Author Archives: Susan

STORIES: Mrs. Farley’s Mind

Posted on January 5, 2006 by Susan

Mrs. Farley caught the tip of shadow in the corner of her eye.  It disappeared before she had the key completely turned in the lock of her kitchen door.  She took a deep breath and let it out as a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Next Up

Posted on January 5, 2006 by Susan

For my next read in the short story path of my journey I will be reading what is tentatively titled "Murphy’s Sampler."  Unpublished–as yet.  The author is one of our Narratives members who writes exceptionally well in style and voice, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Middle-Age in America

Posted on January 4, 2006 by Susan

"Do you have a pill-cutter," the man asks.  His dark eyes are sad, hopelessness hidden within the fierce determination of his stare. "Yes," she says, and finds it, the red one that her father used to use to multiply her … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Resolutions

Posted on January 4, 2006 by Susan

Never made them; not as a point of fact dependent on a calendar at least.  I am weak beneath my strength, tumors grow and punch the armor leaving bumps and boils that in my ignorance I feel invisible. Dragging into … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Weather

Posted on January 3, 2006 by Susan

Nice safe topic:  It’s snowing.  Looks to be  eight to ten inches–which doubles already the forecast.  I have to go to the dentist’s at 2:00 p.m.  If I’m plowed out, if he is open, if I feel like walking the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Hypertext – Take #2

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Susan

I don’t often read my own posts after they’re written…oh all right, if I thought they were particularly eloquent I might, but do check when I wonder if I’ve made sense or if a comment draws my attention back to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: 2006

Posted on January 1, 2006 by Susan

Cold grey first of January sky, night’s fresh snow already muddied to a sandy brown, belies the promise born of only hope refashioned from despair; that lives and turns of luck are cyclic to rotation of the earth.  That challenges … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Hypertext

Posted on January 1, 2006 by Susan

Feels strange and yet so normal, working on a project that makes tomorrow appear a deadline and makes me hope for snow. Just the skeleton of this, the Poetics/Cannery Row essay, would be better and more easily planned out perhaps … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: New Year Blessings

Posted on January 1, 2006 by Susan

Wishing you all a New Year of hope, good health, and happiness that grows and extends past its boundaries. Continue reading →

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REALITY: The Law

Posted on December 31, 2005 by Susan

So I’m sitting here reading Aristotle and Steinbeck and watching "Down to Earth" with Chris Rock and you know how some of those commercials come on and are repeated all night?  Well I just saw one that caught my eye … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Climax

Posted on December 30, 2005 by Susan

For almost two years now I’ve been searching for a climax, a major trauma plopped into the orderly lives of a seemingly perfect family kept orderly by a guilt-ridden and overachieving mother.  It has to be more than what I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Point of View

Posted on December 30, 2005 by Susan

I’ve heard it said that there seems to be an extraordinary amount of first person POV fiction written these days.  I’ve heard students in writing classes say that first person is the easiest to write.  Personally, it took a while … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Overwriting

Posted on December 29, 2005 by Susan

Shoot.  I think I had it and now I’m wrecking it.  I need to turn ruthless and slash my way through, so for now, Big Tim Dawson is off the platter of Spinning and and I’ll do some severe workshopping-style … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: A Journey

Posted on December 29, 2005 by Susan

Both my reading and writing habits started out under the horror genre, after the first Nancy Drew Mysteries and the Hardy Boys, that is, which immediately followed the Golden Books, Aesop’s Fables, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and some poetry books that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Fiddling

Posted on December 28, 2005 by Susan

I’ve got to keep my hands off Tim Dawson.  I’ve been playing with him for about a month and his story’s been cut, changed, but is now growing into long story format at close to 5,000 words.  I keep thinking … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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