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Flash Fiction Competition 2020 — Second Place
Read more: Flash Fiction Competition 2020 — Second PlaceWe are excited to announce the second place winner of our competition! Check out what Reinier van der Plas has come up with for the prompt “What are we going to do with the flesh-eating plant in our garden?” The Mansionby Reinier van der Plas An old house stood atop the hill at the very…
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Flash Fiction Competition 2020 — Third Place
Read more: Flash Fiction Competition 2020 — Third PlaceWriter’s Block is proud to announce the third place winner of our annual flash fiction competition: Casper Rudolph! The prompt was: “What are we going to do about the flesh-eating plant in our garden?” Check out what Casper came up with below! Arjuno and Pohon Iblisby Casper Rudolph In a second-hand bookshop in Jakarta, Eefje…
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How ‘Waking Life’ Helped Me Accept My Chaos
Read more: How ‘Waking Life’ Helped Me Accept My Chaos“And on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.” -Timothy “Speed” Levitch, Waking Life Waking Life (2001), a relatively hidden cinematic gem, is a movie directed by Richard Linklater. The main character is a young man who passes through life in a dream state, feeling detached from his dreams and…
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From Vinyl to Spotify: A Look at Physical Possessions
Read more: From Vinyl to Spotify: A Look at Physical PossessionsPaul Signac, Portrait of Félix Fénéon Not to sound like a boomer, but nowadays, our entire lives are spent behind screens. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing! Technology has allowed us to achieve some pretty amazing feats, but it is no lie that most of us probably spend too much time on our…
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Ambiguous Hush: An Ecocritical Reading of John Clare’s ‘The Nightingale’s Nest’
Read more: Ambiguous Hush: An Ecocritical Reading of John Clare’s ‘The Nightingale’s Nest’I recently stumbled onto a short YouTube clip of the philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, in which he said that although we humans emerged from nature and are a part of the biological phenomenon of the natural world, this fact does not mean that how we conceive of nature is necessarily accurate or objective. The way we…
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