Friday Fiction
Friday Fiction: A Writing Doppelganger?
Barack Obama & Ilham Anas Do you know what a doppelganger is? I didn’t – that is, until an episode of How I Met Your Mother defined the word for me. According to American Heritage Dictionary, however, a doppelganger is…
Friday Fiction: You’re So Vein
I am not a vampire expert, but I feel reasonably well-versed on the literary phenomenon of blood-suckers and eternity seekers. It began with a late Saturday night reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which my college roommate interrupted by coming home…
Friday Fiction: 4 Reasons Why Book Trumps Movie
You’ve been waiting for this moment for months! You have purchased your ticket, bought your popcorn, found a seat in the exact center of the theater, and made it through twenty minutes of previews. The film begins. Two hours later,…
Friday Fiction: How Many Pages to the Tootsie Roll Center?
I was one of those honor roll high school students who read every book assigned in English class. Recommend a good book to me, and I’m all over it! I fondly recall reading classics like To Kill a Mockingbird…
Friday Fiction: Firecracker Duds
So what’s that one book that everyone raved about, that you spent $20 on the hardcover to purchase or twelve weeks on the library waiting list to receive, that you opened with excited anticipation… only to finish and wonder what…