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O.K. Mantz Who are you Thea? A voice silently echoed through the city streets, perceived by no one but herself. When the pitch tapped her...
Owen Mantz
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Pulchra Proditione
O.K. Mantz Auspiciously, I slide the soft, matted book underneath my topcoat, slyly, perfectly sleighting my body and shifting my hands...
Owen Mantz
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Legacy
O.K. Mantz “You know— when the moonlight glistens as mystérieuse as tonight, the glass door of your heart reveals what lies hidden...
Owen Mantz
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Elend
O.K. Mantz I despair that the greatest wisdom could only be discovered at the end of all life. Survivor: listen to me now! For I have...
Owen Mantz
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Whispers in the Wind
O.K. Mantz Her mouth drooped down to her sternum and her eyes tore open wide as though attempting a jail-break from her skull....
Owen Mantz
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Delusions
O.K. Mantz Scintillating crystal gems hang from alabaster spider’s silk draped from wiry thin, mahogany branches only partially covered...
Owen Mantz
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On Prose Strategies of Equiano and Boswell
O.K. Mantz What remains most important, whether subjective or objective, is the truth. Both Boswell and Equiano attempt to establish the...
Owen Mantz
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
O.K. Mantz An unusual, yet mesmeric tale, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” concerns a Mariner who shoots (and kills) an Albatross, which...
Owen Mantz
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The Literary Imaginations of Equiano and Coleridge
O.K. Mantz A strong writer displays imagination, intuition, insight— qualities that are expected to radiate through their work....
Owen Mantz
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The Strings of Analysis
O.K. Mantz The short story “The Piano Tuner” is, in short, a story about life. A piano tuner, Claude, finds himself entangled in a...
Owen Mantz
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The Romantic Monsters
O.K. Mantz With two radical parents—Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin—Mary Shelley artistically portrays a vehement tension between...
Owen Mantz
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THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
O.K. Mantz Trapped in a liminal space between Romantic ambitions and a sense of distance and resignation, the Victorian Age witnessed a...
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“Ode: Intimations of Immortality”—An Analysis
O.K. Mantz Beginning as he does in so many other poems, Wordsworth first establishes the transience of the natural world. All things...
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Alger, Who Are You?
O.K. Mantz Behind a dark, wine coloured curtain lounges Alger, directly before Justin Ernest, the broad shouldered interviewer. The...
Owen Mantz
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A Crimson Puddle
O.K. Mantz His chin tilted back and he gazed past the wispy clouds, staring intently at the weakly scintillating stars behind them. A...
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The Puppeteer
O.K. Mantz A single strand of silk sprints upward until completely vanishing within the jaws of a starving cumulus cloud. The string is...
Owen Mantz
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The Sheep Do Whisper of a Wolf
O.K. Mantz A response to Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” Sir Walter Ralegh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the...
Owen Mantz
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Weighted Beryl Tears
O.K. Mantz A feldspar road of beryl tears Lies battered, broken from the years In gloom and smog and darkness wrapped I, blinded, on this...
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And Thus Said God: "I AM Weak"
O.K. Mantz Like a body wanting bones, my heart crumples to the ground; constructed of a thin layer of skin, like the brittle skin of...
Owen Mantz
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The Weight of a Die
O.K. Mantz “Roll the die.” Grim snapped open his hand and let the die tumble onto the rugged surface of the bar table. He was leaned...
Owen Mantz
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