NEW review by Kelly Davio of Pygmy (Palahniuk)
Fall 2009 residency schedule now available on the Whidbey Island Writer’s Association website. Click here.
Congratulations to Tanaz Bhathena for winning the June 2009 Student Choice Contest with her short fiction “An Afternoon at Chop-Chop Square.”
The executioner stifles a yawn and shuffles to the centre of the mosque’s deserted parking lot. His rubber slippers slap the tarmac with each tread and his mouth quivers, as if invaded by a swarm of invisible dancing ticks. He longs for a cup of tea, for the strong, soothing burst of tannin on his tongue, but it will have to wait until after the executions, when the owners of nearby tea-shops roll up their doors to do business after Friday prayers. [READ MORE ...]
