Blog Post 2.2: (An Attempt To Use) An Effective Break (Well)

“A professional student?  We had one of you in the family before,” she said, her piercing blue eyes fading quickly from the present, back to somewhere less cloudy. I smiled as the brogue slipped off of her tongue and brought…

Blog Post 2.1: An Effective Break

“And I expected, as the fissure closed, that my first wife would disappear. I was wrong.” This simple paragraph break is effective in Callahan’s short essay “Chimera” for a number of reasons. The style of the second paragraph, a simple…

Revised: Essay and Cover Letter 1: Thirty Minutes and One Hundred Dollars

Essay: ThirtyMinutesEssayRV Thirty Minutes and One Hundred Dollars   “You lying sack of shit”, he murmured under his breath as he tossed my newly printed driver’s license back at me.  I looked up at him with my deep green eyes, smiling…