Harper Lewis
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I'm a subversive weirdo nerd witch who loves rocks. Intrusive rhyme bothers me. Some of my fiction may have provoked divorce proceedings in another state.đ
My words are mine. Suggest ai use and get eviscerated.
MA English literature, CofC
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Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Faulkner
When people ask if I like Faulkner or Hemingay, like theyâre Maryann and Ginger, it irks me. My answer is yes, and itâs not like, itâs love. And why are you neglecting Steinbeck? I reject the idea that a reader can only read one style and like it. Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Faulkner are my holy trinity, my neapolitan ice cream. At the risk of stating the obvious, Hemingway is vanilla, Steinbeck is strawberry, and Faulkner is chocolate. I love them all.
By Harper Lewis2 months ago in Geeks
The Blood of Eve I. Content Warning.
I didnât want to kill any of them, but I had to so they wouldnât get hurt. Iâve seen the world and what it can do to people. Iâve seen depravity the likes of which you wouldnât believe. The things men will do when theyâre drunk and high on amphetamines and testosterone if a girl or woman is available. Or nearby and unprotected.
By Harper Lewis2 months ago in Horror
Girl Thursday and Johnny-on-the-Spot
Iâm always early, and no one ever believes me. Hi, my name is Cassandra, Cassie to my friends, and thatâs Johnny, with his trusty toolbox beside me. He gets the credit, I get the blame: Girl Thursday and Johnny-on-the-Spot.
By Harper Lewis2 months ago in Critique
Dinner
Whiskey tango foxtrot. Would you look at the seating chart my brother just handed me? It was a nightmare worthy of Phobetor and Phantasos. I swatted him with it then told him he could seat the ladies. That should fix his little red chariot but good. âAnd tell Aphrodite to dress for dinner. I wonât have her at my table in cut offs and a tube top.â I noticed Hermes glancing at the chart. âAny table.â If thereâs a loophole, heâll find it. If there isnât, heâll make one.
By Harper Lewis2 months ago in Fiction
Tam-Oh-Shanât-Her. Content Warning.
This is an example for my dirty limerick contest. Iâm not kidding about keeping it dirty. Nothing cutesy playing at being dirtyâif youâre a clean, Polly pure type, this isnât for you, and you might get hurt feelings in here. Youâve been warned, so proceed with filthy caution.
By Harper Lewis2 months ago in Poets
My Little Chickadee
Itâs probably no surprise that I absolutely adore Mae West, author of some of the best one-liners ever penned or spoken on this earth. I learned about My Little Chickadee in undergrad, when I was in the English department chatting with Cowboy Mike, our lit-to-film guru, and he told me sbout it, told me that Mae West and W.C. Fields wrote their own dialogue for this 84-minute gem. But thatâs not strictly true: they wrote the entire screenplay, not just their own dialogue.
By Harper Lewis2 months ago in Critique
The Blood of Eve VIII. Content Warning.
I donât like the basement. I try not to go down there, but sometimes I have to. Itâs where you have to go when youâve been bad, even if nobody knows. I prop the door open when I go down there, and I put a brick in tbe doorjamb, too. Iâm not getting trapped in a spooky basement with that big bleeding Jesus heart. Uh-uh, not me.
By Harper Lewis2 months ago in Horror
Nine Souls for a Bloody Mary. Content Warning.
If you think back to the autumn into winter challenges, you may remember that I found the villanelle challenge psychologically abusive and you may have accepted a free pass to my insanity show in one of these pieces. (Fuck you, Vocal, for that villanelle of regret challenge. I hope it was as torturous for the team to read them as it was for me, as it's only fair to reap what you sow. (Parentheses intentionally left open. Did it again.
By Harper Lewis2 months ago in Writers
