Pure Writerly Moments (Blog P...

By DanielLClausen

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Some moments just have to be written. Sometimes, a simple story, essay, or journal entry becomes more. What a... More

Introduction -- Part 1 --About Writing
Pure Writerly Moments - Part 1 - Gotta Write
Pure Writerly Moments - Part 2 - On the Literary Uses of Tank Tops
Pure Writerly Moments - Part 3 - The Dream was but a Dream
Pure Writerly Moments - Part 4 - The Sage
Pure Writerly Moments - Part 5 - Beer
Pure Writerly Moments - Part 6 - A Pure Writerly Ending
The Pure Writerly Moment Continues!
A Time Machine
What is Magic Realism?
The Novel Idea that Got Away
Aphorisms and Reflections on a Literary Life (Part 1)
Aphorisms and Reflections on a Literary Life (Part 2)
A Love Letter to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The General and His Labyrinth."
Introduction - Part 2 - Book Reviews
Don Quixote -- A Book Review in Three Sallies
Harry Potter and the Magical Grapes of Wrath
Against Flaky Protagonists in Fiction; or a Review of Ash Wednesday
Review of Heart of Darkness (Long Review)
Review - Harry Whitewolf's The Road to Purification
Review of Murakami Ryu's Almost Transparent Blue
Hans Rosling's "Factfulness" and the Problem of Tribalism
Review - The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue
Mr. Clausen and the Half-Explained Harry Potter Addiction
The Reviewerator (A review of Snow Crash)
Review - Lester Goran's "Tales from the Irish Club"
Book Review - The Silent Cry (Kenzaburo Oe)
Review - Seven Habits of Highly Successful People
Review of Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger)
Book Review: Moby Dick
Introduction to Part 3 - Strike, Strike, and Strike Again
Rachel
A Fetishist Theory of Love (Short Story)
Steps (Postcard Short)
The Dragon (Postcard Shorts)
Three Short Works of Prose
Earwax
Dame! Kitanai!
Tequila, 4:20
Hemingway Would Know
Oxygen Pills, or The Subtle Art of Not Giving Up
The Gentle Hand
Introduction -- Part 4 - Works in Progress
Statues in the Cloud -Tease #1 - The Opening
The Letter - (Statues in the Cloud Tease # 2)
Missing Pieces (Statues in the Cloud Tease # 3)
Lao Tzu's Soul in a Bottle - A Prelude (The Sage and the Scarecrow)
Hollowing Out in the Apocalypse (Sage and the Scarecrow Chapter 1)
The Therapist or the Dictator? (The Sage and the Scarecrow)
Introduction - Part 5 - Eternally in Progress
A Splash of Red
The Toxic Now
Strictly about the Hair
Harbinger of Horror
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 36
Music Review: The Music of Roxanne Andrighetti
Travel
Lazy Sunday (Feb 10, 2019) - A Picture Journal
Other Books by Daniel Clausen

Four Short Works of Prose

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Na. Ta. Lee. 


Na. Ta. Lee. Natalie, life's paprika, the spice of my life. My torment, the reason for my unreason. Na-ta-lee: a step to the left, two steps to the right. A love too hot to register. Na - left - ta -right - lee - right. A tap dance with desire. A Texas three-step with agonizing love. Na. Ta. Lee.  


A Positive Change


Sam started telling people to sod off. He did it with a smile. Since most of the Americans had no idea what he was talking about, he got into less fights. Not a bad change. A sign of maturity for ol' Sam.


Story's over. Now sod off, reader.


Cygor 2040


Comically bad presidents had gone out of style in the 30s. Absurdism was now in style.


The cyborg gorilla who wore lady's underwear on his head was the right choice for the times. He had to get rid of the shoulder-mounted laser though because he only used it to point to graphs and charts when giving speeches.


Too professorial, polling had found.



The Pen Thief


Someone was stealing pens. It was Tom. But Tom had a reason. Rachel loved to chew on the ends when she was nervous. Chew. Chew. Chew. Until her teeth marks were visible. Coworkers used to complain. So, he'd take them home. When confronted about his transgressions by his boss, he explained himself simply: It was a crime of passion.  

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