CynthiaSmith
Profile
I love many, many female authors of different nationalities and centuries: Virginia Woolf, Nancy Huston, the Brontes, Marguerite Duras, Doris Lessing, Maryse Condé, Georges Sand…
I have a Master’s degree in French from Tufts University and a year of a doctoral program at Boston University, also in French.
I am currently considering a creative writing program.
Groups
CynthiaSmith is a member of A Novel Idea, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Everyday Life, Short stories - Spherical Scriptings and WMG.
Writing
Adam's Ear
Am I forever / Comdemned to play / Your mad scientist / Eager for you, for / Dissecting your brain / To look at what stirs / Inside? When will I / Be free / From reasoning about / Your morbid…
Like Water
My love for you / Is eternally foam / Vainly soaring from the sea to go on / Swashing, swirling around you, / Around the harshness of your stultified being / -You, hardly perceiving it, even thoug…
An Older Man
Vincent knows he had strayed from that dreamy path as soon as he decided to quit his creative writing program and become a computer programmer instead. It’s not that he hated computer programming; …
The Raggedy Female Shoplifter (edited)
A ragged woman trudged by the window of a small book shop in a busy Parisian street. Languidly, she spotted, behind the mesh of grey hair that fell haggardly over her eyes, a book – an autobiograph…
The Glass Bridge (part 1)
A pair of sleepy eyes glanced at an article on tankers Boston Phoenix newspaper. More precisely, a pair of sleepy eyes was focusing on an ordinary local newspaper article. They did not land on the …
The Glass Bridge (part 2)
The picture remained on the kitchen table, next to her cup of coffee. She couldn’t bring herself to pick it. The gigantic tanker imprinted on the paper, which she had torn from the rest of the art…
