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June 2006

Willful Women

Sunday, June 25, 2006

“A woman who thinks too much can become dangerous. She’ll invent things. She’ll plot.”
--Jose Alcantara Almanzar, “My Singular Irene”


Willful women in the American South and South America.


Surprise!

Sunday, June 18, 2006

“’The lions look real, don’t they,’ said George Hadley. ‘I don’t suppose there’s any way that…they could become real?’”
--Ray Bradbury, “The Veldt”


Surprise endings in two American classics, one 20th century, and one 19th.


It Had Wings

Sunday, June 04, 2006

“For most of his life, he hated Sundays, their gnawing stillness, the faint memories of religion. A day loneliness won.”
--Adam Haslett, “Devotion”


Two visitations change lives forever.