Posted by Lucy A. Snyder | Sep 28, 2017 | Short Fiction
The iron heated quickly, and in a series of motions as artful as any he’d performed on the orchestral podium he pulled it from the fire with one hand, squeezed her forearm hard to force her fingers open with the other, and jabbed the glowing red tip of the poker into her exposed palm.
Read MorePosted by Lucy A. Snyder | Jan 14, 2016 | Nonfiction
In 1975, author Chinua Achebe analyzed Conrad’s portrayal of Africans in the book and accused Conrad and his novel of racism:
Read MorePosted by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 7, 2015 | Nonfiction
Caitlín R. Kiernan’s dark fantasy novel The Drowning Girl: A Memoir and Robert W. Chambers’ supernatural story collection The King in Yellow have several themes in common—ancient malign gods, hauntings, and madness-inducing works of art, for instance—but one of the most interesting is how the two authors handle unreliable narrators.
Read MorePosted by Lucy A. Snyder | Feb 4, 2014 | Short Fiction
I woke in the afternoon gloom to the sound of my 20–year–old stepsister Lily dragging something heavy and wet up the back patio steps through the kitchen door. The smell of blood and brine smothered me the moment I sat up.
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