writing i enjoy 

- A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart 

- Love Notes Drenched In Moonlight; Hints of Future Novels In Letters to Fitzgerald by Dinitia Smith

- Paranoia by Shirley Jackson

- I Know What You Think of Me by Tim Kreider

- The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula Le Guin

- The Orange by Wendy Cope

- What the Living Do by Marie Howe

- Oranges by Jean Little

- Lord of the Rings' uncredited Gimli double did the work, and has the tattoo to prove it by James Grebey

- A Settlement by Mary Oliver

- My Father by Ollie Schminkey

- Night Walk by Franz Wright