Tag: writing
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PRESS: When You Write It, Put it In Parentheses
When You Write It, Put It In Parentheses By debuting a new literary magazine, the Boston University duo of Phillipe Chatelain (CAS ‘13) and Michael Pitter (CAS ‘12) are attempting to preserve their generation’s artistic and literary impact post Post-Modernism.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Issue 2: October 2012
PROMO: The second issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine is coming October 1, 2012. Counting the days. Submissions click here.
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Day 21 – Short Story by L. Breen
He had been slamming his body against the glass pane for nearly an hour before someone came to the window — a boy in search of the afternoon breeze. The fly flew in, seeking a home in which he could spend the final day of his short life expectancy, Day 21. The fly had heard…
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Writers Write – Poem by J.Gawrych
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A Black Author’s Duty – Essay by P Chatelain
Visionary Writers of the Harlem Renaissance and their Critics Black writers’ struggle with publication of Black novels and poems due to the enormous white readership. Did they have a duty to depict minorities under a certain light?
