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davidbiddle

Trying to get beyond what is fake and what is real, cuz there's always something more. Look for my stories and essays here and online.

The New World

On September 11th we needed to say goodbye.Our phones are mobile nowSo we did. And somewhereIn that bright blue skySamuel Barber’s Adagio for StringsFound every one of us. We needed to say goodbye to innocence;Goodbye to an innocenceWe did not […]

September 11, 2006 0 42 sec read

Maybe Everything Depends on the Wedding

What the writer leaves out is the fact that not only do the lovers travel into the sun (such a beautiful and straightforward metaphor for the future) but the rest of the world rides off with them as well.

August 10, 2021 0 4 min read

The Bone and the Flower: New Frontiers of Literature or Sexual Fantasy?

Guernica, which is one of the best online culture magazines out there today, just posted their November 1 edition, and it’s quite a compendium of stories, interviews, essays, art, and poetry. They offer a pretty insightful interview with Junot Diaz […]

November 1, 2012 1 8 min read

Spilling Your Guts: Writing That Makes a Beautiful Mess

It took me at least a year of college to learn to live with my Midwestern sincerity. I went to a school on the West Coast full of super smart people. That was bad enough — being kind of average […]

May 19, 2013 1 6 min read