October 16th

During class on Wednesday October 2nd we discussed the fiction packet in depth as a class. It was hard to follow because the fiction packet is a bunch of short poems put together that are very different and confusing. The first poem was about a homosexual couple who were both passing away from a disease sounding similar to AIDS. One of the partners does not want to pass away before the other because losing a loved one is hard and he did not want to deal with his partner's parent's and the parrot. He did not want to be blamed for possibly giving him the disease, he loved his boyfriend and they were both terribly sad. Both men want to die first because being the surviver in a gay relationship is far too difficult in that time era. 

My favorite part of the fiction packet were the Mystery Stories because they were a collaboration of small poems that left you hanging at the end of each. They all have a setting that they create and are very visual for the reader. The first short story about the cat shaking hands with the women was very creative and left the audience believing that it was only a dream or possibly just made up. The short stories in the fiction packet were attention catcher most definitely and created pictures inside of my head. I enjoyed the stories for the most part I just wish they would have been more clear and understanding.