Sasha Fletcher's Blog, page 5

I GOT INTERVIEWED

please read and comment? we can have a dialog! it'll be neat.

the vicarious mfa continues to show you how to write a paper

so for richard locke's fiction lecture we had to write a 5 page response to two of the authors we read over the semester. i did this. he liked it.

Grace Paley in a tree, Donald Barthelme beside her.


Grace Paley and Donald Barthelme sitting around in the backyard, having themselves a chat.

Grace Paley is sitting in a tree. This is not so odd, as they are in the backyard.
"The drinks" Don says.

"We did not want for drinks."

"Did?"

"I have been known at times to confuse the present with the past, Dona...

i am putting this here so i don't forget about it, even though it's basically a lot like something else i've already said before

A man approached on horseback. He held in his hand a small fistful of fire. I asked him where he had gotten that fire. He told me he couldn't say and elaborated no further upon that fire. It seemed to burn the very air. It licked at the sky as though hungry for more. For a great expanse. Since that day I have not seen fire such as that.

and brings with it the news

have you been reading rob lopez's blog? because i have not. and now i will change that because the thing about rob lopez's blog is the thing about rob lopez which is that rob lopez is a goddam national goddam treasure.

in other news there are 39 copies of my book in a box. i have got some new pants, although it is proving too hot to wear them at the moment. skyler and i are starting carnivale tonight which is a show that she has not yet watched.

i have been working on longer poems lately and it...

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