Trunkie - Trunkie

So here's my short piece on my car's trunk. It's an SUV so it's more like the back than trunk.

The twisted handle falls heavily onto the metal framed stroller crushing the supple flannel fabric with tendrils of coffee and soy milk stains dancing across the cloth. The beast smashes into the cave-like confines upon the crinkled leather shoes and wadded diapers. The smashing mirrored door falls against the soiled rubber wheels encasing the narrow space within the blackened trunk sitting like a sleeping beast between walls of slump block and metal. And underneath a dirty ceiling of white, grey, white, grey, black, black, gray, white plaster pin pricks.

Angels

I think I may be obsessed with angels. Something out of a James Morrow novel or Gaiman, more so than Psalms, though. My last book sort of had an angel, and my next will have two. In between I'd like to write a short story.

Did anyone see The Fallen? It's a book I've not read, and they made a movie I recorded. Anyone read these or see it? Let me know.

Chimney embers

Exercise:

Write a short descriptive piece of a small, dark place. Requirements: 100 words exactly with a beginning, middle and end.

White embers sparkle golden with popping incessantly, buried deep beneath the cooling ash. The final thermal flicker suffocated beneath the blanket of burnt wood, as the whisks from the chimney brush pressed deeply into the pile beneath the wrought iron grate which held the remains of the charred wood like a father holds his small daughter upon the pedestal of protection.

Those embers wrestled with their very existence as that brush moved swiftly and purposefully forward. The darkened, dead ash rolled forward in small waves like those lapping children’s toes in the tepid tide until the embers popped no more.

Stop? Step?

Ok, so when I created this blog I thought it was the name of the Creative Writing magazine at our school. Today Whitney pointed out that I'm an idiot and that the name is THE DOOR STEP. Well, that blogs taken (Whitney, do you own it?). Anyway, I am keeping this one.

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Welcome

I have asked each and every student in my creative writing course to create a blog for their original work during this course. I won't ask my students to do something that I won't do myself so here I am. Blogger is one of the free blog servers I actually understand, so here I am.

This is where I will post my work that I write in class and from this class with the exception of my novels. They take too long to worry about someone stealing them.

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