A History of Literary Suicides

Here's a excerpt from the short story I've been slaving away at from my Creative Writing class. Okay, yes, I am being slightly dramatic. I do enjoy the slaving away. I'm looking for constructive criticism on the piece, so I would love it if anyone could help by emailing me with comments. I will  continue to post my progress! 

A History of Literary Suicides

A BRIEF PROLOGUE

This is a story of love among the suicides. It is a love of misshapen words, the way death falls
cleanly over the mind (years before it slows the pulse), memories of lying under a middle 
aged house one stark and crudely drawn evening and life (in the multicolored sense of the 
word). Today Sloane will wake up and be many places and many sides of herself at once. She 
will transcend herself violently. She will go quietly. She will write an essay that results in 
being more autobiographical than academic. She will walk away from the outlines of her life, 
down her street, holding the manuscript clutched between her hands like a secret. By the end 
of today, Sloane will have slashed her wrists, leaving behind only discreet tattoos of memory 
on the skin.

On Conformity

Here's a poem I wrote in my Creative Writing class:

Blessing the table:
they begin with the sign of the cross and then comes
 the preheated blush of words.
 I struggle along with the sentences.
 I watch their mouths and my own voice falls rapidly downward as
I spit out the keyholed shapes and sounds of prayers.

This is what. Conformity (in the sense of religion) is easy to chew.

Sam

Who I am (in a nutshell):



Hello! My name is Sam and I'm a fourteen year old unschooled autodidact. I'm interested in educating myself about the mechanics of things--history, literature, culture, society, language. I'm currently taking a creative writing course at my local university, where I'm crafting my first short story (about the issue of suicide among writers). I take private French lessons, am part of a paddling team and volunteer at a youth crisis hotline.

In my free time I like experimenting with dying my hair various colors, watching Katharine Hepburn movies and teaching myself the ways of an educational deviant.

My current personal project is on Virginia Woolf. I'm reading all of her major works and hope to write a series of critical essays on her, which you'll see showcased in this blog. I'm playing with abstract ways of writing essays on historical figures, so tell me what you think once I've posted them!