You named her: Rashida, after her father, in hopes that this would inspire him to linger. He said he liked the “Shhh!” in the middle: We’ll need that. You laughed, heartened. Maybe a namesake was all it took to tether him.
This laughter came before you knew that he was a spore adrift. Before, you’d felt [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Shhh.
Posted in Fiction, tagged blackouts, drowning, flash fiction, mother-daughter relationships on October 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Remembering Where the Wild Things Are.
Posted in Nonfiction, tagged dave eggers, max records, spike jonze, where the wild things are on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Two seconds into Where the Wild Things Are, I was in love with it. Two minutes into Where the Wild Things Are, it’d reduced me to tears. It didn’t matter how terrible and reckless and awful Max was; I couldn’t shake the overwhelming urge to brush his shaggy bangs from his damp little face. I [...]
In Case You’re Wondering…
Posted in Fiction, Maranatha (novel excerpts) on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know I haven’t been posting new Maranatha chapters. It’s because I haven’t been writing new Maranatha chapters. And that’s because I don’t have any time.
But it’s also because it’s occurred to me, as I’ve gone back through and re-read a few segments, that Chapters 13 and 14 shouldn’t exist.
I definitely don’t think these two [...]
