Author Archives: otis shaw

About otis shaw

Studied at Edinburgh Napier University and gained my honours certificate in English and Journalism. I have continued my quest for knowledge at Stevenson College where I am learning Spanish and in the summer hope to acheive the CELTA teaching English certificate. Currently working with Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group, publishing with SchNEWS and Freedom Press, blogging at an alarming rate and have just returned from another visit to Spain where I was part of the first encampment of Indignados in Plaza Catalunya, Barcelona, 2011. After my studies I hope to continue working with the indigenous peoples of Chiapas, Mexico or North Africa and give them the voice they need through my journalism.

Memoirs of a Gaijin

Posted on January 22, 2012

Christmas Eve in 2008, was a mild introduction to a Japanese winter in the mountains of Iwate. I had no idea how cold it can get here and how much snow can fall in two days. Living on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Christmas Eve, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Mother Nature, New Year, scotland, Snow | 2 Comments

Slow Life

Posted on November 1, 2011

Crimson red blood soaked into the bedsheet like a paper coffee filter. His body twitched as his nervous system sent out distress signals to the brain. The severed artery continued to pump oxygenated blood from the heart to the forearm. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Benedictine Monks, Catholic Schools, Creative Writing, edinburgh, Expressionism, France, Glasgow, Holi, Laphroig, Les Gorges de l'Herault, Livingston, Newcastle Brown, Otis Shaw, Pont Du Diable, Rajasthan, River Herault, stream of consciousness, The Arabian Sea, The Balmoral Hotel | Leave a comment

Reanimation

Posted on September 24, 2011

Originally written in November 2009 by Otis Shaw for Media, Culture and Literary Studies ( Edinburgh Napier University). My heart was beating furiously, my lungs filled with air for the first time. I sprang to my feet, like a hunted animal, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Animal laboratories, Creative Writing, Culture and Literary Studies, Frankenstein, Media, Reanimation, The Human Sciences | 1 Comment

Paisley Pattern

Posted on April 1, 2010

Siobhan knew that changes were happening. Changes in her body and changes in the way her mother’s boyfriends looked at her. In a way she wanted to hold onto her innocence. Every month since she turned fifteen she was reminded … Continue reading →

Posted in Bashabi Fraser, Fiction, Undergraduate Creative Writing | Tagged Buckfast, Creative Writing, Fiction, Paisley, Realism | Leave a comment

Holiday in Cambodia

Posted on February 3, 2010

Creative Writing Monday 24 April 1975 The army have surrounded the streets of Phnom Penh. The city has been thrown into complete chaos. City workers, cars, bicycles, traders, military, monks, young and old, have headed south, out of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bashabi Fraser, Fiction | Tagged Angkor Regime, Avalokiteshvara, Buddhist, Cambodia, Capitalism, Creative Writing, Fiction, Kampuchea, Khmer Rouge, Lon Nol, Phnom Penh, Refugees, Siem Reap, South East Asia, The Mekhong River | 1 Comment

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  - The Souvenir
- 25liannechristie
  - Defamiliarisation of an object
  - mirror exercise
  - The Lost Journal of J.M. Barrie
  - Bedroom, window and street.
  - Cafe
- aakuluk
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- ablyjyn
  - Kilby
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- agnesco
  - the photo memory
  - Oldies Photo
- agruber87
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- alansicmoto
  - A Storm Beneath the Clouds
- alexcurrie
  - Sun Trap (room/window/street)
  - The Daughter Complex. (girl)
- alexhaylock
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- AliceChalder
  - A Reaction to Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’ (from the Romantic and the Gothic lecture)
- andrewgavinjack
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- andrewmcarthur35
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- andycross54
  - Cafe
  - Bedroom Description
- Skipper
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- Antonia Landi
  - A hot summer day
- aroy3
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- Ashlie Skye Watt
  - View from the Window.
  - Bedroom Description.
  - Café.
  - ‘Girl’
- Ayesha
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- bashabifraser
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- beattie2
  - Haiku
  - Dressing Up
- becerrabm
  - A screaming comes across the sky.
- beigetam
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- bena983
  - mirror
  - Me in third person.
  - Awkward domestic atmosphere (followed by awkward silence!)
  - Girl (‘s night out?)
  - People.
- bethany87
  - genres
- Billie
  - Nine One One
  - Where the Cows Go to Heaven (Boy)
- blairmcnally
  - No posts
- bobthebaker
  - The Ogere of Winston Primary
  - Ballad of Biff the Dog
- bryaniekane
  - No posts
- caledoniajade1
  - Alone
- cammaquist
  - Writing exercise
- carolinef2
  - Poem from the point of view of a kite
  - 3rd Person Perspective of Myself
  - 1st Person Perspective of Someone You Know
  - Observations To and From University
  - Story Based on Defamiliarisation Activity
- scienceofdeduction
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- cbemaule
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- celticvicky1989
  - Lindsays answers! But is it her?
  - Look in the mirror what does it show you?
  - In someones head (their thoughts) My Boyfriend James.
  - Trip from Uni (Kerrys words)
  - Trip to Uni (Kerrys Words)
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- chloethomson
  - Cloister Cemetery in the Snow
- chrisjpbyrne
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- chrissy54
  - Glamour and Grunge
  - Cafe Culture
  - Things I See
  - Girl…
- connorgd
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- costellomagick
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- CraigieW
  - Not Another Fluff Piece
  - Cafe Exercise – Same Space, Different Planets
- aNonEyedMouse
  - I try to Quit
  - J’Attendrai Le Suivant
- spare the time to write
  - Social behavior and individual cognition
- daniiallen
  - Moi
  - Arthur’s Seat
  - Bus Journeys
  - The Sock Puppet
  - Bedroom, Window, Street.
- davebmackay
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- declankeen
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- dezzie00
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- dickj91
  - Writing About the Familiar
  - Café People
  - Fitba
- dixonr73
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- donnafoulis
  - My first attempt at a poem
  - There was a boy
  - Coffee shop inhabitants
  - A day in the life of…
- dontknowwhatimdoin
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- dougswalker
  - Bloodbuzz
  - One Fine Day
  - Bedroom – Window – Street
- dove1986
  - .carry a poem.
  - un café con inspiración
  - Girl…
- edinburghnapiernews
  - The Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition
  - To A Moth
  - Raven In Winter
  - Richard Holloway, Mary Loudon and Mona Siddiqui are having a Much Bigger Conversation
  - Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition
- Eilidh McCartney
  - in someone elses shoes
- elinronja
  - an honest verse of longing or a simple song of hope
- emmabrown111
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- eprasher
  - Mirror
  - Cafe People
  - Room/View/Street
  - Boy
- erinsheepie
  - What If…
  - Growing up
- errish3
  - Mother and child
  - The Strand
  - Poem- Picture of Edinburgh
  - Suitcase
  - Bedroom/Window/Street
- Today I don't like...
  - The Violin City
  - Parisque
  - View.
  - Boy
- falserodhull
  - Beginnings
- fayegirvan
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- fdmonofre
  - Group poem
  - Biker in Cafe
- Sarah
  - Genres
- fishfulthinker
  - Stories
  - Success in Haiku
  - Failures in Haiku
  - Between the sheets
  - About Our Mice
- floravision
  - No posts
- fortunesfool73
  - Upon Reflection (First creative writing assignment)
  - The Rescue (Gothic piece)
  - Biography piece.
  - How quick, the end.
  - Childhood memories.
- francine91
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- gailpickering
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- geebus20
  - through the window on to the street
  - the bedroom bit
- georginawilde
  - Tea
- gillianhoban
  - Class and Region
  - A creative beginning…
  - Genre – Romance
  - Genres
- gracie2211
  - To Disappear…
- greg303
  - they are here again.
- hamishwilson
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- handbagaddict
  - Highland Memories
  - Girl
  - Cafe-Observations
  - Bedroom window-view-street
  - Bedroom
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- isiach
  - MOMENTS OF TRUTH
  - Dos & don’ts – BOY
- isthatsmoothjazz
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- jamielivingstone
  - Between Breaths
  - The Best of a Bad Bunch of Swimmers
- Jamie
  - Bathgate.
  - Boy.
- jeddancer
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- jennapenner
  - White Suitcase?
  - Ask 10 random questions and write something around the answers
  - Various attempts at self-description in the third person
  - Carry A Poem
  - Journies
- jennieladd
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- jessicarodgers
  - Shane Dobbie
  - Nathalie Weidhase
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- joestonecypher
  - The Little Man and the Ladies
  - Hunting for Change
  - Eyes Looking Back
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- J W Devoy
  - The Greatest Battle Ever Told
  - The Best Thing That Could’ve Happend
  - When the Bow Breaks
- katgower
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- kathleen09
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- Kerry Davidson
  - Mirror Image (3rd Person)
  - Defamiliarization (Based on a friend’s words)
  - Daydreaming (In the mind of someone I know rather well)
  - (Fat) Girl
  - Bedroom…View…Street Level
- kevgriff85
  - Lewis Docherty
  - John Evans
  - Antonia Landi
  - The Editorial Board
  - Erin MacAlpine
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- kirsty bruce
  - Your Shadow
- kjdoig
  - 2339
- klodya
  - A Conversational Poem Between The Forth & Clyde
  - Bus Journey
  - Le Chat Noir – Defamiliarisation
  - Three Characters in a Cafe
  - Bedroom, Window, Street
- kschaiff1023
  - Carry a Poem
  - Photo Frame
  - Cafe
  - Girl – Hunting
  - Computer
- kyriestuij
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- ladyemodude23
  - The Girl Who Waits
  - His Last Journey
  - Imagism Exercise
  - Rosie and Jim
  - Betty
- Stuart MacBeath
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- lauravab
  - One in Fishmarket.
  - everyday journey to Uni
  - Gothic descripton.
- laurenkatehannah
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- lb81
  - Another Person’s Thoughts (colleague)
  - Mirror Exercise
  - Journey to and from Uni
  - Concussion
  - Bedroom, View, Street
- lewiscampbell
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- Liam
  - Anniversary of the End of Days
- liketocook
  - Edinburgh
- ljmcphee
  - The Crossing
  - Family Portrait
- lmcgirk
  - Girl
  - Cafe people
  - Bedroom, View, Street.
- louismoorehead
  - Keats Verse
  - What Dylan said
- lukebaker2
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- maddak
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- magzclark
  - How Deep is Your Love?
- Marika Loughlin
  - A Canteen Man
- outatthepictures
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- melaniekr
  - Acid
- meowx1337
  - Occupational Hazards
- FrancisWhitman
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- midas31862
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- mikeepeters
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- molethrower
  - Girl/Boy – Famous
  - Bedroom/Window/Street Descriptions
  - Café Stories
- murray88
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- nargislalee
  - A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
  - New York. New York.
- natepennyshow
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- neaengstrom
  - Angular haircuts
  - Cyberpunk (tutorial task for week 4)
  - Genres (for tutorial week 4)
- neilbrogan
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- newton37
  - The open front door
- olivergrahamyooll
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- Liv
  - poetry attempt (week 5)
  - childhood (week 4 task)
  - Genres (tutorial task, week 4)
  - Horror (tutorial task, week 3)
- onenicegreenleaf
  - Cotton Wool
  - Five Steps
  - Places We Would Never Go
- onlysoonasatsuma
  - Boxing Match In The Commons
- Gary Davidson
  - Webbed Words of Wisdom for the World Wide Weekend, or Whatever
  - Anecdotal Poetry
  - What a rush – Tutorial activity
  - A Brighter Outlook
  - Tutorial Activity (Work in Progress)
- panagiotismanos
  - No posts
- Andrew Redmond Barr
  - Human Factory
  - Pictish Stone
- patersonwrites
  - Myth (Girl)
  - Cafe Predator
- Pj O Reilly
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- rachelbroadfoot
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- rachellewebdill
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- Keith Baxter
  - Hello Genres, may I list you?
  - 455
- rcam222
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- redsuede
  - The Hoarder
  - People-watching
- rmp447
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- Robyn
  - People Watching
  - Journey
  - What if…
  - Hair Cut
- rose2505
  - Existing in the Moment
- rossjackthelad
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- rtyoung1
  - Severance, optimism. (Poem) – Ross Young
  - Arranging a Confession
  - Ross Young
- ruaridhmiller
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- sarawasson
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- scottanthony1967
  - Room/Window/Street
- scotte123
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- seano0o
  - Dark or Light?
- seumidhmacdonald
  - A Horrible Tale in which a Dog and a Child Die (Gothic Exercise)
  - The Big Man from the Coffee Shop
- Shiny09
  - Incarceration
  - Generations
  - Cages
  - Words
  - City Streets and Liquid Roads – Continued
- otis shaw
  - Memoirs of a Gaijin
  - Slow Life
  - Reanimation
  - Paisley Pattern
  - Holiday in Cambodia
- signeccentric
  - Child’s rhyme
  - 10-02-11
- siriuslysmart
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- Sarah
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- smilingpencil
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- Sonia Charlotta Reini
  - Jerusalem
- Sophie C
  - A Lone Magpie
  - The Hospital – (just something random)
- startclock
  - Old Man at Sea
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- tchepelina
  - Bedroom/View/Garden
  - Girl
- teddyboyy
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- thecanyonbehindher
  - A Midnight Murder
  - Invictus
- The Daily Fail
  - Synoxypathos (short poem with examples of synaesthetic metaphors, oxymorons and pathetic fallacy)
  - Self-description Mirror exercise
  - The Word at War (from Rhyme Well exercise, which is ironic because it doesn’t)
  - Bedroom, Window, Street
  - Cafe Surveillance
- thenightofthewilddonkeys
  - Noble Phantasm
  - Perfect Skies, Chapter 1
- theweegie
  - Paranoid Android.
  - Shameless Plug?
  - Genre or something like it.
  - Trike extraordinaire.
- tonygougeon
  - Chain of Memories
  - week 3
- vickireed2290
  - Beginnings
- vveronikal
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- whitelightwhiteheat68
  - The Naming Ritual
  - Window View From A Room
  - A Room
  - Defamiliarisation (of a personal object)
  - A Girl
- whitmanmk
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