Shortly before dawn the bluebottle finally made it through a hole in one of the broken panes. The Misunderstood had a new song and were rehearsing it for the tenth time. In the cellar the mice had found traps to hurl themselves onto. But Greg's face had formed itself into a grin that ...
Maybe, I found myself thinking as I made my way to the end of Time of the Flies, Piñeiro should have done the same: if she didn’t trust her story to raise these questions for us, to stimulate those debates, she could have written a companion essay, or a different work altogether...
A young man that was always cautious with his life ended up dying in the most random way possible, buried by an avalanche.As he died, within his last moments, he heard several mechanical voices resonating inside of his head, and he was granted many wishe
Once per month, I’ll publish an excerpt of one of my novels, and I hope you’ll be intrigued enough to buy the rest of the book. I began this practice in February.Unlike the free fiction I put up every Monday, the novel excerpts will remain on the site. If you want to read the...
–in which unreliability, irony, or narrative distance are easily misunderstood or just rejected: I’m thinking, for example, of the recent decisionto ban the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing”from Canadian radio, or of the “cleaned-up” edition ofHuckleberry Finn. Good thing nobody ...
Oh my God, HRW says the Russians looted firewood! What horrors will follow?!? But in the end there is always the small story, and the big story, often so big it runs over the edges of our monitors so because of its size we don’t see it. We talk about peace, but the only ...
Still, I couldn’t imagine ever wanting to use them myself–not because (and this is about the point in the post where I gave up the last two times, because I felt uneasy about potentially being misunderstood on this point!) I have any objections to them on their own terms, but ...
Gibby's older brothers have already been to war。 One died there。 The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison。 Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a relationship with the young...