Posts Tagged fiction
My dear Wigglesworm,
It's been sweltering down here in the Lower Regions - you would think you were in the high summer of Boston, but no, it's just hell. Anyhow, outbreaks of gonorrhea and florescent mosquitoes aside, things plod along as usual. But enough about the weather.
I note with some c
06.1.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
My senior year of high school, all the girls were raving about Ben Barnes, the actor who played Prince Caspian. I, not being a fan of long hair, preferred the actor who played Peter. My friends bemoaned, “Of course you would like Peter.” Peter is brave and responsible, but often kind; he is the
04.6.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
It’s always delightful to revisit books from my childhood. There is a security, a wholesomeness, in extremely good children’s books that can be matched by very few other literary works. Recently, I have been reading A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, by Madeleine L’Engle. She was a Chri
01.15.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
She’s a beautiful girl. Red sweater, white shoes, cherub cheeks. Unsmiling eyes. The first time I saw her, I wondered if what George and Nina had said about her was true. That she’d been found on a nameless sidewalk in a blind city, swaddled in red and scraping her tender hands on the rough fibe
11.20.2009| Fiction and Poetry, Volume 5, Issue 1 | Ann Chao
Father Wallace was generally able to keep an open mind when it came to the new members of his parish, so he was surprised by the strength of the dislike he felt when he first met Jordan Sullivan. The feeling wasn't immediate. When Father Wallace first noticed the handsome new face in the congregatio
12.1.2008| Fiction and Poetry, Volume 4, Issue 2 | Eric Lang