By Andrea Lara
It’s Throwback Thursday everyone and we’ve got great content to revisit. Sarah Garcia’s “Single’s Ad” was from the December 2013 DIN issue. It supplies the reader with free language and an edge to your average prose work. The writer’s voice is very upbeat and fun with her likes and dislikes turned into a kind of gutsy autobiography. Nonfiction can typically end up being a story of a particular event, but this piece works in a way that simply swirls through the mind. With our Nonfiction editorial board description being based on a “cocoon” and what that can mean, something like “Single’s Ad” could be used as an example of what falls perfectly for what we are looking for. Garcia uses beautiful verses that express humor and spunk such as:
“I like to take mental excursions the way wealthy people might go on trips to Aspen. It's a nice escape, but the knowledge that I have to return to the doldrums of reality constantly mars my treks up the bunny slope. That metaphor didn't quite make it. No time, though. We have to press on; otherwise, how will I endear myself to you?”
From curse words to spitting truths, this piece works well to this day because we are all trapped in similar realms of our own searching for acceptance and it is okay to be true to ourselves. “Single’s Ad” can be used as a reminder to us for that. We have our different interests and they all matter despite what negativity we may feel at times.
Click this link to read the full story: https://web.archive.org/web/20131205185812/http://dinmagazine.nmsu.edu/Issue2/SinglesAd.html
Andrea Lara is an English Creative Writing major who will graduate this fall. She is from Anthony, New Mexico but has also lived in El Paso, Texas for half of her life. She is a writer who explores all different types of creative content and is also one of DiN’s nonfiction editors.
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