A Review of Paul Auster’s “Invisible”
Tags/ Posted by Mark KerstetterYour body is more like a gesture than a thing. More like a song than a gesture.continue reading this poem
Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel, Invisible, is a story about a man trying to tell a story. We see him as a twenty-year-old, and then as a sixty-year-old, struggling to get the story of his twenty-year-old self out. But a life cannot be bound to words, and will have to remain an enigma, invisible forever and ever. Auster explores this impossibility, this essential truth about ourselves and story telling, with all of the artistry of his sixty-three years.
Microfictions by Christian Bell
Tags/ Posted by Mark KerstetterWhat season is it, Cy, when all the birds get dragged backcontinue reading this poem
You tried grabbing the moon when I was holding you, arm outstretched, small hand clutching for night sky. I laughed, said, you can do it, and there it was in your palm, opaque ball humming like an electric heart.
The Mercy Troupers: A Short Story by Rose Deniz
Tags/ Posted by Arts EscapeThe big fat Italian guys with the Chinese characters tattooed onto their man titties sit in the steam room with me and say Jimmie and Hey Jimmie and Jimmie Jimmie.continue reading this poem
“I’m with Jesus,” was spelled out in sequins on a t-shirt tight enough to show she’d graduated from training bra to underwire. Across the field, her mother Orlie’s unisex tee said, “Me, too!”
6 Minute Story: crowd-driven, flash-fiction experiment
Tags/ Posted by Chris Al-AswadA half-naked woman dove into this pool in December.continue reading this poem
Six Minute Story was founded to help people think eloquently on their feet.
We realized if you want to be heard in this A.D.D. world, your point must be brief. If you want to be listened to, your point must be eloquent–you must tell your story remarkably or the audience will interrupt. And then you’re finished.
