Two New Experiences
11 November 2010
Early in 2011 a story of mine titled “Addresses” will appear in a new online literary journal, FoundPress. You can read all about this venture at http://www.foundpress.com/ Imagine, a publication devoted to the short story! Crazy about the short story! Ready to give the short story some respect! And publishing online is a first for me.
I’m looking forward to seeing the cover design for “Addresses” – yes, each story in each quarterly issue will have its own cover. And of course to seeing the story in print. It’s about a young woman in 1960s Vancouver, an era — now almost unimaginable — when a married woman could not even request a tubal ligation unless her age multiplied by the number of her children was equal to or more than 120. Just play around with that math for a while. My protagonist isn’t seeking a tubal, but Julie’s for sure mired in 1960s social expectations for women, including those relating to marital sex and birth control.
The other new experience actually happened ten years ago, but I didn’t know about it till recently. In a book published then and titled O Canada Crosswords! by Kathleen Hamilton, the 1 Across clue in puzzle #40 is She wrote My Father Took A Cake To France. Since I’m a regular crossworder, and once wrote a story featuring twin sisters doing one competitively, to see Flood as part of a puzzle’s solution felt like a special validation! Thanks to Penny Goldsmith for finding this little treat . You can read about Penny’s PovNet work at http://www.povnet.org
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