Protected: Every Direction Is Home Posted on February 12, 2025February 16, 2025 By Roo There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Read more
Protected: Fixable Posted on February 12, 2025February 12, 2025 By Roo There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Read more
Short Stories The Tricycle Posted on December 17, 2024December 17, 2024 By Roo Even before he gave me the tricycle, I knew how things were going to go. To Rick, life had always been one big joke. For our first anniversary, he took me to his cabin on a lake several miles north of the city, where kids would bike to and fro… Read more
Book Chapters Protected: Maybe I’ve Still Got Time Posted on May 6, 2024February 12, 2025 By Roo There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Read more
Short Stories The Thousand Lives of George Argyris Posted on April 26, 2024September 12, 2024 By Roo It was back in the time before the electric light, when people still walked on air, and the volcanoes spat water instead of fire, and the sparrows pecked at the frozen pigs’ carcasses which lay scattered about outside the entrance to the home of the Professor George Argyris, which stretched,… Read more
Essays A Strange Anointing: Religion in If Beale Street Could Talk Posted on March 30, 2024April 1, 2025 By Roo “He kissed my face…he uncovered my breasts and put his teeth and tongue there and his hands were all over my body…he called me by the thunder in my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed.” –Tish, If Beale Street Could Talk In his 1974 novel, If… Read more
Book Chapters Protected: Someday I’ll Need You Posted on March 18, 2024February 12, 2025 By Roo There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Read more
Book Chapters Oyster Island Chapter 1 Posted on May 1, 2023September 12, 2024 By Roo As I stepped out of the car I couldn’t hear or see anything in the dark night except the faint rustling of leaves high above and the light of my parents’ house up on the ridge. Behind the house to the west, I knew, was a steep dropoff, ending in… Read more
Essays Celestial Bodies and Plato’s Symposium Posted on April 24, 2023September 12, 2024 By Roo “My moon and my sun thou hast quenched for ever.” —James Joyce, Ulysses Jokha Alharthi’s 2010 book, Celestial Bodies, tells the story of three sisters and a host of other characters as they make their way through a cosmic sea of possibility, visualized by the titular “celestial bodies.” The sisters… Read more
Essays The Weakness of Love in Marie de France’s Deus Amanz Posted on April 17, 2023September 12, 2024 By Roo Deus Amanz lives in the same genre as Pyramus and Thisbe, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, as well as William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It is also similar to Chevrefoil in the same collection. It is a story of lovers whose parents interfere with their love, and who end up dying together… Read more