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DS 106 Assignments

A Short Story, Quentin Tarantino Style

This story will be using my noir character (and a few others) whose profile can be found here.

Loving this woman would get me killed. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.

“Marcus,” She said in that beautiful, velvet voice of hers. If only she knew what my …

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Layla Arkwood

She is the Jessica Rabbit of the mob scene. As the daughter of one of the United States’ most notorious crime lords, Layla knows she’s powerful. No one speaks to her father without going through her and she is never easily persuaded. She’s beyond beautiful and she knows that too. …

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Further Noir Reviews

Now that I have a better concept of noir, the stories that I just recently read show several examples of the style.

The Postman Always Rings Twice: From the beginning, the novel has a quick witted, headstrong protagonist named Frank Chambers. He is a drifter who can’t stay in one …

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On The Subject of Noir

Noir is more of a style than a genre. It’s not entirely its own but not entirely something else either. It brings together much darker themes, lighting and characters to portray something all together unique. Usually filled with cynicism, pessimism or casual dark comedy, noir is all its own, spawning …

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On The Subject of Noir

Noir is more of a style than a genre. It’s not entirely its own but not entirely something else either. It brings together much darker themes, lighting and characters to portray something all together unique. Usually filled with cynicism, pessimism or casual dark comedy, noir is all its own, spawning …

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