One thing I found surprising about Catherine Coan’s short short stories was the variety of voices and writing styles therein. I, on the other hand, seem to write “…all one, ever the same and keep invention in a noted weed…”, if I may quote the English language’s most famous sonneteer. The next surprise came in [...]
Author Archives: Alec Silverman
A Poem By Jeannine Hall Gailey
July 27, 2009 – 7:58 am
Female Comic Book Superheroes are always fighting evil in a thong, pulsing techno soundtrack in the background as their tiny ankles thwack against the bulk of male thugs, They have names like Buffy, Elektra, or Storm but excel in code decryption, Egyptology, and pyrotechnics. They pout when tortured, but always escape just in time, still [...]
Elementary, My Dear Watson
July 20, 2009 – 12:32 pm
I had decided to use the headline either way for this history-making run by Tom Watson at becoming, among other things, the oldest golfer ever to win a major championship. The famous Sherlock Holmes quote was first used to describe Watson’s amazing skill on the links en route to claiming his first British Open Championship [...]

