creative and critical writing

CREATIVE & CRITICAL

  • angry humans, happy birds

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    Daniel D. Watkins
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    We need to live more like birds and less like dogs. Most birds are social animals, like dogs, but with a key difference, being that, unlike many mammalian species, avians are generally free of group hierarchy. Of course, this may only be a general rule for birds that can fly. After all, chickens, for example, are…

  • jeff buckley’s girlfriend

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    Daniel D. Watkins
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    I met Jeff Buckley’s girlfriend in New York that summer. She said she had been Jeff Buckley’s girlfriend. And I believed her. And even if she hadn’t been, she had. You know, the racked intensity of that summer where every oily brown river appalled. There was still that tortured American soul with all the raw…

  • departures

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    Daniel D. Watkins
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    There was a piano near our departure gate. I sat outside Starbucks, while we waited for our flight and to people watch. Sal had gone to queue. While I was waiting, three teenagers approached the piano for a laugh. Two were egging on a third to sit down and bang the keys. I was curious to…

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