A Penny Makes Change
Mark Speight, graduate student in Counseling
Written in the Southwestern College weekly writing group facilitated by Dr. Ann Filemyr
A penny makes change.
A cog fits into the machine and squeaks, occasionally.
A box of pastels mugged me on the way,
yearning to be pulled along the…
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The writing group at SWC is a place where students, faculty, and staff can come together and share in a communal free-writing experience each Thursday at noon. Patterned after Natalie Goldberg's exercises, we start with a prompt of some sort and write for a few minutes, then, if we want, we share what we wrote.…
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Writing has quite simply saved my life. When I was sixteen I was on the verge of ending my life when I received a letter informing me that my first short story and illustration had been accepted for publication. When I was thirty-nine, and had just suffered through the death of my life partner, writing…
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