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A Continuous Present, Margaret L. Lundberg
A Continuous Present, Margaret L. Lundberg
Margaret Lundberg
The readers of a text are—in many ways—also its authors, with the act of reading creating a dialog between a text already written and a text generated through reader response, creating a community along the boundary between author and reader. To illustrate that boundary, I situated myself—through my research and writing—as a responding audience to nineteenth-century Iowa farm wife Emily Hawley Gillespie, as she is revealed through the pages of her thirty-year diary. Through a constructivist paradigm, the methodology of philosophical hermeneutics, new historicism, and the creative vehicle of fiction, I entered Gillespie’s text to examine the themes which emerged …
Flying Carpets, Hedy Habra
Flying Carpets, Hedy Habra
Hedy Habra
Surveying what appears as familiar ground, Hedy Habra's Flying Carpets plunge deep into the bygone and the irrecoverable. Steeped in childhood memories of Egypt and Lebanon, and intensified in the act of fictional recollection, Habra's stories are at once joyous and tragic, witty and profound. In Habra we have a Shehrazad of our times, not one trying to save her life, but one intent to bring enchantment, gravitas, and sensitivity to ours. This is a book full of marvels, beautifully written. --Khaled Mattawa, author of Amorisco and Tocqueville
Hedy Habra's Flying Carpets is a collection of enchantments and wonders charmingly …
Notes On Narrative, Bryan Furuness
Notes On Narrative, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
"What happened is an anecdote. What someone felt about what happened is a story."
Winesburg, Indiana: Fork River Anthology, Michael Martone, Bryan Furuness
Winesburg, Indiana: Fork River Anthology, Michael Martone, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life’s mysteries, including the zombies in the cafeteria. Winesburg, Indiana, is a town full of stories of plans made and destroyed, of births and unexpected deaths, of remembered pasts and unexplored presents told to the reader by as interesting a cast of characters as one is likely to find …
Second Coming, Bryan Furuness
Second Coming, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
Brian Furuness' contribution to the Fall 2014 volume of Fourteen Hills.
The Lost Episodes Of Revie Bryson, Bryan Furuness
The Lost Episodes Of Revie Bryson, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
Revie Bryson, a precocious and dreamy kid from Paris, Indiana, has decided he's the second coming of Christ. His mother, an inventive storyteller, likes to tell him made-up Bible stories which she claims are "lost episodes" from the King James version. When Revie's mother suffers a crisis of identity and leaves home to pursue her dreams of stardom in Hollywood, Revie must learn to sacrifice and forgive in order to be born again.
Advice Advice, Bryan Furuness
Advice Advice, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
Bryan Furuness on why you should ignore writing advice.
A Vampire Hitman From San Francisco, Joel M. Drotts Esq.
A Vampire Hitman From San Francisco, Joel M. Drotts Esq.
Joel M. Drotts Esq.
Join our main character Joel in one of San Francisco's roughest neighborhoods, where vampires have decided to hide in plain sight. Joel earns his blood is deadly to vampires, as he learns that the Freemasons are also undercover vampire slayers battling an ancient evil who wants to take over mankind!
Man Of Steel, Bryan M. Furuness
Six Crosses, Michael C. Vocino
Six Crosses, Michael C. Vocino
michael c vocino
Brief short story or observation about life in a small southern Italian town.
Excerpts From Two Lists, Bryan M. Furuness
Must Be Nice, Bryan M. Furuness
Excerpts From Books In The Forthcoming "For Geniuses" Series, Robin Black, Gabriel Blackwell, Catherine Brown, Bryan Furuness, Matthew Pitt, Robert Stapleton
Excerpts From Books In The Forthcoming "For Geniuses" Series, Robin Black, Gabriel Blackwell, Catherine Brown, Bryan Furuness, Matthew Pitt, Robert Stapleton
Bryan M. Furuness
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Ten Words You May Want To Strike From Your Manuscript If Reading To Middle-Schoolers, Bryan M. Furuness, Amy Minton
Ten Words You May Want To Strike From Your Manuscript If Reading To Middle-Schoolers, Bryan M. Furuness, Amy Minton
Bryan M. Furuness
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