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Who Understands Me But Me Jimmy Santiago Baca They turn the water off, so I live without water, they build walls higher, so I live without treetops, they paint the windows black, so I live without sunshine, they lock my cage, so I live without going anywhere, they take each last tear I have, I live without tears, they take my heart and rip it open, I live without heart, they take my life and crush it, so I live without a future, they say I am beastly and fiendish, so I have no friends, they stop up each hope, so I have no passage out of hell, they give me pain, so I live with pain, they give me hate, so I live with my hate, they

So you may have heard of National Novel Writing month, in which the goal is to write 50,000 words of your own original story. You may not have heard of GothNoWriMo, writing a Gothic novel (of your own length) in the month of October. I'm going to try for 30,000 words (minimum, up to about 2600 now!) of my first ever piece of Gothic writing. For those of you who don't know "Gothic" literature doesn't mean you're wearing spikes and black and lots of make-up. It's a genre-Edgar Allen Poe wrote Gothic literature.  Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, The Phantom of the Opera, are all examples. Now, beca

are the phrases. Here are a few tops: Excuses: I was kidnapped by aliens. What year is it? Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est? I did call. Maybe your answering machine is broken. Sane ego te vocavi. Forsitan capedictum tuum desit. Baby, Sweetheart, would I lie to you? Amicule, deliciae, num is sum qui mentiar tibi? Insults: In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags. Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem. I think some people in togas are plotting against me. Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare. May barbarians invade your perso