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Hot Reads Plus

Charlotte Hamrick

Lots of good things to share today that I’ve read and watched over the past week or so. Enjoy! On The Miscreant, a flash fiction by James Claffey “The Air, Fair Crackling”. Also by James on Flash Fiction Chronicles, “Why I Write Flash Fiction”. I like this quote in the piece: “Flash fiction, ultimately, is about finding your form, discovering the right angle with which to cut the diamond into facets, showing a world in a moment.” On Brain Pickings, Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Eulogy to Her Soul Mate”. Photo above of Mary Oliver (b. … Continue reading Hot Reads Plus

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Book Review: Everything I Never Told You

Charlotte Hamrick

“He pushed her in. And then he pulled her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.” And that’s the crux of what I loved about this book –  the differences in the character’s perspectives and how it drove the story. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng is about The Lees, a racially blended family of five living in small town Ohio. The second child, Lydia, ia the undisputed favorite of her parents and this book is about what happens to her, events that influenced it , and its effect on the … Continue reading Book Review: Everything I Never Told You

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Hot Reads

Charlotte Hamrick

  Hot Reads is a feature I published on my now defunct group blog, NOLAFemmes. I’ve decided to continue it here, from time to time, focusing mainly on the great fiction, flash fiction and poetry I read around the web. I love to share good writing! First, here’s a little something-something  I recently wrote: Unwitnessed Intimate flaws abandoned in darkness feed the hungry impulse for feeling less than loved. A strange bed sets a fluid stage, transposing in reflected light, sifting like sand through numbed fingers. ———————– “Unwitnessed” is currently up at Fictionaut where it’s joined by a gaggle of … Continue reading Hot Reads

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I will never,ever,ever

Charlotte Hamrick

have a tidy coffee table like you see in those chichi design magazines. Mine is always covered with books, magazines, DVD’s, CD’s, iPad, journal and, at various times, dog biscuits, remote controls, plates of crumbs and cups of half-finished tea. I love the minimal look of a coffee table with only an object or two but that will never happen here for more than a few minutes when I dust and put things away. I need my books and reading material close by.  The book you see there, “New Orleans Style”, will be reviewed here soon. I hope. I intend.  … Continue reading I will never,ever,ever

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What is most important

Charlotte Hamrick

For my Diego the silent life giver of worlds, what is most important is the nonillusion. morning breaks, the friendly reds, the big blues, hands full of leaves, noisy birds, fingers in the hair, pigeons’ nests a rare understanding of human struggle simplicity of the senseless song the folly of the wind in my heart = don’t let them rhyme girl = sweet xocolatl [chocolate] of ancient Mexico, storm in the blood that comes in through the mouth — convulsion, omen, laughter and sheer teeth needles of pearl, for some gift on a seventh of July, I ask for it, … Continue reading What is most important

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Sunday Sentence

Charlotte Hamrick

“Too many  people have become self-appointed privilege police, patrolling halls of discourse, ready to remind people of their privilege whether those people have denied that privilege or not.” — Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist My contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” Continue reading Sunday Sentence

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Sunday Sentence

Charlotte Hamrick

“His heart was like gristle when she bit down but she just chewed and chewed and didn’t spit it out.” ~   “Put Your Wild Heart Between Her Teeth” From Every Kiss a War by Leesa Cross-Smith My contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” Continue reading Sunday Sentence

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Literary Tattoos

Charlotte Hamrick

I recently discovered Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos, a website that shows literary tattoos people have had inked on their bodies. A tattoo is not something I’m interested in for myself but I do find them interesting and the reasons people get them interesting. I like the one above particularly because it’s from the poem “Antilamentation” by Dorianne Laux, one of my favorite poets and poems. It’s a beautiful  and honest line and a poem all by itself.  I also like the placement of the design because I like the idea of a tattoo being hidden and only revealed to a select … Continue reading Literary Tattoos