Author: Bryan Kemler
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On Grief
The alarm clock in your room blinks perpetual midnight i cannot bear to change it i don’t know why i find its movement calming. your bed is made which means you’re not here a poignant reminder of your absence parents don’t want to clear the bedrooms of departed children i haven’t seen a sunny day…
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The Weiner Transcript
4/24/17 quality assurance recording of Defendant Weiner’s phone call to leasing company [recording commences] Operator: Bench and Bus Leasing, how may I help you? Weiner: Just put your fucking boss on lady, I do not have time to monkey around with underlings. Operator: If you say so, but Mr. Li…
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Report from the Electoral College
It is the constitutional duty of Electors to vote their conscience in the Electoral College. After all, it isn’t a rubber stamp. Any Elector that struggles to vote for Trump can, and should, change their vote to a more moderate Republican. The House of Representatives could then elect a different Republican. In “What Would Hamilton…
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What Would Hamilton Do?
This week, a Texas elector named Christopher Suprun declared that he will not cast his vote for Donald Trump. Mr. Suprun, a lifelong Republican, believes that Mr. Trump is inherently unqualified to be president, and will not vote for him, despite having sworn an oath to do so. Mr. Suprun cites his conscience, and his…
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The Famous Opening Paragraph of Haunting of Hill House
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks…
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Characterization Rules
Here are the prompts. Name the character. Use myself or someone I know discreetly. And I do, of course, want to have friends, so I’m very careful about how I use other people in my fiction. Borrow from a newspapers story. I’m a big fan of local papers where there’s lots of sort of gossipy…