Shit My Students Write

Never gets old.

| Jan 30, 2012
What Dogs May Dream

What Dogs May Dream

7 notes | | Jan 30, 2012
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photographer unknown

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283 notes | | Jan 30, 2012
Birth control

Birth control

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353 notes | | Jan 30, 2012
Cuore by Liviana Osti “a reminder that one should drink as much water as wine…”

Cuore by Liviana Osti

“a reminder that one should drink as much water as wine…”

(Source: nevver)

1,941 notes | | Jan 30, 2012

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

 Elmore Leonard
| Jan 30, 2012
Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye

The river is famous to the fish.

The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.

The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.

The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.

The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.

I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.

1 note | | Jan 18, 2012
Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes

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1,159 notes | | Jan 18, 2012
Two weeks ago, farmer Vernon Phipps, 53, who runs 1,000-acre Westhill Farm, near Banbury, Northamptonshire, awoke to find a gang had executed his entire flock by shooting them in the neck to preserve the meat. The raiders had bundled 26 of the best carcasses into a van to sell on the black market. The ones they didn’t want they left dead and dying on the grass. Mr Phipps said: “We think the gunman used a silencer, otherwise someone would have heard the shots. They were also careful to take away the rifle shells. They even shut the gate when they left. Number of sheep thefts doubles in six months as meat prices soar
| Jan 3, 2012
Have Brain, Will Travel

Have Brain, Will Travel

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3,672 notes | | Dec 21, 2011

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