Here’s Some Essays I Like

Seth Fischer bio ↓ · October 3rd, 2010 · filed under books

Here’s some very short essays that only take a moment to read and that made me feel something. Hopefully they’ll do the same for you. I got a brief excerpt of each one below. Click on the link for the whole essay.

“I was pretty damn sure I was Jesus. This had been a nagging feeling for a while.” — At Brevity, “Diagnosable” by Joshua Wheeler.

““I…uh…need you to come up and get some stuff,” he said to my mother, who was sitting on the couch, Misty Slim Light 120 in hand. “I found a crack pipe. From a long time ago. And I don’t want to touch it.”” — At Hot Metal Bridge, “This is Not a Pipe” by Ashley Bethard.

“He looked at the sky, then at me. He frowned like I was to blame for what he didn’t find there.” At elimae, “Junk” by Michelle Reale.

“Grandpa did good for high-ranking Reds. Black-and-white photographs of him with the Chairman hang where house guests will look. Curio cabinet after cabinet display his shiny, complicated, a bit garish, Cultural Revolutionary Chinese interpretations of bourgeois gifts and décor, fit for a man who did good for high-ranking Reds.” — At Identity Theory, “My Beijing” by Sunny Woan.

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Seth Fischer's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Swink, Pank, Guernica, Monkeybicycle, Gertrude, and elsewhere. He's working on a novel about a girl who accidentally raises an army and destroys the world, and he's founding editor of The Splinter Generation. He also teaches and tutors and administrates and does copyediting and copywriting so that he can pay bills, but that only works sometimes. If you could help him make that work all the time, he would probably give you a hug, but only if you wanted one. Reach him at seth.fischer (at) gmail.com or @sethfischer. More from this author →

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