Ennarath

Ennarath

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Reply to WHITE LIFE: THURSDAY in Writing JoeUser Forums

I thank you all for reading and am glad you... "enjoyed it" sounds like the wrong phrase. Now you see why it was such an "ill fitting chapter."

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Reply to WHITE LIFE: THURSDAY in Writing JoeUser Forums

At firat I thought... what recent circumstance... because this was written before that happened last week. It was based on an earlier piece of writing I did after Columbine. and the experience I had at my own school of someone taking a gun out, the experience of the places that should be safest becoming completely unsafe. Every reaction after that is surreal and nothing makes sense.

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WHITE LIFE: THURSDAY in Writing JoeUser Forums

NONE OF IT MADE ANY SENSE. Afterwards it was difficult to connect it to anything else. For a very long time it was hard to say if it happened in the morning or the afternoon. In Matt Mercurio’s mind it was night and the whole sky was black except for a blood red sun. It happened in the late morning. First lunch period. They were laughing and showing off new cloth

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WHITE LIFE: MONDAY NIGHT in Writing JoeUser Forums

“Oh, good, they get on my nerves. I’m sorry Sid,” Keisha said. “They’re too white for me. I feel like I should be eating cornflakes and mopping the floor in pearls and high heels like Donna Reed.” “I don’t think you’ve ever mopped a floor,” Sidney told her. “in or out of heels.” Keisha cocked her head to think about this, and then said, “No, I think you’re

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Reply to WHITE LIFE in Writing JoeUser Forums

ah.... i think its because at this point for the characters the past and present are running together too. you've gotten half way through this story so now you are literally living with these folks, experiencing the same sometimes confusion as they.

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WHITE LIFE in Writing JoeUser Forums

“From what the report says,” Mark told him, “he wasn’t crying out that much, and Rick, if their parents couldn’t even tell, how could you?” “I could have. I could—” Rick looked for something he could have done. “Well, you heard what Kerch said about Jedd. What if it was lots of students saying that day after day? I could have stopped that. That could have led u

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Reply to WHITE LIFE in Writing JoeUser Forums

you're right. life is an ill fitting chapter, and it's hitting these folks full in the face.

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WHITE LIFE in Writing JoeUser Forums

“HOW ABOUT YOU GET OUT of my way, Riley!” Matt Mercurio snapped, coming down the senior steps of Saint Vitus and slamming into the boy. “Dude, are you even a senior?” Mercurio demanded. “I’m talking to your pimply face, are you?” Mason Darrow was in the main hall of the school and he didn’t hear anything, but he saw. He saw Matt Mercurio being a bully,

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WHITE LIFE: MONDAY NIGHT in Writing JoeUser Forums

There was a knock at the door, and Rick looked up from the homework he was grading. People didn’t come to visit. The knocking was more insistent and Rick looked around the house realizing it wasn’t anywhere near close to clean. He sighed, resigned, and got up to answer the door. “Rick, I have to talk to you,” Mark barged into the house. Rick st

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WHITE LIFE: SATURDAY MORNING in Writing JoeUser Forums

Saint Patrick’s was crowded for High Mass, but everyone was more or less in their usual seats so it wasn’t hard to find Joel. Seth, of course, was not there. Mark was pretty sure Seth didn’t even believe in God. When Mass began Mark tried to pay attention, tried to be reverent, tried to lose himself in the service. He’d always been serious about church even if,

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Reply to THE FALL OUT in Blogging JoeUser Forums

i think you're absolutely right, especially about the fact that, generally, we are liars unless we are hiding behind anonymity.

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THE FALL OUT in Blogging JoeUser Forums

A year ago I wanted to write a book about men. Well, not only a year ago, but many times. And this would have been a book where I got many men, most of them straight, to tell the truth about many questions. But men are liars and so this never really panned out. I thought, how will I tackle this subject? But then doesn’t it make more sense to address the subject

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