Tag: literature

  • Tumblr Flash Poetry – Phillipe Chatelain

    Here are the poems I wrote for those who participated in my Tumblr poetry project for National Poetry Month. Each reblog of the promotional post counted as another blog that inspired the corresponding 20-word poem. For the full details please click here. Enjoy! 

  • WORD: A Night to Unite Artists (open mic)

    WORD: A Night to Unite Artists (open mic)

      In Parentheses will be hosting a poetry reading in Allston, MA this weekend. Tweet us for any and all information.

  • Skim Milk and Doorknobs – Short Story by L. Breen

    Skim Milk and Doorknobs – Short Story by L. Breen

    Writer’s Note: An accomplished and eloquent teacher told me that if something is worth writing, it is worth writing until you perfect it, until you believe the story as you believe your own memories. Stories, she said, are where the energy lives inside of us, and our job as writers is to find where that…

  • Styrofoam – Short Story by L. Breen

    Styrofoam – Short Story by L. Breen

    She prefers paper cups to Styrofoam. Styrofoam is too kind on the hands. She always thinks that to hold a Styrofoam cup feels safe, and therefore the liquid inside is at perfect drinking temperature. Only after the initial sip and burnt tongue does she ever find out otherwise. She had done that very thing just…

  • Autobiography, A Concerto in Three Parts – By L. Breen

    Autobiography, A Concerto in Three Parts – By L. Breen

    I: Rubbernecking To be read with much distrust, as lyrics translated from a dead language. A scene pulled from the depths of a child’s memory. We were packed in the car, driving to somewhere or away from something.  Nausea was just setting in or only beginning to wane. The sky was slate gray, indicating some…