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	<title>Miracle of Rare Device</title>
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	<description>“It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice."  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge (from Kubla Khan)</description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve been up to</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve been idle lately.  I&#8217;ve been working feverishly on my novel, which I&#8217;ve considered posting here but haven&#8217;t had the guts to do.  It&#8217;s nowhere near polished.
But I&#8217;ve been up to other things as well, I just finished editing the first annual MFA Anthology of Creative Writing for the program [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://miracleofraredevice.unsquare.com/2008/04/18/what-ive-been-up-to/</link>
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		<title>Another not fiction post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been quite a busy semester for me, one fraught with peril, suspense, danger, and the occasional compulsory laundry duty.  The bulk of my sweat and tears have been going into starting up an organization on campus called The Writers Collective at SDSU, (check out our wiki website). But somehow I managed to recently get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virgil was still the frog boy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story isn&#8217;t exactly a story, it&#8217;s an exercise that I completed for a class this semester.  The stipulation of the exercise was this: somewhere in the story, you have to say &#8220;Virgil was still the frog boy.&#8221;  We got together during finals week and everyone read their story.  Some were about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://miracleofraredevice.unsquare.com/2007/12/18/virgil-was-still-the-frog-boy/</link>
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		<title>The Cake Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
(This is a revamped version of the story by the same name that I posted a few months ago.  Feel free to leave comments and feedback.)
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I pull the wrinkled paper from my back pocket and unfold it.  Alvis writes like a chicken.  Two weeks ago, when I received the letter, I had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Bang Daisy</title>
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There is a region on the Atlantic coast of France where salt water daily sweeps in and back out again with the tidal pull.  A small castle sits atop the hazy hill in the distance.  There are two or three other hills on the horizon, but they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The miracle of toxic waste</title>
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		<title>Writing a Novel</title>
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Walter Percy says that a novel, for all its length, is just an extremely long name for a complex, evolving emotion that has no name but that.
Flannery O&#8217;Connor says, &#8220;A story is a way to say something that can&#8217;t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://miracleofraredevice.unsquare.com/2007/08/05/writing-a-novel/</link>
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		<title>Creative Non Fiction Essay Concerning AIR GUITAR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Creative Non-fiction is a tough genre to pin down.  I mean, the name indicates that it&#8217;s defined by what it is not: fiction.  So here&#8217;s my valiant attempt at a creative piece of &#8220;not&#8221; fiction.  Although, I must admit, that the things that I mention in this essay (my experiences in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://miracleofraredevice.unsquare.com/2007/05/16/creative-non-fiction-essay-concerning-air-guitar/</link>
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		<title>A Rare Device: Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    Often I equate poetry with fine paintings.  Both seem to represent some ineffable part of our humanity, and both are, for me, completely unintelligible.  I like the way a Picasso looks, the colors are often pleasing, the painting is usually hanging straight, Picasso&#8217;s are just great.  But I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://miracleofraredevice.unsquare.com/2007/04/14/a-rare-device-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Passers-by (a short story)</title>
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I’d received my acceptance letter in the mail, it was from my college of choice. That evening I decided to take a walk out on the beach. The beach is close no matter where you live in San Diego, but so is the military base. The draft numbers had been issued today.
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		<link>http://miracleofraredevice.unsquare.com/2007/03/22/passers-by-a-short-story/</link>
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