Oulipo Stories

Un auteur est mort. Cela aurait pu s'arrêter là, comme un point concluant une phrase. Mais il y avait plus, un truc plus gros, du genre malsain. Pour l'inspecteur Fincher, aucun doute, il s'agit d'un meurtre. Mais qui aurait pu vouloir tuer un écrivain ? Un fan un peu taré, défoncé au sunset ? Non, c'est pire que ça. L'inspecteur devra chercher les indices tracés à l'encre, jusqu'aux tréfonds d'une histoire oubliée. Une étrange prose gardé secrète par des auteurs grandioses et manipulateurs.

All words begin with the letter A.

Hello Reader, Welcome to a collection of open letters (poems?) to whatever has caught my fancy at the time of writing. I'm inspired by anything and everything in this varied world, be it an intense feeling, a stunning drink, or just the unique ambiance of a place. Intrigued? Read on. :) -------------- Highest Rankings #68 Anthology #140 Poet

The Tautogram - Tautogram -- A text whose words, or at least the principal ones, all begin with the same letter. (Oulipo Compendium Page 231) The Lion - Measures -- This term applies to procedures dependent on the length of syllables or words. (Oulipo Compendium Page 185) Poèmes Pour Tigres - BO49 -- François Caradec, Veuillez trouver ci-inclus (Please find enclosed), 1990. (Oulipo Compendium Page 87) Large Carnivorous Animal Of The Cat Tribe - Definitional literature -- Each meaningful word in a text (verb, noun, adjective, adverb) is replaced by its dictionary definition ; each word of the resulting definitions is similarly replaced; and the process is repeated as often as is desired. (Oulipo Compendium Page 134) Snow-tyger - Snowball -- A form of rhopalic verse, this procedure, already practiced in Classical times, requires the first word of a text to have only one letter, the second two, the third three, and so on as far as resourcefulness and inspiration allow. (Oulipo Compendium Page 228) What Happens Next? - Multiple-choice narrative -- … a story whose evolution can be partly determined by the reader … (Oulipo Compendium Page 198) The Tyrant - N+7 -- A method invented Jean Lescure that “consists” (in Queneau’s terse definition) “in replacing each noun (N) with the seventh following it in a dictionary.” (Oulipo Compendium Page 202)

This is a univocalic version of Little Red Riding Hood. The story is pretty much as close to the original as I can get by only using the 'E' vowel!

A poem written to secretly contain the names of other writers,

A composition of ten poems in ten different poetic forms spanning ten different genres. My entry for the Attys Awards! ----------- The poems will not only span different poetic forms but also different genres and phases of life. I have started with a Haiku but I will encapsulate more forms over the next few days.