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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy story "Men Have Names" just went online at The Adirondack Review.
Hey, it's a current event!
http://www.theadirondackreview.com/richardmartin.html
F. Kafka
(70 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Congratulations and all that! You totally deserve it!
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)I know it's a long short story.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)malaise
(268,931 posts)Bookmarked
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)redwitch
(14,944 posts)Congratulations!
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)It is amazing to me that writers develop such recognizable styles. I'd have known that this was the creator of Oscar, right off the bat.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)I might have stole that straight from the Oscar.
Cha
(297,154 posts)Congratulations on it being published on The Adirondack Review with The Fulton Prize!
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)I hope it continues to be interesting.
Cha
(297,154 posts)Very unique, well woven story. At times I felt I was in it, thank you!
Good luck to you on finding your publisher for your novels.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Interesting story!
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)I haven't completely figured it out myself.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)Really an entertaining read - just delightful.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)Thanks.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)I'm not sure myself what's going on, or will go on in there.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)ancianita
(36,023 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)I think a kind of beauty is what I was aiming at.
The first two friends who read it, one said it was
the most Christian story he's read (as in Christian
"action," he said) and the other saw it as completely evil
and frightening. I'll take "beautiful" any day.
wellstone dem
(4,460 posts)of a client who was homeless who asked if I was a Christian. I said I was. The client replied, "Not really. If you were Christian you would take me to your home. Since then, I've never forgotten how hard it is to be truly Christina.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)It's not that easy being Christina either!
ancianita
(36,023 posts)through your dialog, and the very same consciousness that the woman's p.o.v. showed...an unspoken knowledge that women and children have of their status (great dialog, that part!) or a kind of self apart from (sometimes outside) the world of men that claims "men have names," the phrase which I was sure the story problem turns on in the Western ego sense of things.
Anyway, not to be all psychodrama about it...your flow was so watery smooth, the dialog was subtle fun, and moving everyone's -- the reader's and all the characters' -- growing awareness such that when the switch happened, I was delighted. The final line was what it was all about. I'm sure that the magazine's audience is one that will very much appreciate your story.
Your story made me wish for such people in the world.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)Warms my heart. I'm glad you got it & enjoyed it. That title was a long time in coming, but when the ex-husband said it, I knew that was it.
ancianita
(36,023 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)which I still like but it's too cold for this story.
wellstone dem
(4,460 posts)Beautifully written, and I had to keep reading. congratulations!
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)& thanks to you and everybody who read it for reading a loooonnnnng story.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)who among us really knows who we are? We should all have a matchbook with a number as a clue. Great story. Like uncle's pet. A mystery of life.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)It ain't easy to just, you know, be.
ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)Now that's a story that lingers with you a while. Congratulations and well done
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)It means a lot.
redwitch
(14,944 posts)I want more though. Next chapter please.
I really do enjoy your writing And I want more Oscar too!
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)You warm my heart & make me smile. Maybe mumble a prayer of some kind for the mixed animal novel getting published.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)And congratulations!
How is Oscar?
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)Thanks, Will.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)for the weekend. And thanks again to all who responded or read.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)I hope you enjoy the unknown man and company.
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Thank you sir.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts). . . ! Glad you enjoyed.