2022 April Snippet
Character in a Dickens Novel
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I was walking east on West 11th Street. As I turned the corner to head south on Hudson, I almost spit out my hot tea when I heard it… “Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a… Continue Reading →
“Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel!” I said, looking down at my knees. “I thought I just had tendonitis!” But all these years, the pain was inconsistent. It came and went, it then… Continue Reading →
“Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel!” Ricky shouted out. “Then I guess I am the main character of this chapter because I have it and I can’t keep running with all this money!”… Continue Reading →
“Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel,” silence filled the room.“What…?” Haden asked hesitantly, almost afraid of the answer as he grabbed a book off the shelf and sat down on the plush beanbag.“Gout,”… Continue Reading →
“Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel!”A sentence that would surely leave some in a writing debacle.A winding skyscraper that is quite hard to topple.Some consider it impossible to tackle a writing task this… Continue Reading →
Journal entry 236, week 112 Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel, But apparently it’s also something you can get in a zombie apocalypse. It’s been two years since the outbreak, and it’s become… Continue Reading →
“Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel. You’ve just got a twisted ankle.” Will’s boyfriend, while training for his next marathon, had twisted his ankle. Luckily for Nick, Will was a trained doctor and… Continue Reading →
“Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel,” Tennant said. “It’s worse… It’s far worse than gout,” I say. It has been dubbed “The Noise” by the public. They say that once you hear the… Continue Reading →
“Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel!” Severe pain, redness, swelling to the joints. All symptoms that you can get with gout. You may experience them suddenly while you are asleep. During the attack,… Continue Reading →
Fast Lies, Slow Truth Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel.Arthritis is something you get if you’re in a Disney movie.You’ll get blisters if you’re a character in a Verne novel.And if you find… Continue Reading →
Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel. Gouge yourself on things only rich men can afford,Fill your halls with more gluttonous treasures than your peers could ever knowAnd pay the price for your consumption… Continue Reading →
Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel, yes. My name is John Beep, and I am a character in a Dickens novel. Most of the other characters in a Dickens novel has got gout,… Continue Reading →
“Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel!” “That makes no sense.” I reached across the table to grab another bread stick. Olive Garden style, as my dad calls them. I broke my breadstick in… Continue Reading →
“Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel!” A passing stranger exclaimed. I wondered, who would say something like that. Trying to brush off the weird saying, I continued on my way down the sidewalk…. Continue Reading →
“Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel!” said God. I met God in a small coffee shop in the early morning while I sipped on my coffee and ate a piece of lemon poppy… Continue Reading →
Gout is something you get if you’re a character in a Dickens novel.Scarlet fever, Whooping Cough, Gout; all Dickensians diseases. All with their own ailments, the characters of his novels.John Jasper with addiction, Ebenezer Scrooge with narcissism and schizophrenia,Arthur Havisham… Continue Reading →
November 23, 1967 “Maybe I’ll just destroy them and never do it again.” Of what he had been speaking of, certainly nothing that fixed my mind in the mere direction of the entire thought, of the entire direction he aimed… Continue Reading →
“Maybe I’ll just destroy them and never do it again.”“My love, I promise you it’s not that bad.”I look down at my art, a mess of orange and greens.She also gazes down, a smile plastering her face as she takes… Continue Reading →
“Maybe I just destroy them and never do it again,” Atlas swore. Getting revenge was his plan since the beginning, but he never believed it would be like this. Atlas’s parents and brother had been killed by a crazed gunman… Continue Reading →
Maybe I’ll just destroy them and never do it again.The one I love can never be mine,Not with their partner by their side.But I can’t escape these growing emotions. Love is a concept I’d never experienced before;It’s new, and bright,… Continue Reading →