writer & creator
ROBERT OVERMANN
CREATIVE WRITING
Writing is an art form and a powerful medium for human expression.
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I submitted my short fiction piece "Weather Vane" to Prairie Margins, a national undergraduate literary journal at Bowling Green State University. It was accepted for publication in the November 2014 edition of the journal.
The story is about a rooster named Vane in Alaska, the "land of the midnight sun." When the sun ceases to appear during the winter, Vane becomes worried and goes searching for his friend.
He persuades the town blacksmith to fashion him to the top of his coop. He faithfully braves the elements to watch for the sun's reappearance from atop his perch. The townspeople take notice of his devotion to his friend, and word spreads.
When the sun finally reappears, Vane howls an exuberant "cock-a-doodle-doo," and the townspeople commemorate him with metal likenesses of him atop their buildings, known as "weather vanes."
"Weather Vane"
Prairie Margins
November 2014
Bowling Green, Ohio
"L'espirit de L'escalier"
Windfall
This creative nonfiction work is about my experience traveling to Paris, France.
While there I noticed a stark contrast between the rich and poor. The experience led me to become acutely aware of my own privelege, and I felt a connection with an old, poor, sickly woman who lived on the streets of Paris.
As I ate dinner at a ritzy outdoor restaraunt in Paris, I felt guilt as the old woman walked by. I had seen her previously during the day being harassed by some youths, and I had done nothing to help. As she passed my table at the restaraunt later in the day, I felt disgusted for lavishing myself while she had nothing.
April 2014
Kirksville, Missouri
"Senseless Violence"
Windfall
This poem is about a battle between punctuation and uses wordplay to describe the scene.
It was born out of frustrations as an editor that many individuals do not correctly use punctuation.
However, I chose to do something constructive with my frustations and wrote this poem.
It is humorous, lightheared, and succint; it makes the point that incorrect punctuation often renders a sentence unreadable.
April 2014
Kirksville, Missouri
© 2015 by Robert Overmann
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