by Think In The Morning | Aug 10, 2020 | Words |
Though you hurry away, it’s a brief delay:three scattered handfuls of earth will free you. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) * Horace Cucumber rolled down the steep garden path of John Winthrop’s hillside garden ripping off pieces of his green skin on the sharp...
by Think In The Morning | Aug 10, 2020 | Words |
“Good Gracious!” said Millicent. It was what she always said when she was surprised or shocked. “Look at that blue pig.”Her little brother Franco stood beside their mother dressed in his blue shorts and green shirt. He had on his brown shoes. It was a good thing...
by Think In The Morning | Aug 9, 2020 | Words |
Bebop and Beezie lived in a tree. They were red apples that grew up together from the time they were tiny buds. You might think it would be fun to grow up in a tree, or maybe you think it would not be fun at all. Whatever you think, Bebop and Beezie had no choice....
by Think In The Morning | May 22, 2020 | Words |
It is the autumn of 1918 and a world war and an influenza epidemic rage outside the isolated utopian logging community of Commonwealth, Wash. In an eerily familiar climate of fear, rumor and patriotic hysteria, the town enacts a strict quarantine, posting guards at...
by Think In The Morning | May 17, 2020 | Words |
Think in the Morning continues our look into the literary memories of the 1918 Pandemic. Our first read was Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Katherine Anne Porter gave us an unforgettable memory of the impact of the Spanish flu and the Great War on a young couple whose paths...
by Think In The Morning | May 14, 2020 | Words |
Previously on Think in the MorningPale Horse, Pale Rider: Katherine Anne Porter’s Classic Story of the 1918 PandemicWilliam Maxwell’s They Came Like SwallowsThe 1918 Pandemic And Willa Cather’s One Of Ours Then, under the terrible light which fell directly and...
