A mesmerizing single-sitting read if you’re up for it. QUICHOTTE is yet another sample of Rushdie’s prose-magic–or “metaphoric roguery”–a serpentine… Read more FIVE STAR: REVIEW OF SALMAN RUSHDIE’S QUICHOTTE.
Author: Susan Iwanisziw
FIVE STAR: A STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF THE SCI-FI SHORT STORY “STORY OF YOUR LIFE.”
TED CHIANG’s amazing imagination together with his knowledge of math, science, mechanics, and linguistics has gifted us with a volume… Read more FIVE STAR: A STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF THE SCI-FI SHORT STORY “STORY OF YOUR LIFE.”
A TWEET ANTHOLOGY
Collected shorts poetic, dark, eerie, and amazing. See them (with one of mine) at VSS365 Anthology Volume One available on… Read more A TWEET ANTHOLOGY
A FAIRY TALE: THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD
A whimsical and highly anachronistic re-telling of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and the little house that saved them from the stew… Read more A FAIRY TALE: THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD
WARTIME SPARROWS: short story
A post World War II mystery about American servicemen in Great Britain and the suspicious death of a local girl. … Read more WARTIME SPARROWS: short story
THE MANY WAYS OF HEARTBREAK
THE MANY WAYS OF HEARTBREAK turns on a teenage girl’s desperate need to stay in Manhattan and her journey through… Read more THE MANY WAYS OF HEARTBREAK
Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
Classic: Roget’s Thesaurus. Online: powerthesaurus.org Dictionaries: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), especially useful for establishing historical word use Webster’s Encyclopedic… Read more Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
Jonathan Letham: THE FERAL DETECTIVE. A gripping journey, in the company of Phoebe and the feral Detective Charles Heist, into… Read more FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
TWEETS 70+ ’19
Dickens had them all by their twisted metaphors: Oliver alone and hungry but posh enough to know a fish from… Read more TWEETS 70+ ’19
THE DRAGON HARPIST
An upper middle-grade Work-in-Progress in the final stages of editing: A post-Earth fantasy adventure… Read more THE DRAGON HARPIST