Fiction
… dolphin tails were horizontal, not upright; they were mammals, not fish. She returned the pen. I said thank you. On … to reach me. I wrote down the phone number for my hostel’s common room. He took me back to the receptionist and told … to a different room or left the university or maybe even died. In her place came a new girl. I had hardly seen the …
Essays
… and some brief responses (my own, not Sizemore’s—and not composed with any input from him). I would provide a … gospel just doesn’t make sense to me. On Robertson’s own website, you can read him explaining: “If you just, number … For a heartbreakingly intimate portrait of this, read Zadie Smith’s two-part report from Liberia ( here and here ), …
… from atop the great stone heaps I now called home. The medieval world that was the campus would have stretched the … trees and shrubs where one grand house after another competed tastefully for attention. I had never lived among … of ritual to understand its value. The ceremony had its points, especially the gown. It saved on laundry, and I came …
… him as an “apothecary’s clerk”—too much of a boy to become involved in an extramarital scandal. Yet others—Sigmund … and his friend Mary Alien Hulbert in New York. The author also notes that during a period of almost eight years, while … the epitome of a national self-image. And what Weinstein points out to be the remarkable and unique character traits …
Fiction
… But the fingers were bonier, worn to hooks. “Look,” she commanded, “and tell me where he sets his heart.” Then the … or wish? She was at Huffman Prairie the day her mother died. September, windless. No figures in the field, no Flyer … too, as if to offer a possibility of reprieve. And so was also hopeful. And so when, high above the Colorado Plateau a …
… something has spoken in the night; and told me I shall die, I know not where. Losing the earth we know for greater … over me at the water-cooler, looking fierce, his whole face compressed, swaying with hands on his hips. “Look,” he said, … with his teaching and with what he conceived to be the false values of many of his colleagues. Their preciosity, …