Story Scene -- "Why Not?"
Reasons, I had come to realize, have polarity, like electricity. There is a "why" pole and a "why not" pole, and they are quite proper opposites. The "why" pole attracts, providing you with reasons that tell you to do something, to make something...
Natural Habitat Interviews 4: Caedmon
Good evening; I'm James Lipton, and I'm privileged to bring to you five of the most interesting persons it's ever been my pleasure to interview. To begin with, I need to explain that what you're about to read concerns the discovery of a home, a house,...
Natural Habitat Interviews 1: Lightfoot
Good evening; I'm James Lipton, and I'm privileged to bring to you five of the most interesting persons it's ever been my pleasure to interview. To begin with, I need to explain that what you're about to read concerns the discovery of a home, a house,...
Associated Student Bodies -- Tiger By the Tail
------------------------------------------------- # Tiger By the Tail ## Winter 1999-2000 ## "Hey, Danny!" Daniel King paused in his walk down the hall of Hillard 2-E, grinning at the deer who waved him toward his room. "What's going on,...
Associated Student Bodies -- Don't Cry
---------------------------------------------------- # Don't Cry # _June 1999_ Tina sighed, trying one more time to get into the infamous "Benjy Section" of Faulkner's _The Sound and the Fury,_ wondering why in hell American literature...
Associated Student Bodies -- Do No Harm
# Do No Harm ## November 2003 "Another drink, sir?" Steven Paris shifted his tired gaze from the airplane window to look at the stewardess. The tigress might have been his own age, and in another time and place, he would have been much more...
The Lion Has Landed
Not many people can say that perhaps the most romantic night of their courtship started out at a dance recital. I hope you'll bear with me, because this tale will take far longer in the telling than in the performance. It's something that I feel I...
An Offer You Oughtn't Refuse
It was a cool mid-autumn morning when I answered the knock at my door to find a tall, huge, broad-shouldered, solidly-built, cerulean-furred lion filling the entryway, his lavish indigo mane swept back in a jaunty manner. His maroon and gold athletic...
The Subject Under Discussion
# The Subject Under Discussion If science ever does figure out how time actually works, I would be willing to wager that it will stem in part from discovering how placing the words "look" and "out" in close proximity seems to have an effect on that...
Natural Habitat Interviews 3: Sheila
Good evening; I'm James Lipton, and I'm privileged to bring to you five of the most interesting persons it's ever been my pleasure to interview. To begin with, I need to explain that what you're about to read concerns the discovery of a home, a house,...
Natural Habitat Interviews 2: Jybian
Good evening; I'm James Lipton, and I'm privileged to bring to you five of the most interesting persons it's ever been my pleasure to interview. To begin with, I need to explain that what you're about to read concerns the discovery of a home, a house,...
Character Vignette -- Once, With Another Woman...
What follows is one of my writing warm-up exercises, sparked the line in the title. The lady in question discovered something important about classical music... and other interpretive aspects of life... * * * My mother always said that I was a silly...