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Play Excerpt: The Change by Courtenay Schembri Gray

“I’ll lie here when I’m a ghost and smoke ghost cigarettes and watch ye earthlin’s goin’ about yeer pointless days.”-Marina … More

Broadway, Courtenay Schembri Gray, Drama, Dramatist, playwright, Stage, Theatre, Theatre Kid, West End, writing community

Born to Judge

“These born to judge as well as those to writeLet such teach others who themselves excel.” —Alexander Pope, An Essay on … More

Cultural Criticism, Literary Criticism, literature, Poetry

The Butcherbird: A Collage

The funeral eye sleeps like a criminal Sources:

collage, Collage Art, Collage Artist, Derek Jarman, Poetry

Helpless Devil of the Mind

Reading: Armadale by Wilkie Collins / Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot / Everyman Pocket Poets: Art and Artists “Beware of … More

Creative Writing, diary, Fiction, literature

Vampires in the Closet: Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’

Author’s Note: This is an academic article I wrote on Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market.

Academic Essay, books, Cheristina Rossetti, Culture, Goblin Market, Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism., literature, Poetry Criticsm

Mining the Red Wheelbarrow

so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens —The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams When I … More

books, Creative Non Fiction, film, Literary Criticism, literature

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Journey into Folk Horror: Young Goodman Brown (1835)

First published anonymously in the April 1835 edition of The New England Review, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown is considered … More

Gothic, Gothic Literature, Literary Criticism, literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Salem, Short Stories

The Tsundoku (積ん読) Collective

Tsundoku (積ん読): The phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them. The term … More

Booktube, Cultural Criticism, Literary Criticism, literature

Kafka’s Bug

In just a four days, I will be turning twenty-seven years old. For most people, this will make me sound … More

birthday, essay, kafka, philosophy, ramblings

Drowning in Narcissus’ Pond

A✨narcissist✨will create a revolving door of praise around themselves. They will ensure that nobody believes your side of the story. … More

Naricissism, philosophy, Pyschology, Therapy

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