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| Cleolinda |
Author has written 26 stories for General, General, Family, Love, School, Essay, Friendship, Humor, and Historical. Just your basic struggling grad student trying to finish a novel. You can also find me at http://www.dailydigest.net http://cleolinda.blogspot.com http://cleolinda.easyjournal.com because I obviously haven't bitten off more than I can chew. Yet. Direct URL for The Black Ribbon/Bennet-Jones Correspondence site: http://www.geocities.com/cleolindajones/contents.html Please feel free to critique my work and suggest improvements or point out problems. Constructive criticism is always welcome, because I dig revising. I'm tough; I can take it. ; ) 9/23: All right, a good bit of the first Black Ribbon installment is up here at FP, partly because I want to see how it looks, and partly because any suggestions anyone has for revision would be helpful, as this is going up on the site next Friday (10/3). Arrrrgh. 8/10: I think I may actually post a segment of the Bennet-Jones Correspondence here as sort of an exclusive, as I don't really have room for it on the web page. It's chapter 4 (Letter 3b), the Speedy Print notice. I'm out of fiction workshop for now, and I'll be posting the revised stories soon. For the fall semester: a fiction workshop and a poetry workshop, plus a class on Yeats and Heaney. Should be interesting, and it'll all be posted here. 7/24: I'm way too excited about this. Just uploaded the first in a series of letters that will lead up to a story I want to serialize, "The Black Ribbon." You can see the last photographs of Mr. D. Everett Russell here at the Black Ribbon site (URL above). The next letter will come out August 1. I've also uploaded the story I'm nervous about workshopping on Tuesday, "The Apple of His Eye." It's one of the Will & Claire stories that may end up going into my novel (sans a few visits from the Department of Back Story). 7/3/03: I've just finished uploading most of my finished, readable work (it's a surprisingly small selection. Sigh). I'm in a fiction workshop right now; I just revised "The New World" for my turn on Tuesday. I don't have much done on my nonfiction workshop project, "Havana January," because it became a lot longer and more involved than I thought it would be. So stay tuned for some new chapters on that one. | |||||
1. wom'•an•ly • words » reviewsAn epic, experimental, self-indulgent dictionary poem. (Hey, consider yourself warned.)Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,033 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-13-03 - Published: 7-4-032. Smoke reviews"In sleep now I lean against graffiti, a smoke Garbo-cool in hand..."Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-12-033. I'm Losing You"And in that prescient limbo I could only say 'I'm losing you,' as if straining to hear you on a cellular..."Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 211 - Published: 12-12-034. On the Run reviewsMy entry for National Novel Writing Month, in progress.Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,361 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-1-035. The Black Ribbon » reviewsA Victorian doctor finds herself caught up in a series of mysterious attacks. Gothic, a little steampunk. Please R&R.Fiction: Historical - Rated: M - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 3 - Words: 28,536 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 10-21-03 - Published: 10-13-036. The Two Tickets reviews"And outside the war cry of the eight o'clocks, denied entrance, went up like a great howl of rage: 'WE BOUGHT OUR TICKETS ON FANDANGO"Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,955 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 10-14-037. The Bennet Jones Correspondence » reviewsA series of letters leading up to a story I'm going to serialize called The Black Ribbon.Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 12 - Words: 3,564 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-7-03 - Published: 7-24-038. Famine reviews" I wonder if she sculpts perfect meals for herself out there, too—round, voluptuous fruits and loaves and roots—and eats the wet clay whole."Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 516 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-3-039. The Apple of His Eye reviewsWill starts to worry that intimacy with his much younger wife will kill him.Fiction: General - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,189 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-24-0310. August reviewsA short story that became the jumping-off point for a novel. Actually won a contest a few years back, but feels a little overdone now.Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,917 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-6-0311. Letter to a Lost Acquaintance reviews"You know I'm here, waiting for words to break ice and swim like salmon with tales of seven seas to tell."Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 300 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-5-0312. Patricide reviewsA student kills her father... in a manner of speaking.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-5-0313. Alone on the Longest DayVery short poem trying to capture a moment in time.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Published: 7-5-0314. Havana January » reviewsI spent a week in Cuba and lived to tell the tale. Multi-chapter work in progress.Fiction: Essay - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 6,155 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-3-0315. The New WorldAn amnesiac taken in by a police officer and his wife is strangely unconcerned that she can't remember anything.Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,047 - Published: 7-3-0316. Debating an Apple"Pare this new-ripened skin... apples were made to be eaten."Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Published: 7-3-0317. The Florida Odyssey reviews"If heaven is tailored to the individual—and I believe it is—my heaven is on a mountainside. My family... prefers the beach."Fiction: Essay - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,413 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-3-0318. Passing Time with Magazines in HospitalThe speaker tries to "save" the animals she sees in hunting magazines.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 250 - Published: 7-3-0319. Beautiful Girl reviewsA short story about two characters in a May-December relationship; related to, but not yet part of, a novel I'm writing.Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,382 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-2-0320. Elegy of Joy to a Dead Cat reviewsFor some reason, dissecting a cat in high school became an almost spiritual experience.Poetry: School - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-2-0321. Written on the Body reviewsThe tactile impressions we leave remain like ghosts.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-2-0322. Constant Comment reviews"You cannot threaten a thing tempered by fire, designed shatterproof, lifetime guaranteed."Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 562 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-2-0323. Yellow Bird"On the way to work, I saw a dead body."Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,130 - Published: 7-2-0324. NonAlcoholics Anonymous reviewsA poem about two characters from my fiction, Will and Claire, based on the style of Browning's "My Last Duchess."Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 798 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-2-0325. Ode to a Blue TShirt reviewsThe speaker expresses gratitude to her husband's favorite shirt. Inspired by an ode Pablo Neruda wrote to blue socks.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 182 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-2-0326. Gringo Soap reviewsI wished I could have given something back after I spent a week in Havana.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 206 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-2-03
