2004 SFWP Literary Awards Program Prizewinner by J. M. Schuster From the Prologue After six years in the minor leagues, Edward Everett Yates gets called up to the St. Louis Cardinals; in his first appearance, the team inserts him as a pinch hitter for injured Lou Brock in the bottom of the 17th inning of [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2004
Falling Rock by Bethany Harvey
2004 SFWP Literary Awards Program Prizewinner by Bethany Harvey Darcy’s been alone long enough to get good at it. She’s the only woman in her family to have passed twenty-five without being married at least once. Men leave her alone. She figures this has to do with her looks. Darcy is six feet tall, broad-shouldered [...]
Falling Rock, page 2 by Bethany Harvey
At home, Darcy takes off her shoes and socks and empties her pockets of keys and knife and guitar pick and driver’s license in a pile on the floor. The smells of stale smoke and alcohol cling to her clothes and hair. She opens the window, letting in a cold, unsteady breeze. The river goddess [...]
I don’t like Thursdays: Why Thanksgiving is for Turkeys by Amy Czechorosky
by Amy Czechorosky Last weekend the little flyers started coming with my deliveries of the Los Angeles Times. They all say the same thing: ‘There is no Thanksgiving in Tijuana.’ That’s right. ‘There is no Thanksgiving in Tijuana.’ Well, that’s just great. Now not only do I have to feel sad for the people in [...]