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read for Creative Writing seminar week 4:

"The Conscience of the Court" by Zora Neale Hurston
"The White Horse" by Yasunari Kawabata

also read:
"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid
— Oct 14, 2026 09:59AM
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Shorter Eighth Edition

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paula
paula is on page 150 of 1024
read:
"The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck
"Death by Landscape" by Margaret Atwood (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
"Kew Gardens" by Virgina Woolf
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
— Oct 09, 2026 03:55AM
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paula
paula is on page 110 of 1024
read:

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe (it really is that good)

"Miriam" by Truman Capote

"Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov (a magician with words, truthfully)
— Oct 07, 2026 04:47PM
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paula
paula is on page 80 of 1024
read for Creative Writing seminar week 2:
"Jackson Who Will Be Famous" by Dorothy Allison
"The Moths" by Helena María Viramontes

read for week 3:
"What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?" by E. Annie Proulx
"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

all interesting to read & think about on a craft/technique level, but i liked "the moths" the best. the rest are not quite to my taste.
— Oct 06, 2026 12:19PM
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paula
paula is on page 30 of 1024
"snow" by ann beattie: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"gusev" by anton chekhov: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

"the yellow wallpaper" by charlotte perkins gilman: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
— Sep 27, 2026 04:30AM
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