Story A Day: “Dead on Her Feet” by Cornell Woolrich
Another story from the Cornell Woolrich collection I started yesterday—this one more of a straight whodunit, but with some grisly imagery and dark flourishes. A cop sent to break up a shady dance contest finds that one of the last contestants is literally… well, see the title above. An investigation follows, but even though the […]
Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:12:58 PM
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Story A Day: “The Night Reveals” by Cornell Woolrich
Just got in the mail the Centipede Press collection Speak to Me of Death: The Collected Short Fiction of Cornell Woolrich, Volume I. We started in the middle of the collection with the story “The Night Reveals” about an insurance investigator who begins to suspect his wife may be a pyromaniac and secret arsonist. While […]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:26:07 PM
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Story A Day: “Hiding” by Frances Badgett
Flash fiction obviously works on the less is more principle—relying on being suggestive rather than exhaustive in its descriptions of characters, plots, etc. “Hiding” by Frances Badgett—the tale of a young girl struggling to keep a box secreted away from her father’s girlfriend—doesn’t entirely explain the relationships and the motives at its core, but what’s […]
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:43:20 PM
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Story A Day: “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”
In addition to reading the complete stories of Stanley Ellin, Tara and I have also been working out way—aloud—through the complete Sherlock Holmes, novels and stories both. We currently have only one book left, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, the final collection of stories, which we finally delved into last night. The first tale, “The […]
Monday, May 20, 2013 3:27:28 PM
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Story A Day: “Jhonathan and the Witchs” by Stephen King
Writer and editor Paul Mandelbaum gathered the childhood writings of 22 distinguished authors—including Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Michael Crichton, Allan Gurganus, Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeleine L’Engle, Joyce Carol Oates, William Styron, John Updike, and Tobias Wolff—for the collection First Words, which is a real hoot for fans of any of the featured writers’ more […]
Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:40:57 PM
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