This is part 3 of my fictional story “When Now is Gone.” Read part 1 here and part 2 here.
I wanted to tell Cash about Fadi, about Italian soccer, and how when the rain fell in slants I thought of him, but he had hit a homerun that afternoon and I knew he’d want to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘fiction’
November 17, 2008
When Now is Gone 03
November 15, 2008
When Now is Gone 02
This is part 2 of my fictional story “When Now is Gone”. Read part 1 here.
My father taught math and typing in high school. I never witnessed him using a computer. The school knew about his college career as a four-sport athlete, but mother was sick and it wasn’t until after she died that he [...]
November 13, 2008
When Now is Gone 01
I was encouraged by a few people to share some of my fiction. I don’t know if people read fiction on blogs. This will be in four or five parts.
I sat next to him and noticed a sudden serenity on his face as he asked for a light. The cold made it difficult to pull [...]
October 15, 2008
Moralism in Christian Fiction
The fantasy author L.B. Graham has a short blog (here) about Moralism in fiction and what makes Christian fiction. I’ll have my own response to it, but not right now. In the meantime you should read it.
September 20, 2008
Indignation by Philip Roth
Indignation by Philip Roth is set in the early 50’s with the Korean War waging across the sea and the threat of the draft looming over young men like Marcus Messner, the son of the kosher-buthcher in Newark, New Jersey, who attends the city college across town and plays on the baseball team and works [...]
September 17, 2008
Elsewhere, Perhaps by Amoz Oz
Amoz Oz wrote Elsewhere, Perhaps when he was 27. It was his second novel. Set in the fictional town of Metsudat Ram, an Israeli Kibbutz, in a valley near a disputed border. If the desert heat doesn’t threaten their way of life than the enemies in the mountains do. The people of the kibbutz believe [...]
July 21, 2008
This is Madness
One of my favorite parts of the movie 300 is at the beginning when the Persian messenger rides into Sparta asking for “Earth and water,” representing their submission to the god-king Xerxes. When Leonidas pulls a sword on the messenger, the Persian yells, “This is madness,” to which Leonidas states, “This is Sparta!” and then [...]
July 19, 2008
For Writers, Readers, and Everyone Else Saturday Edition
• Secrets of book publishing from some guy who self published (here).
• 3 marketing tips for authors and bloggers from an expert. (here)
• Advice for book authors from Seth Godin (here).
• Choose your own adventure books are making a come back (here). I guess I started the trend here and here.
• The Relief crew wrote an interesting blog [...]
July 18, 2008
Friday is For Writers, Readers, and Everyone Else
• How having a blog can be a dangerous thing (here).
• A list of fictional movies referred to in Seinfeld. (here via kottke)
• Even England is being swept up by The Shack’s success, reports the Guardian.
• Here are some stories and poems from PEN’s annual Prison Writing Competition.
• The US just named a new Poet Laureate. (here and [...]
