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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>A Falling Whale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed a strange reoccurring motif in my writing: animals.  For some reason, exotic animals always seem to slip into my stories.  I don&#8217;t know why.
Not that this story focuses around animals or anything, actually, there are no real animals in it, per se.  Just in the title.  What we have here is another story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dead Pet Shop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story I recently finished.  I read part of it at our MFA program&#8217;s 20th anniversary bash at the San Diego Museum of Art.  Never read in an art hall before.  Very echoey.  Anyhow, I hope to send this to a couple of contests in the near future.  Comments are welcome.  Enjoy!
Dead Pet Shop

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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>
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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>
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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>
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