Created by Samantha Jayne Allen "Life is long. Hard to see a shape or any kind of arc while you're living it." --Next of Kin A newly minted college grad finds herself back in her small hardscrabble hometown of Garnett, Texas, ANNIE McINTYRE is tired of waitressing and a life seemingly going nowhere (career opportunities … Continue reading Annie McIntyre
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“In Love with Raymond Chandler”
By Margaret Atwood I have no business reprinting this, but "In Love with Raymond Chandler,” Canadian author/poet/lforce of nature Margaret Atwood’s peculiar valentine to Raymond Chandler (furniture?) is just too good to let slip by. It was originally collected in Good Bones (1992), an eclectic grab bag of her parables, monologues, snippets, prose poems, reconfigured fairy tales, recipes and … Continue reading “In Love with Raymond Chandler”