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The Bones Of Erin, Linda Buchanan
The Bones Of Erin, Linda Buchanan
The Mythic Circle
When her shovel hit something hard, Sharon assumed it was just another rock.
Rising In The Night, Ramona M. Czer
Rising In The Night, Ramona M. Czer
The Mythic Circle
When Gina sprang out of bed that night she did it joyfully. Her eyes swept open at once, her legs from the thighs to the toes felt life in them.
The Rescue, Alex Mcgilvery
The Rescue, Alex Mcgilvery
The Mythic Circle
Darla walked down High Street, her heels clicking a rapid beat, her normally pleasant face marred by a frown.
Now I Will Believe That There Are Unicorns, Amy Wolf
Now I Will Believe That There Are Unicorns, Amy Wolf
The Mythic Circle
George R. Erickson hurled the twenty-five-percent cotton fiber paper across the room, visions of following it with his Selectric dancing through his head like sugar plums.
The Seventh Bellkeeper Of Vienna, Dennis Bock
The Seventh Bellkeeper Of Vienna, Dennis Bock
The Mythic Circle
In the silence of his violin days (for he composed very little during that sad time) Mozart slept while he could, at the height of day when all of Vienna was loud and alive with accident and arguments, castrations, rehearsals, fist-fights and anthems.
The Stars Are Caring Travelers, Paul Newman
The Stars Are Caring Travelers, Paul Newman
The Mythic Circle
The day had been a wonderfilled one for all, as the family’s four living generations had been reunited for this holiday spent in the country air at the farm of one of its members.
The Seduction Of Yahu-El Betshintav, David Sparenberg
The Seduction Of Yahu-El Betshintav, David Sparenberg
The Mythic Circle
Recently an angel of heaven descended to earth. She was not one of the fiery seraphim. Nor was she an androgynous angel, an ofan.
The Bike Trail, Jefferson Dukes
The Bike Trail, Jefferson Dukes
The Mythic Circle
They were killing the dogs when I met Kalie.
Dialogue Between The Sun And The Wind, Richard Sharpless
Dialogue Between The Sun And The Wind, Richard Sharpless
The Mythic Circle
What is this tree," said the Wind, "whose leaves are like spines and whose seeds carry two eyes and a mouth?"
The Sorcerer Of Darkstone Tower, Mitchell Diamond
The Sorcerer Of Darkstone Tower, Mitchell Diamond
The Mythic Circle
Being a peasant wasn’t so bad, thought Carik as he walked down a dusty road to the town of Lanthor.
The Break-In, Hal Charles
Passage In The Night, Brian Mason
Passage In The Night, Brian Mason
The Mythic Circle
The fire had gone out and I was unable to get it started again. I had been a Boy Scout and all that, but without dry kindling I could not get more than a few flickers of flame.
A Special Bus, Charles Rampp
A Special Bus, Charles Rampp
The Mythic Circle
Winter was dragging along its weary way toward spring, which seemed far in an indefinite future.
Enforced Adaptation, V. W. Massie
Enforced Adaptation, V. W. Massie
The Mythic Circle
Coryann Sayre woke to blessed silence. Then she remembered; there was cotton in her ears.
The Rune Master, Conda V. Douglas
The Rune Master, Conda V. Douglas
The Mythic Circle
Emerad stood upon the tower, watching the far-off wisps of smoke from the battlefield.
Sun-Time, Suzanne Burgoyne Dieckman
Sun-Time, Suzanne Burgoyne Dieckman
The Mythic Circle
Mryeshta sat on the riverback, watching skyrr birds skim over the water in little leafy boats. The sun sat high in the sky.
Cat's Paw, Amy Wolf
Cat's Paw, Amy Wolf
The Mythic Circle
The frozen expanse of Balion Wood was silent, save for deerskin boots crunching against snow.
The Theft Of The Sun, Douglas A. Rossman
The Theft Of The Sun, Douglas A. Rossman
The Mythic Circle
It is told that when the great skald Dag Ormseeker was but a mere lad, his mother, the swan-maiden Hervor, sent him off to live with her brother, Ragnar Rune-Wise, the fatherless boy having reached an age when he required the kind of training that only a man could provide.
The Light That Was Lorainne, Dan O'Keefe
The Light That Was Lorainne, Dan O'Keefe
The Mythic Circle
One second, I sat alone in my bedroom, in my wheelchair. I stared out the only window at a neighbor across the street mowing her lawn.
Oligarchy And Orature In The Novels Of Nuruddin Farah, Derek Wright
Oligarchy And Orature In The Novels Of Nuruddin Farah, Derek Wright
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In Farah's fiction Somali oral traditions are shown to possess a resilient strength and even a revolutionary vitality. Yet they are not envisaged polemically, as unsullied alternatives and sources of counter-discourse to post-colonial realities: rather, they are shown to be implicated in their evils and corruptions. Faced with a mode of reality built on oral discourse, where the written word is ruthlessly suppressed, written texts either retreat into secret cipher or are themselves infiltrated by the vaporous oral reality of public life and take on selected elements of oral literary conventions: notably, their fluid indeterminacy of meaning and interpretative openness, …
Nadine Gordimer: The White Artist As A Sport Of Nature, Barbara Temple-Thurston
Nadine Gordimer: The White Artist As A Sport Of Nature, Barbara Temple-Thurston
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This article applies principles of new historicism to show that A Sport of Nature can be read as Gordimer's attempt to persuade South African artists to reject mere protest art and to shift art beyond the trap of oppositional forces in South Africa's history today. The text calls instead—via fiction and the imagination—for a new post-apartheid art that will generate creative possibilities for a future South Africa. Gordimer's protagonist, Hillela Capran, is read as a metaphor for the white South African artist who, like Hillela, struggles for an authentic identity and meaningful role in the evolving history of South Africa. …
Feminist Fiction And The Uses Of Memory, Gayle Greene
Feminist Fiction And The Uses Of Memory, Gayle Greene
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
All writers are concerned with memory, since all writing is a remembrance of things past; all writers draw on the past, mine it as a quarry. Memory is especially important to anyone who cares about change, for forgetting dooms us to repetition;and it is of particular importance to feminists.