Author Archives: Alex Alvarez
I Write Like David Foster Wallace And Fourteen Others
Because I have a lot of important things to do, I decided to waste my time. There goes my logic. I found this site which compares writers to other writers. The description of their site on their site is as … Continue reading
An Elegy to David Foster Wallace by Jonathan Franzen
I was searching for works of some writers I like when I stumbled upon an article which contains an elegy by Jonathan Franzen to David Foster Wallace. The piece, for me, was painful and it was not because of the … Continue reading
Good News, Bad News
Good news, I no longer have acute gastritis. Bad news, I now have chronic gastritis. I kind of played and played that bit on my mind, imagining that was how my doctor said my diagnosis, then I would go like, … Continue reading
Cold
Few hours after dusk and fewer hours before dawn, I stay in the kitchen. Sometimes I’m reading, sometimes I’m writing, but most of the time I’m just there. I would stay and wait until I can feel an icy sensation … Continue reading
So There’s This Story
…that got published at Fifty Word Stories and it’s mine. You can read, comment and rate by going to this link: A Cup of Chocolate. A Cup of Chocolate He shook Emma side to side to wake her up. “Wake up, … Continue reading
I Am An Island
And once on an island, there lived an island He is protected by the fortress of his stresses And rhymes and lines and meters He is his own island, blinded by his own sand And his poetry reflects blitheness, his … Continue reading
Some Writer-ly News
A story of mine, A Cup of Chocolate, will be published on December 21, 2012. It’s another fifty word story. It’s Christmas themed and with a little sprinkling of loss and dying so I guess that’s why it will be … Continue reading
