Blog Post Oct 26th

One story I would like to talk about is from Wreckage of Reason titled  Ten Birds by Karen Brennan. What first struck me as I was reading this story was the syntax of the story. It was labeled into 10 different parts each describing something different but using similar words. She always refers to the birds in the story as a metaphor for how she is feeling. "Too many birds in the room, now they were beside me flicking their fearthers. I never cared fro their song which was unmelodic but let's face it the birds were a metaphor for the dread I felt" was a line from part 3. In a separate stanza  she writes "I knew the pillow was a metaphor for weariness and the birds seemed to be hiding." She keeps repeating the same items in each stanza. It seems to me that she is dealing with an emotion, maybe a loss of her husband of some sort. But she refers to the man beside lying beside her in a couple stanzas.
The next story I would like to blog about is Cottage Life by Masha Tupitsyn. When I first started to read this story the first like really got me, "I cracked time the same way I cracked you." This first line is a very strong opening line because when you crack someone it usually means they hard to get to know. To me this is about a love story in a cottage. This women then begins to talk about a certain birthmark under her breast that have made her uncomfortable to even think about letting someone see her breasts. "I wanted one lover for life just to avoid  going over the details of the brown thumbprint over and over again." was the line. This man she if with though doesn't even notice it and is in awe at how beautiful this women is. She is also very descriptive when she talks about the cottage she is in using this line "Dust in every place, summer flowers outcasts in a filthy house, pitch black attic room and no air except at night, a blow from the defenseless skylight, along with all bugs wafting through despite the obstruction of obscurity."