Reviewed by Dominique Bruno Anne Leigh Parrish’s Our Love Could Light The World introduces us to the Dugans, a family in Upstate New York who seem fated to permanent misfortune. Mrs. Lavinia Dugan, who always assumes “the worst,” goes to work each day to support her five children...
Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, for all its brilliance and light, is essentially a remake of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Each movie give us a beautiful, fragile woman who's fallen on hard times through no fault of her own – but wait, and forgive the...
Author Pam McCaffin offers some comments on her writing life, and her story, "Boundaries," which recently appeared in Eclectica Magazine. Below in her self-interview. Why do you write and what are your goals as an author? Goals? I have only one right now: Finish the novel....
Grant Jarrett's story, "A Perfectly Reasonable Request," appeared in the July 2013 issue of Eclectica Magazine. He was kind enough to share some thoughts about his writing life, and the origins of his story. "The odd, inappropriate comment from a pretty girl in grade school, the...
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of the Yeah Write Review. A copy of the Review may be purchased here. Narrating emotion means making your reader see what a character is feeling without explicitly stating it. If you tell the reader what's going...
Joe Clifford isn't your everyday writer. His stories aren't for quiet family times, with young cheerful faces turned innocently to the light. Nor are they for the faint-of-heart, or those who believe that all human beings basically want to do the right thing. They're for readers...
Kirkus Reviews says of Our Love Could Light The World: "Parrish weaves linked, darkly humorous tales of aging, death, love and alcoholism using the gothic tropes of Southern literary fiction." Clink the link to read the full review. Parrish, Our Love Could Light The World...
Our Love Could Light The World is named as a Finalist in the short story category of the 2013 International Book Awards!...
I love Amazon. I can find any book I want there. I can sell my own works there, too. I can buy so many other things besides books – lap top computers, cameras, shoes, spring and summer dresses. What I can't do is browse, wander,...
Mrs. Dugan came home from work tired. She was often crabby, too. She worked in the sales department for a small company that sold manufactured homes. Her job was to walk clients through their purchase options. The people she dealt with had all fallen on...