my name is paul. i'm a writer. i write literary fiction & poems; shorts stories, plays & essays. i live in northeast ohio and my black boots stain a white phantasm from all the salt clearing ice from the roads.
a further exhibit of my writing is at www.myspace.com/tonightthedeadprayforus
My passion is ...
writing
I know too much about ...
nothing
My parents always told me ...
i wrote too much on the walls
My childhood ambition ...
to become a novelist
My favorite memory ...
the one that just happened
Why I write ...
beacuse i'm alive
What I am reading/watching/listening to ...
reading Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark/watching the Browns go 9-5/ listening to Harry Partch
My first job ...
summer slop-worker at Sea World
My best moment ...
is right now
My inspiration ...
to wake alive
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More..Paul Skyrm
Member since: December 2007
Articles Written: 5