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Jamie

2013-02-14T18:45:44-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 6,410, Reviews: 1, In-Progress

Relatively personal. Jamie, I mean. His little girlfriends are just the cloying byproducts of a poor imagination. Don't judge him too harshly.

Argos

2013-02-09T12:49:55-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
General
English, Rated: M
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 5,993, Reviews: 1, Complete

Many of the stories herein are composites from various sources; I have endeavoured to draw them all together in a spiritually and emotionally dynamic way.

Memoirs

2011-05-25T11:56:15-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
Biography
English, Rated: M
Drama/Angst
Chapters: 3, Words: 9,351, Reviews: 3, In-Progress

My first attempt at a work of significant length since the 7th grade. Unplanned and conceived in a series of 4 AM writing splurges; if chapters tend to derivate and elements be poorly sketched, this is due to a total lack of polish!

Ward

2011-04-29T16:50:52-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
Young Adult
English, Rated: M
Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 11,875, Reviews: 4, Complete

A semi-autobiographical account of three days spent in a mental hospital from the perspective of a misanthropic, pessimistic, and ultimately psychotically unstable teenager

Penitentiary, with Sound and Fury

2011-04-19T19:00:42-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
Essay
English, Rated: T
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,623, Reviews: 0, Complete

A rendering of William Blake's "London" with the aid of the Macbeth quote: "It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing."

Poker Match

2011-03-24T14:07:16-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
General
English, Rated: M
General/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 5,809, Reviews: 2, Complete

What happens when an evening's masturbation and planned intercourse with a young Russian harlot is interrupted the five most prominent composers of the 18th through 20th centuries demanding a poker match...

An Expression of Expressionless: Eliot's Rhapsody

2011-03-21T08:38:11-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
Essay
English, Rated: T
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,873, Reviews: 0, Complete

A Rhapsody on a Windy Night rendering with focus on nothingness

Lady Lazarus and it's Grisly Triumph

2011-03-21T08:36:03-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
Essay
English, Rated: T
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,077, Reviews: 0, In-Progress

A Lady Lazarus rendering with focus on the macabre

Es ist genug

2011-03-20T21:34:39-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
General
English, Rated: M
General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 6,588, Reviews: 1, Complete

A 19th century housewife is forced to acquire her individuality and must partake of everyday affairs with forced positivity in the wake of unexplained murder, dreading that her husband's self-imposed exile will leave her feeble and alone.

Sadhbh Ní Bhruinneallaigh

2011-02-03T20:29:21-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
General
English, Rated: M
Drama/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 4,764, Reviews: 3, Complete

A convergence of the twain; the past and the present of Ireland in a chance rendezvous in Dublin's St Stephen's Green. The question-and-answer section is bollocks, yet pivotal towards my theme. Kindly commentate on its' effectiveness.

Paranoia

2011-01-24T11:42:56-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
General
English, Rated: T
Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,900, Reviews: 0, Complete

A smattering of thoughts from this morning, not all of them sane

Lady Mac

2011-01-14T13:22:38-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,460, Reviews: 0, Complete

A burnt-out musician's phantasmagoric drunken odyssey into the heart of Duke Ellington's 'Lady Mac', with the character Music leading him by the hand

The Idyll of the Toad and the Princess

2011-01-14T11:59:03-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
General
Latin, Rated: T
Drama/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,916, Reviews: 2, Complete

Post-sex. Sheer garbage in which a former Irish-Brit musician contemplates a poem of William Butler Yeats that declares knowledge of 'Child, Virgin, Harlot, and Lion' and examines it in quasi-stream of consciousness after his night with a young prostitute

Pádraig, Sé do Bheatha Bhaile

2011-01-14T11:52:53-08:00

Author: Salvatore Paradise
General
English, Rated: T
Drama/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 6,424, Reviews: 7, Complete

Examining the what-ifs of a classical 'Night of Experimentation of Celtic Music' in a tavern-scene; set amidst the backdrop of uneasy Hiberno-English relations in the late 20th century