Tag Archives: Prairie Schooner

Kind of liked this one: People Always Going To by Lee Martin.  First person narrator, a man who’s just sort of a regular guy, going along with his wife to a seer because she wants to check in on her … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The first–and longest–story in this issue is Wilde in Omaha by Ron Hansen.  Unfortunately, I only got a few pages into it because personally, I don’t like fiction based on reality.  I know, all fiction is based on reality, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Good reading, but nothing very unusual.  One thing that is unusual is that four out of the six stories are written in first person pov, something that many readers simply do not like.  I don’t mind them and enjoy the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, that didn’t work. The plan was to catch up on some of my backlog of lit journals since a) I tend to read all the short stories–there’s usually six of ’em max, and b) the novels I’ve been reading … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, I couldn’t get through all four stories in this Fall 2004 issue (vol. 78, no. 3) and though I still carry the guilt of that, it is in keeping with my new policy of forcing myself to give up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For the first page and a half of this short story by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, we are in the mind (third person omniscient) of a long-married woman who is both watching a fly and thinking about her husband.  While it … Continue reading → Continue reading →