February, 2009Archive for

Real Presence

"Lead us not into..." Willie think 'bout temptation till his mind go blank Replaced with action and boldness to act. Thoughts wither like corn in a Texas drought. "Listen real hard you can hear da corn grow," His daddy say one summer in Indiana. But that was twenty years, two thousand miles, Thirty degrees ago, an' now Texas Gonna burn a hole in 'is soul. 'Turn dis soul ta bread. It might be useful. Ain't fit ta e'en put butter on now. Feed the body. Starve the soul. "Willie, maybe the body ...

St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Karen Russell's story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girl's Raised by Wolves is, as the title implies, filled with stories imbued with the fantastic. Each story draws upon myth and mystery, but in a way that aims to lay bare very human obsessions. There is a girl tracking her possessed sister through a swamp, a young boy traveling Westward in a wagon train whose father happens to be a minotaur, a boy who sings down an avalanche as part of an ancient tribal ritual, and the lead story about a gr...

WordPress Upgrade

Hurrah! I have upgraded to WordPress 2.7 . I've also installed WP2.7 on my local machine with the help of XAMPP and intend to build my own theme as soon as time is available...which is rarely. I'm tired of the damned red, white, and blue.