Post Tagged with: "narrative"

“9/11” by Claire Garry, Dublin

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call I find it hard to believe that ten years have passed but for those who lost loved ones, I’m sure it has been a torturous, painfully slow decade to complete. I was in a similar, though smaller building about […]

“9/11” by Kate Wilson, Exeter, UK

“9/11” by Kate Wilson, Exeter, UK

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call When the towers fell, we started falling. It suddenly became alright to suspect someone based on the way they looked. This sort of judgmental behaviour was actively encouraged in fact. All over the world, we were panicked, shaken and […]

“STILL NINE-ELEVEN” by Kelly Kittel, Rhode Island

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Isaiah’s chubby fingers fondled my neck as I strolled along the beach, my almost two-year-old riding behind in his blue backpack. The air suffused our skin with September warmth and the sky blanketed us in blue, the ocean reflecting […]

“Unfamiliar People” by Paul Weidknecht, New Jersey

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Night had fallen on Jersey City by the time my brother and I arrived. We’d driven the seventy miles from northwestern New Jersey, finding ourselves in a city where water utility workers were pressed into service directing traffic while […]

“Sept. 11, 2011” by Allen E. Landver, NYC

“Sept. 11, 2011” by Allen E. Landver, NYC

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call check out Alan’s website! Where was I on Sept 11? How about where wasn’t I? I was not by a typewriter. I was also not someone who claimed, but then stopped. Deserted for convenience. I was also not anywhere […]

“9/11” by Atisha Paulson

“9/11” by Atisha Paulson

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Yesterday was September 11th. I know I was supposed to feel something but all I could think about was how fucked up the world was. It didn’t used to be like this. But it is now. Not to say […]

“TO CONNECT” by KL Frank, Odessa MO

“TO CONNECT” by KL Frank, Odessa MO

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “TO CONNECT”: KL Frank imagines the gray inner life of an office drone who tunes out of the humans around him by day, and tunes into the avatars of Second Life at […]

“brb g2g do stufs irl” by Helen Roberts, Perth, Western Australia

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, said of “brb g2g do stufs irl”: Quick peek into the mind of a rebellious 22-year old cyborg-cybergirl—that is, a woman who can’t stand being offline. When Anne’s mom sends her out on a date, Anne “missed […]

“Déjà Voodoo” by Toby Heaton, Asheville NC

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Deja Voodoo”: Who is Toby Heaton? This is great. This reads like “The Wire,”it reminds me of Richard Price. I love the dialogue here, the characters feel real. There’s a whole lot […]