: About Me

My name is Justin Webb, and I am a 22-year-old freelance writer. Recently I graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia, summa cum laude, with a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.S. in Economics.

I'm strongly passionate about writing and have been since a young age. My work has been published in undergraduate philosophy journals, THE TRIDENT, and THE CRIMSON REVIEW.

My passion is ...

The arts. All of them.

I know too much about ...

nothing. You never stop learning.

My parents always told me ...

to keep my goals and strive for nothing but excellence.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a NY Yankees baseball player.

My favorite memory ...

pulling my grandma's fake teeth out with toy pliers.. yikes!

Why I write ...

to be heard, and to help other individuals searching for intellectual sustenance.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Pandora's Star/Poker/Ben Folds

My inspiration ...

Those that have come into and out of my life who pushed me to be better than I thought I could be.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Hunger

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"Dunkirk" Off the pier where this makeshift town meets Lake Erie stands an old man tapping on ice. He clicks his heels and dances Dorothy down the frozen coast, dressed in his very best Goodwill flannel; sings The Yellow Rose of Texas in his three-pitch key; warms a can of Hormel Chili with his hands. These hands that at one time murdered—massaged the rifle’s cold steel trigger, its warped and slivered grip. Fired seven rounds into a German boy’s chest and as he watched the tricked kid clutch his breast to stop the lung’s breath and red from leaking, shot one final ...

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