Um…. I’m not sure how to describe the piece of fiction that I just read, except to say, “it was interesting.”
Titled Branches #4: Notes On a Funeral, the fiction piece seems to be written to someone who has died. It includes this evocative paragraph:
Become a ghost. Please. Sift down through the grey clouds like flour and drift into our apple pies. Curl into a rain drop and slide down our windshields. Hover around like mist if you have to.
The author also writes lists of “Acceptable Comments to Make Into a Microphone at a Funeral” and “Unacceptable Comments to Make…”
I just re-read it (to make sure I’m actually writing accurately about it) and I still don’t get it. But I like it.
Maybe you will, too.
Link: Branches #4: Notes On a Funeral
Want a laugh? Check Out a Sympathy Card Gone Bad at Overheard in the Office
August 7, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Tim,
You do find the most unusual stuff in your voyage thru the net. I liked the office site, but I don’t get the chick writing about the funeral. She must be one of those artsy-fartsy folks I do not relate to particulary well.
Interesting stuff, that.
August 7, 2008 at 3:59 pm
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