Tag: art

• Running Home

  Emma was in Boston the last time she’d ventured out for a jog. It had rained that morning and the puddles lay like landmines along her sidewalk-to-pond-and-back circuit. The mud splashed up to her ankles and had caked thickly on the laces of her running shoes. Now, in the living room of her parents’ Pennsylvanian…

  Dan Metzger

  August 25, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  application, art, books, Boston, Christmas tree, Christmas tree farm, city, college, creative writing, Donna Haraway, exercise, family, farm, farmer, Fiction, home, homecoming, literary theory, literature, narrative, narratology, Pennsylvania, reliance, run, Runner’s World, running, running shoes, self-acceptance, self-discovery, self-reflection, small town, smartphone, teaching, technology, town, tradtiion

• Fodder for Retrospect

  

  The limp expression on his face was nothing new, but it still tore gently into Monica’s chest each time she looked at her son. With each tear in the fabric of motherhood, she buried the urge to give up, to send him to another doctor, to admit to the nagging suspicion that she might be…

  Dan Metzger

  August 19, 2015

  Fiction, Scene, Short Story

  art, bipolar, bipolar disorder, city, college, communication, creative writing, daughter, depression, despair, driving, family, Fiction, hope, love, mental health, mental illness, mother, music, psychology, scene, son

• Attic

  

  All day I have been hearing jazz faintly playing in my room. It does not seep through the wall nor does it rise from the chambers below. The riffs are generated within my mind. My ears glimpse phantom sound waves—unseen, invisible. Their nonexistence will startle me any longer. For I am a music box of…

  Dan Metzger

  April 23, 2015

  Essay, Rudimentary Philosophy

  art, attic, books, creative writing, days, Fiction, future, inspire, jazz, life, listen, memory, movement, music, past, progress, prufrock, read, routine, self-improvement, wallpaper, write, writing

• The Goddess Who Lives on the Dirt Road off Route 12

  

  Every morning, on my drive to school, I see her waiting for the yellow bus to come and haul her off to St. Paul’s School for Girls. She wears a red and blue plaid skirt and a navy blue sweater vest because that’s what all the girls have to wear at that place. I drive…

  Dan Metzger

  June 25, 2013

  Character Sketch, Fiction

  art, country, country road, creative writing, dirt road, domestic violence, family, Fiction, girl, obsession, painting, young love