Sh*t My Russian Wife Says: Diamonds
A grocery errand from his Russian wife becomes a test he is sure he has aced — until he learns, comically and too late, what she never actually asked for.
Author · Poet · Technology founder
Clifford F. Boyle
Pushcart-nominated author and Harvard-educated tech founder (Shazzle, 3 patents) whose screenplay Night Landing was optioned by the Oscar-winning producer of Antonia’s Line.
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In brief
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Screenplay Night Landing optioned by an Academy Award–winning producer (Hans de Weers)
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Pushcart-nominated author who is also a patent-holding technology founder
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Harvard-educated literary voice with a real body of work — essays, poetry, fiction
The work
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Writing
The poetry collection, the novel, the short stories, and the long work still in progress.
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Essays
Essays and poetry, published here first and sent to subscribers of Navigation.
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Film
Night Landing, optioned by the producer of the Academy Award–winning Antonia’s Line.
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Technology
Shazzle, ShazzleChat, and three granted U.S. patents in privacy technology.
The writing came first and remains the center of it.
Recent essays
All essaysToday's Swim
A rough, unpredictable ocean and a mile swim cut short for the first time, set against the sobering news of a champion triathlete who drowned far out of my league.
Today's Lesson
Killing is the most natural thing in the world, so civilization forbids it. A meditation on dominance, mercy, and the justice that holds the line against nature.
Poem
Best Friend
Like every night she steps upon the porch To hear the clack, clack, clack across the floor, An anxious whine, tail thumping like a drum, And then the yelp when she…