A story I wrote in Lydia Yuknavitch’s ontologies workshop in May 2017 The hamster runs on the treadmill in her cage, faster and faster. Her body leans into it. She wills the treadmill to take her to a real place, but it doesn’t. It started innocently enough; she thought they had a good relationship until … Continue reading Mother’s rights
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#MeToo…
Scary statistics
Tarana Burke, wearing a ‘me too’ T-shirt, addresses the March to End Rape Culture in Philadelphia in 2014.
I haven’t posted to social media with a personal #MeToo message before now because I didn’t really see the point. I mean, c’mon! Is it still not obvious to everyone that women everywhere are routinely harassed and assaulted?
No? Really? Okay, let’s simplify things and not even talk about women… let’s just talk about girls.
Here are a few things I experienced before I even reached puberty:
- A classmate jammed his hand under my skirt, past my panties and into my vagina.
- I was scared to answer the phone because I received obscene calls a few times a week from an unknown male, who knew my name and what I had worn to school that day.
- A stranger flashed me and offered me money if I would touch his penis.
- I was…
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Novel Transcript Reading: Courage the Mouse, by Cornelia Fick
Performed by Laura Kyswaty
Get to know the writer:
What is your story story about?
Thank you for the opportunity to talk about myself J. This is actually a story about following your destiny.
What genres would you say this story is in?
It’s a children’s story for ages 7-11
How would you describe this story in two words?
Adventure. Playfulness
What movie have you seen the most in your life?
Gone with the wind.
What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
The greatest love by Whitney Houston
Do you have an all-time favorite novel?
Mice and Men, John Steinberg. Recently The almanac of the dead by Leslie Silko
What motivated you to write this story?
I wrote it for my son and added pictures in water colour. The pictures were not very good because I have…
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Mary Oliver: The Artist’s Task
Wonderful essay on creativity
It is a silver morning like any other. I am at my desk. Then the phone rings, or someone raps at the door. I am deep in the machinery of my wits. Reluctantly I rise, I answer the phone or I open the door. And the thought which I had in hand, or almost in hand, is gone. Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once. Privacy, then. A place apart — to pace, to chew pencils, to scribble and erase and scribble again.
But just as often, if not more often, the interruption comes not from another but from the self itself, or some other self within the self, that whistles and pounds upon the door panels and tosses…
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Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers’ Favorite
Eye of a Needle: And Other Stories by Cornelia Fick is a gorgeous collection of short and long stories, each suffused with unique literary elements to entertain readers. The author captures the reality of South Africa in vivid detail, in a voice that is clear and absorbing. In “The Beggar,” the reader meets the “homeless … Continue reading Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers’ Favorite
Being lost
I’m reading Rebecca Solnit’s book, A field guide to getting lost*, and I’m reminded of the recurring dreams I used to have not so long ago. That of being lost in a strange country or place, threatened by unknown ghosts, and out of my mind with panic and fear. When I look back, at the … Continue reading Being lost
Cornelia Smith Fick 