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The Webzine of Personal StoriesFri, 10 Jul 2009 19:55:23 +0000
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By: Steve Newton
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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:55:23 +0000http://www.ducts.org/content/years-of-thirst/#comment-622This story is spiked with a lovely,vibrating tension that very few writers can maintain throughout even a story. It floats but it doesn’t coast. It has a rhythm that doesn’t feel forced…it tip toes through the legal, moral, and conflicted emotional minefields without becoming prurient or sacrificing its entertainment value: and after all, isn’t that the job of we who write fiction? The artist Berthe Morisot once said, “My ambition is limited to my desire to capture something transitory, something, the smallest of things.” That’s what this writer did-with economy and carefully reined in understatement. She’s swimming in dangerous waters but if she doesn’t drown, it will have been worth it. That’s why edgy works for me. It’s almost all I do. I want to read more from this quiet force. Nice work.