Implausible Stones1 comment

Clownscape wrote 1 month ago: Each of his stones was impossibility. None of them had the property of visibility. They reflected n … more →

Tags: abstract, absurd, Art, Civilization, Creation, Deconstruction, discussion, Fiction, flash fiction

The Weeping Waters2 comments

Clownscape wrote 1 month ago: Sometimes, in my flashes of forgetting, I couldn’t remember the first time I had slit her ski … more →

Tags: Alternative, amnesia, Betrayal, Blood+, Blue, Darkness, death, Fall, Fiction

One Hundred Years of Solitude

andwestofthemoon wrote 2 months ago: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rab … more →

Tags: 20th Century, Books in Translation

I'm Kevin Spenst3 comments

fastfictions wrote 2 months ago:       Usually, I introduce myself each day with a different identity, saying I’m Osama Bi … more →

Tags: whipped up in 15min, truth for a change, Literature, Life, Creative Writing, mountains

I’m Jason McLean2 comments

fastfictions wrote 2 months ago:     I have to come out from under the cover of all the characters I’ve made these past five m … more →

Tags: something serious, Life, Creative Writing, borrowed identities, Moving, jason mclean

If Searching Were Finding2 comments

Clownscape wrote 2 months ago: In the end, the wings took her inside herself. She flew right through her own nostrils. The flight, … more →

Tags: Surreal, abstract, absurd, Absurdity, Art, Creation, Eternity, Fantasy, Fiction

I’m a writer in Korea

fastfictions wrote 2 months ago:    My name is Finn Harvor and I’m a writer and artist, living in South Korea.  The past five m … more →

Tags: Life, Childhood, Witches, korean-canadian, Creative Writing, borrowed identities

Enamored of Idiots [part 2]

fastfictions wrote 2 months ago: (for the first part of this story refer to May 27th)       “What are you talking about?”   … more →

Tags: Something funny, something serious, writing, Literature

I Am3 comments

Clownscape wrote 2 months ago: The eye is an abyss. Many who fell in it drowned forever. Many times when the eye blinked the world … more →

Tags: abstract, absurd, Civilization, eye, Fantasy, Fiction, flash fiction, gypsies, I

I’m the new editor of St. Nicholas Magazine

fastfictions wrote 2 months ago:     Well I know St. Nicholas hasn’t published since 1941 – the year in which Virginia Woolf … more →

Tags: Something funny, Life, Literature, Modernism, st nicholas magazine, writing

Not Particularly.2 comments

peterandthehare wrote 3 months ago: The dust always settles, as they say, upon the floor. when it does, an underpowered speaker plays Sy … more →

Tags: writing, Poetry, Dreams, Love, questionable, People, time, Surreal, Nonsense


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