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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

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

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

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

Bryan M. Furuness

Brian Furuness' contribution to the Fall 2014 volume of Fourteen Hills.

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

Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan Furuness on why you should ignore writing advice.

Creative Work, Annadora Khan

Annadora Y Khan

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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

Bryan M. Furuness

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Six Crosses, Michael C. Vocino

michael c vocino

Brief short story or observation about life in a small southern Italian town.

Bryan Furuness Is Writing An Essay On Facebook Status Updates, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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Love And Mono, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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Bryan Furuness Is Writing An Essay On Facebook Status Updates, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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Love And Mono, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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Portrait Of Lucifer As A Young Man, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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Excerpts From Two Lists, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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Must Be Nice, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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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

Bryan M. Furuness

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My Dolly, Derek Nikitas

Derek Nikitas

It was high time for me to fetch frozen Dolly from the butcher shop, but even in an ambulance the drive was rough, it being the Apocalypse out. This girl was too young to be called Dolly, just a teenager, but I named her Dolly because I liked the Golden Oldies, grassroots sheen of it. See, Dolly was dead, and along with the rest of her scrubbed memory, she lost what ever dull moniker her parents had imposed on her. It would be a new dawn for Dolly when I came to her rescue.

All Nite Video, Derek Nikitas

Derek Nikitas

Show & Tell features two types of writing: published creative works and essays on how to create them. The book is divided into fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry sections, each of which presents three essays addressing a distinct element of craft in that genre. The essays reflect how their authors approach matters such as character development, setting, research, and the music of poetry in their own work. New to this edition is the appendix, “As If by Magic: Tools & Tips,” including essays on grammar, revision, and the art of editing. At the behest of teachers and readers, we’ve also …

The Long Division, Derek Nikitas

Derek Nikitas

An Atlanta housecleaner flees her nowhere life to reunite with the son she gave up for adoption. The teenage boy joins his longlost mother on an unlawful road trip that proves how much they both have to lose by finding each other. Elsewhere, a deputy must track down the shooter in a drug-related double murder before other investigators discover the deputy’s illicit ties to the case. The killer is an unbalanced college kid hunted by vengeful drug dealers and the police, haunted by loves both dead and for bidden. When the renegade mother and son arrive, past sins and present …

Runaway, Derek Nikitas

Derek Nikitas

Sixteen shades of noir, all interesting, some compelling.Three of Child’s contributors—Ken Bruen, Allison Brennan and Duane Swierczynski—are seasoned pros, but the collection’s gems come from the 13 members of the younger set. Derek Nikitas’s “Runaway,” for instance, is a superbly ambiguous chiller about an adolescent girl who may or may not be a real runaway, or for that matter real. In Toni McGee Causey’s artfully composed “A Failure to Communicate” introduces the indomitable and irresistible Bobbie Faye Sumrall, a steel magnolia whose steel will cause three lowlifes to rue the day they took her hostage. “Perfect Gentleman” by Brett Battles …