There’s violence, all right. But instead of a real gun, these moms try to win a battle using an actual toy gun. (The scene is a pastiche from the famousThelma & Louiseinciting incident.)A subsequent gun scene turns into dark comedy when another mom means only to threaten, but ends u...
“The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith” —As far as open endings go, this one is about as open as it gets. Shirley Jackson withholds the reveal. All we know is this: A middle-aged woman has always lived at home, caring for her father. Then her father died. One week ago she remarried. T...
then, in the sort of coincidence that works will in comedy, the very same people from whom Toad stole the car in the first place notice a poor old washerwoman slumped in a heap on the side of the road and offer to give her a lift. ...
Wink(the reader knows this exact scenario will play out twice) (For more on the Battle sequence and the forms it tends to take in picture books, see my post onBattles in Storytelling.) ANAGNORISIS “Really, I had no idea!” The comedic thing about this particular Anagnorisis: Pigeon is ...