Randall watched his father select sugar cubes with engraved Georgian tongs, an heirloom since the days of his great, great, grandmother who had lived in the 1700s. That was the story, anyway. He bristled as the elder Randall dropped three of them, surgically, one at a time, into the teacup, also old, but not Georgian […]
Many years ago I lived across the street from a teenage girl, her adolescent brother and their practically nonexistent mother–all of them rather unfortunate looking except for their magnificent red hair. For the life of me I can’t remember their names… Bobby. The boy’s name was Bobby… They lived in one of the many large […]
Joyce Carol Oates is a big deal among the literary elite. So much so the eighty-six year old author is considered a living legend. Her resume–Professor of Creative Writing, Princeton, over fifty novels published, three of them finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as volumes of poetry, short stories and plays–bespeaks gifted intellect, hard […]
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