Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ sacurrent ’

The Canícula and the Bard. Who would have thought they would make such wonderful bedfellows? Perhaps a touch uncomfortable with each other, hands awkwardly entwined, sweaty and slick. But that’s what makes for interesting reading (who wants to read about those two people sleeping perfectly wrapped up together and carefree?). Send your epiphanies and...
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Test tubes are wonderful things. So much possibility in such a small clear glass vial. But, as is the case here, so much disappointment too. What I find interesting — and this is the point — is the ending. Why does she say what she says? We can certainly understand her decision, though it...
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More of a slice of life than a story, per se, The Man in the Brown Jacket gives us a glimpse into a familial relationship. A little humor and a gnawing sense of something larger (why are they in the hospital anyway? What happened to Michelle?). Still the tension is clear and the characters...
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The fairy tale is a timeless tale. But we love to update, rearrange, reconfigure the familiar to make it new and more applicable, but the beautiful sometimes horrifying center still quivers, groans and blushes (albeit what we consider to be the “center” shifts with time). Johanna DeBiase proves this with intelligence, humor and creative...
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This week we have two from author William Owen. Though they’re quite different on the face of it, the focus on the flow of the language brings them together. The first, Flower Sermons, captures the lilt of two characters while the second, For Gluons and Gravitons catches the musical language right out of composer’s...
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Love: it’s just a fantasy. Of course I don’t believe that but so often we fall in love with fantasy and let life grind away at the difference until it opens up a hole. You’ve got to make sure you wall off that fantasy — wall it off with glass and go ahead and...
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I’ve been calling for six word stories for quite some time. Alas very few have heeded the call. So I’m going to publish the ones that I do have (one from Veronica Salinas and a whole slew from Don Mathis). I’ve included all of Don’s because I think they’re interesting to read together. Some...
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Who hasn’t ratted a sibling out at some point or another (you might not even know that you’ve done it)? You probably don’t even think about it. What’s the psychology behind it, really? To curry favor? Or do we just enjoy getting people in trouble? That feeling of control in a chaotic world. Anyway...
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History, like love, is mysterious. So much of it is about what you put into it yourself. We make up pasts, memories get fuzzy and out of alignment with time. Even pictures tell only a half-truth that can so easily be mislaid with the loss of human connection. And yet we still create stories,...
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Interestingly, Jan of the below just titles the piece Prose Poem. I say interestingly because I wouldn’t consider it a prose poem, really. In many ways it follows the standards of “fiction” insofar as it has character, setting and “plot.” Of course this brings up some interesting questions about the difference between the two...
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So this story was written in a bar. A friend of my brother’s handed it to me and shrugged. He said, “use it if you want, just don’t put my name on it.” There is a lot I like about this. The idea of writing for the sake of writing and not any kind...
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There just aren’t enough good stories out there with leeches in them. I mean leeches are kinda like stories. They settle in and suck bits and pieces of you into them. You become part of the story, one of the integral parts of the stories, the life blood, so to speak, of the story....
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