http://www.thewindjammer.com/smfs/newsletter/html/by_subject.html
There is a column called "Ask Jiro" by "our own" Jiro Kimura
- it
addresses queries on short mystery stories. There is also an
article by
"our own" Dan Sontup.
But maybe you all know about it already. If so, to the
wastebasket. I'm
back to Cormac McCarthy's spellbinding western, "Blood
Meridian", a book
that, if possible, I am finding even better the second time
around.
Here's the first paragraph:
"See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and
ragged linen
shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned
fields with
rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few
last wolves.
His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water
but in truth
his father has been a schoolmaster. He lies in drink, he
quotes from
poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by the fire
and watches
him."
I hope that this hybridous stowaway message passes Bill's
test of
hardboiled appositeness; but aren't many westerns
hardboiled?
Best regards,
Mario Taboada
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