exercises

  • The Red House

    ByCarma Spence

    This is a response to “The Red House” by Marc Chagall (right). It was an assignment in a creative writing class I took at Santa Rosa Junior College. She stands in the door sill wishing, wanting, but, alas, not having. Beneath the floating oxen, he watches her, wishing, wanting, but, alas, not having. Between them…

  • Black Halloween

    ByCarma Spence

    For an exercise we did in the first grade, we were given a bunch of magazines and cards and stuff. We were to collect a bunch of images that we liked. Then we were to write a story about them. This was one of my stories. Once upon a time, long before you were even…