Blog Post Oct 19th

For this blog post I will write about is a couple of stories from "Wreckage of Reason" which is a bunch of short stories but together. The first story I will like to write about is New York/LA Whirlwind Romance by Karen Lillis. This is a story of a bunch of different quotes this lady heard walking around and just listening to people conversate. The way she put it together as if this was a man talking to a woman on the phone trying to sleep with her, and be with her, and then it ending up being that the guy just wants to be friends. This is done in two parts. Some lines that I will write are in part 1 he says: "I love talking to you" to "I can't wait to meet you" to "Look, I'll say it. I love you." In part 2 he says ""I'm just ignoring you when you get like that" to "You need to find a man closer to your age" to "The best thing about you coming is I finally cleaned my house" to "Yeah, I'll talk to you sometime." This is very describing of a stereotypical man searching for a women and then backing out of it once he meets her in person.
The next story I would like to write about is Upon finding a Knife by Suki Wessling. This story was very creative where she staring writing about this character named Craig who had a key in his pocket. She interacted herself into this story with the line "The writer decided that it would not hurt to leave the knife in his pocket," and the line "The writer helps Carl off the subway." It's also interesting how she relates this knife in his pocket to a key that is useless. "which the writer finds annoyingly plentiful like locks to which she has no key." This was  a very creative story.