Tag: Romance
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Fiction: Letting the Cat out of the Bag
William, Lieutenant Fahy and the missionaries head for the San Carlos Indian Reservation but are surprised by a cat. “Hey there, Bill. Are you holding up all right?” Fahy asked every so often as he trotted by on his sturdy mount. William had long since stopped answering. Determined not to fall out before the…
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Fiction: A Lonely Journey
William stood near the Markham quarters, hoping again to catch a glimpse of Thankful. He lit a cigar and took a small sip from his flask. William bathed in nostalgia as the sun came up and the air filled with the sweet sounds of reveille, morning call and stable duty. Screaming children raced out with…
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Fiction: A Secret Meeting
“Thankful’s been very melancholy lately—homesick, I bet,” Mrs. Markham thought out loud after Thankful excused herself. William glared at Lieutenant Fahy, who sipped his drink and ran his fingers over a fine crystal vase on the whatnot in the corner. “I don’t think it helps much that dear Lieutenant Fahy is so eager to…
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Fiction: Whores Have Dreams Too
“What about me? Don’t you care for me?” Ginny’s chin quivered, and she took the bottle from William.
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Who Else Hates Genre Labels?
LITERARY FICTION FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE LITERARY FICTION “There is a stereotype of literary fiction shared by both science fiction readers and non-science fiction readers: that academically-sanctioned, “serious” contemporary fiction is all about dull middle-class people having affairs, and that the writers of this fiction do such things as use a couple hundred pages to…
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Fiction: It’s Better to be Loved
“I was hoping you might like it and marry me,” Fahy said, twisting his mustache between his nervous fingers.
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A Survivalist’s Take on Victorian Etiquette
You may think survivalists are weird, but this guy brings up some interesting points about antibiotics and the decline of manners. What do you think? The Need To Return To Social Manners & Etiquette
Author Adrienne Morris 