November 2009
10 posts
Accident →
It’s rare a piece written in second person works. Most of the time it’s awkward, or cluttered, and more often than not, we’d prefer authors avoid it all together. Dave Eggers is a rare exception with his (very) short story, Accident.
Eggers uses second person (addressing the reader as “you”) as a way of making a simple story— the stress of a car accident, into...
Mother of a Queen
Ernest Hemingway’s short story, ”Mother of a Queen”, centers around a gay man, Paco, who must bury his recently-deceased mother. The narrator, Roger, chides Paco several times to arrange his mother’s burial. Though Paco says he will get to it, he never does, and his mother ends up buried in a common grave.
The salient title, “Mother of a Queen,” reflects the...
The Dawkins Delusion
To preface this story, you must understand about a week ago, I was the biggest Richard Dawkins fan. His wonderfully comical and simple explanations of the conflict of religion and science were so intriguing and fun to read. I devoured his books one by one starting at The Selfish Gene and continuing on to Unweaving the Rainbow and The Greatest Show on Earth. My insatiable appetite for any...
Short Stories Thus Far
Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver. Rating of 5 stars. Tags as Dirty Realism, Disturbing, Dead Babies, Fiction.
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Rating of 4 stars. Tags as Archaic, Disturbing, Dark, Fiction, Morbid.
Preface of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Rating of 3.5 stars. Tags as Controversial, Atheism, Argumentative.
Powder by Tobias Wolff. Rating of 3.75 stars. Tags as...
