Teaser Tuesdays

I’d watched Lee and Jason with their hands in each other’s back pockets, like it was just that easy to be a couple, or sending each other little messages with their eyes: You’re so cute, or You make me smile, or I like the way you do that. Or maybe they were saying: Too bad [...]

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The Black-Iron Drum, by Von Carr

For those of you who like your fiction bleak, this week’s story is a real no-hoper.
It’s also available online at Fantasy Magazine.
I’d call this story “mythical,” both in the subject matter it treats and the rhythm in which it is told.
A woman wades through a river of corpses to escape her war-torn province. Safe on [...]

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Lost Story Found

Thanks to a nudge from Robb, I tracked down last week’s missing short story.
It is (drum roll, please)…’A Little Place Off the Edgeware Road’ by Graham Greene. (1939)
A man named Craven is walking the streets of London. He wears a cheap mackintosh. He is seedy and alone. Soldiers and girls pass him on the wet [...]

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Not Happy, Not Sad

Not as gleeful as California, but way happier than you poor Mississippians. We Indiana-anians are pretty much just . I guess there’s a reason it’s called the MIDwest.

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Teaser Tuesdays

I admit, I cheated. I picked a random page twice to get a good one. But I had too. The sentences, most of them, are so short.
I ordered pancakes for Penelope and me. I ordered orange juice and coffee and a side order of toast and hot chocolate and French fries, too, even though I [...]

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The History of the World, by Veronica Chambers

This story is in the collection It’s All Love; Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family & Friends.
The ‘love’ angle is that it roughly parallels three Black couples: 2 in New York & 1 in Chicago. The main character is Panamanian and lives in Brooklyn; she speaks Spanish, dates a gypsy cab driver, and works as [...]

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Teaser Tuesdays

Just heard about this from Lakeside Musing, but it’s hosted by Should Be Reading.
It is a Tuesday and I am reading a book, so here goes:
I even made her a mix tape and left it at the grave. I hope you do not think that makes me weird.
From: the perks of being a wallflower, by [...]

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Snapshot

It’s a gorgeous day.
I’ll be in my windowless office for the next 5 hours, but I got 20 minutes of driving here, and I’m thankful.
I started writing again this morning. It’s a good feeling.
It’s also a mixed feeling: hope, excitement, and fear are the main parts.
This time I’m going to try to remember to enjoy [...]

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Do you know this story?

I was reading John Mutford’s Short Story Monday post over at The Book Mine Set, and because he was reading Graham Greene, it reminded me of a short story I read and really really liked, except I can’t remember what it was called or where I would find it.
It was by Graham Greene (who is [...]

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A Nomad of the Night, by Rupert Holmes

This is the story that caused me to add On A Raven’s Wing to my already overburdened bookshelf. I read a Rupert Holmes novel once before. It was Swing. It had a CD bound into the back cover, with music the author had composed and which was supposed to contain clues to the mystery. This [...]

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