Fictionaut Faves, 3/15

The story I picked is "The Snowbank" by Shelagh Power-Chopra and the very concept--taken from a life event Shelagh read about evidently--is exquisite: a man finds himself stuck in a snowbank. [Read more]

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1. Today…
2. Drew DeGennaro

   published LIVING IN THE NORTH NEAR FARGO.
3. Sean Carman

   updated his profile.
4. Michael Dickes

   faved the story The Birds.
5. Michael Dickes

   commented on The Birds

   Perfect and simple. Just how I like 'em. Thanks for the story, Jack!

6. Thierry Brunet

   commented on Confessions of an I.R.A. Terrorist (March Paddywacker Challenge)

   Guinness is just fine. The best in the world. (The civilized one, that is.)(If such a world really exists.) Blimey!

7. Sam Rasnake

   commented on On the Nature of War and the Rumors of War

   I appreciate your comment on this poem, Ramon. Hearing a reader say "a voice with authenticity" is special. Couldn't ask for more than that. Thanks for reading this piece.

8. j. h. woodyatt

   commented on The Nutty Professor

   Ouch. I don't think this got transcoded properly before appearing here.

9. Sam Rasnake

   faved the story The Birds.
10. Sam Rasnake

    commented on The Birds

    Jack - this captures the feeling after watching that film. Very unsettling, and that comes through. It’s and underrated film - and its impact on viewers and filmmakers persists. Three birds or...

11. Thierry Brunet

    commented on Another Big Dumb Object

    Swell. Reminds me of Brazil: "sign here please... and here's your receipt for my receipt!"

12. Sam Rasnake

    commented on A Certainty and Not the Poem I Meant to Write

    Thanks for the comment & the read, Julie. I appreciate it.

13. Susan Gibb

    commented on Of Rainbows and Pots

    Hah--Irish (Scot, really) by marriage only--totally Polish on my own. Thanks for the read and the lovely comment.

14. Michael Dickes

    commented on Shallow Grave

    Very well done Julie. Peculiar insight, which I respect. talking about something completely different. Forty years of marriage had honed this skill.

15. Susan Gibb

    faved the story The Birds.
16. Ramon Collins

    is now a member of LITSNACK, an on-line literary journal.
17. Jack Swenson

    wrote on Julie Innis's wall.

    Julie, Thanks for the kind words about "The Birds." Glad you liked it.

18. Greg Gerke

    commented on The Lute Music CD

    Thanks Christian!

19. Ramon Collins

    updated his profile.
20. Shelagh Power-Chopra

    wrote on David Ackley's wall.

    Ha! Very good. Or a blurb beneath one of those silly public naked people "Art" projects: "They were naked and they were rowdy and the streets couldn't hold them. It was a performance piece g...

21. Ramon Collins

    commented on On the Nature of War and the Rumors of War

    I'm just beginning to study poetry an this is an excellent lesson. I doubt that I can ever come up to your level: ". . . the whales crying—hurt, alone—whales who no longer hear the music . . ." A v...

22. Marcelle Heath

    wrote on A. Pseudonym's wall.

    Hi A.! Thanks for the note and welcome back to Fnaut :)

23. Julie Innis

    added Meakin Armstrong as a contact.
24. Julie Innis

    commented on One of Four

    you've created this moment with care and intention - vry impressed by the depth through detail.

25. Ramon Collins

    commented on Of Rainbows and Pots

    No fair! Gibb is a fine ol' Arsh name -- that gives you the edge on leprechauns. Although ". . . her best friend claimed he was only a midget." For me, a great title and opening sentence always re...

26. Julie Innis

    wrote on Michelle Elvy, and Sheldon Lee Compton's wall.

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