Grace Paley is awesome. Alice Walker has written some good ones, too.
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erikaj - Jan 16, 2008 3:30:03 pm PST #3773 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
sarameg - Jan 16, 2008 4:14:08 pm PST #3774 of 10001
sarameg, months like yours are why I'm looking to finally start an emergency fund in my savings account, just in case. I have nightmares about my car blowing up on me, and my cat needing emergency surgery, and losing my job all at once.
I don't have to be a cautionary tale, I can be an inspiration?
(I swear to god, I posted this before, but who the hell knows where?!)
Daisy Jane - Jan 16, 2008 4:25:49 pm PST #3775 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
There was a short story on TAL called "The Underminer" that is one of my favorite things I've ever heard. It's on the The Allure of the Mean Friend show and it's all the dialogue of that passive-agressive, bitchy friend who is all, "Yeah, I'll be making six figures now, but I think it's great that you're not in it for the money."
Jesse - Jan 16, 2008 4:30:27 pm PST #3776 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have some newish collections of short stories that have some good ones, including the 2007 Best Unrequired Reading (or something like that) and a McSweeney's collection of Astonishing Tales (or something like that).
Daisy Jane - Jan 16, 2008 4:31:44 pm PST #3777 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
2007 Best Unrequired Reading
Oh I think I have that from the year before! I got it while visiting with Hec and JZ and Matilda at City Lights!
Jesse - Jan 16, 2008 4:32:51 pm PST #3778 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Gadget_Girl - Jan 16, 2008 4:34:20 pm PST #3779 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
I would much rather be reading short stories right now. Alas, my fate is to be finishing term papers. Gads, these kids can't write! It scares me that they are in 11th grade and are incapable of doing a research project.
Jesse - Jan 16, 2008 4:50:32 pm PST #3780 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey, does anyone here have kids who like Angelina Ballerina? I have no idea if it's even current, but I have this random DVD I got from work that I would send anyone who's interested.
sarameg - Jan 16, 2008 4:51:44 pm PST #3781 of 10001
I just tripped over the cat and bashed my arm but good and smashed a glass.
Am I done? Please?
Jesse - Jan 16, 2008 4:54:35 pm PST #3782 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe take tomorrow off and just sit very still.