Creative nonfiction Archives - 33rdStreetNarratress

As an Artist, I’m on an Alphabet Soup Diet, and I Am Starving

As an artist, I’m on an alphabet soup diet, and I am starving. I chew and swallow, but the letters get stuck on the way down, caught in a tangle of run on sentences that wraps tighter witheach question mark I dot. The lifting of a spoon to my cracked lips animates my taste buds, […]
The Effect of “Unfinished Sympathy” by Massive Attack

I decided that this was the best song I’d ever experienced. But I’ve heard it before, more than once, and didn’t so much as bat an eye. I had been stuck in highway hypnosis when this mostly unfamiliar song came on, one by the artist that I’d been milking dry for the past 3 days. […]
Haunted By My Phantom Limbs

When we were children, my friend said that she plucks the legs off of spiders and watches them try to dance. She said it casually, as if expecting to be met with like-mindedness. Even now when I see a spider, I imagine it with a lack of legs, too small to even bleed, bouncing around […]

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