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AGE: 21
LOC: Saint Louis, MO
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: November 19

I’ve always hated this part.

I’m a twenty-one year old student working on a joint BS-MA degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
I’m a high school drop out.

I enjoy knowledge, cliffs, psychobilly music, red hair, and coffin-dodging tattoo apprentices. And, oh yes, long strolls on the beach.

I have two pieces [On the Permanence of Ink and The House Fire] that are to be published in the upcoming issue of the literary magazine The Ivy Review.

In all honesty, I’m quite shy about my writing. I have no dreams of becoming the next best-selling novelist; in fact, the idea of it gives me the heebie-jeebies. The only reason I write is because I enjoy it. The only reason…

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Short Story / Pathetique
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5 Reviews   10 Comments
Jane had already calculated her escape route: the freight elevator at the back of the building down to the second floor, an immediate right to the NO ENTRY door that is never actually locked, down a short ramp and then out the back alley delivery door. All this just to evade a landlord. The graffitied door clicks behind her and she allows herself to breathe; she is home-free. Tip-toeing around the discards of last night’s alley residents, she makes it to the sidewalk and joins the rest of the...
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Short Story / Writer's Block
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4 Reviews   15 Comments
Ecce Deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi. [Behold, a deity stronger than I; who coming, shall rule over me.] -Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova Snatching the Sunday post from its newsstand cage, Alex ruffled through the articles, landing decidedly on the Entertainment section: Alexander P. Kale, Shatters All Pre-Release Sale Records Alex had never quite known how to receive good news. He tossed a quarter on to the worn counter and continued to count the cracks in the sidewalk on the way ...
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Flash Fiction / Thirty Word Story - "The House Fire"
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26 Reviews   78 Comments
Caroline heard the thunder-clap before seeing the flash. She smelled smoke; the front porch was aflame. The windows had bars: no escape. Reclining her chair, Caroline swigged her special-occasion whiskey.
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Short Story / On the Permanence of Ink
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6 Reviews   8 Comments
I spent two nights mulling over every word, phrase, sentence, and mark of this essential correspondence. I ink my signature and the familiarly unpleasant taste of the envelope gum solidifies the letter’s finality. It has begun to rain. I won’t be Mother Nature’s fool—with the envelope stamped, addressed, and safely tucked in the deep pockets of my silver-lined puff coat, I begin my journey. The awning has a steady-dripping leak at the left corner of the blue Astroturf porch. Clenching my fist...
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Flash Fiction / Maybe an Ache
by acdoyler
THIS IS GREAT!i love the context of the e-mail exchange, it makes it that much better and gives it comedy.my only suggestion is perhaps in the return e-mail, be consistent with the computer lingo. either change it to "Plus, you're old." or take the comma and apostrophe out of the first sentence. It seems if she responded with "Plus U R old", she wouldn't have properly put a comma and apostrophe in the first sentence.that's my only complaint, though!very nice!lu.
Flash Fiction / Tell it to someone who cares
by destined2bgreat
this doesn't seem very flash fiction to me. it doesn't seem to be much of a story so much as a stream of consciousness. that's not really that important, just an observation.there are a few comma splices and things like that; those are unimportant now, but once it gets more towards a finished piece, it will be important.when you give the one line of dialogue, i think you meant "your mouth" instead of "my mouth".i think this could be very interesting if set up as more of a story. develop the c...
Flash Fiction / Six word memoir
by kadiya
i think this could be improved with a mirror of the alliteration. something like "born to build, live to love" (i know that's rather weak, but i just wanted to illustrate the point.)nice work,lu.
Flash Fiction / 6 word memoir
by madeliaette
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Flash Fiction / Six Words Boy Talk
by Fenvy
perhaps it would be more clear is you defined "we". suggestions: all, families, children, men, students, citizens, etc.very nice, though.lu.
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