Q. D. Purdu's BLOG

WHERE WE BELONG by Emily Griffin

"While we wait for our wine, I stall, avoiding the wooly mammoth in the room..."

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LAY DEATH AT HER DOOR by Elizabeth Buhmann

     "In 1986, a man was murdered.  I was beaten and raped. The ensuing trial dominated local headlines until my eyewitness testimony sent a man named Jules Jefferson to prison for life. 

     I lied."

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WHEN YOU MAKE IT HOME by Claire Ashby

“The pills were taking his pain, and they were taking him with it.” 

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BACKSEAT SAINTS by Joshilyn Jackson

"It was an airport gypsy who told me that I had to kill my husband....she was only giving voice to a thinking I'd been trying not to know for a long, long time."

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DEEPER by Robin York

"Bridget talks like a faucet. She's either off or on."

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POLARITY IN MOTION by Brenda Vicars "How much easier here to be the victim than the one who did the crime."

 

THE HEALING by Jonathan Odell

"The experience earlier at the quarters had been so foreign and fragile, it had already dissolved like sugar in tea."

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"Bearded Oaks" by Robert Penn Warren

"We live in time so little time, / And we learn all so painfully, / That we could use this hour's term / To practice for eternity."

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THE TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare

"No prisons are more confining than those that we know not we are in."

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PAINT IT BLACK by Janet Fitch

"He believed in a true world. A world behind this one, that shines through it like a candle through a lampshade."​

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SALVATION ON SNAKE MOUNTAIN by Dennis Covington

"At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound that even as I begin to speak of it, the hairs on the back of my hand are starting to stand on end." 

 

WARM BODIES by Isaac Marion

"We start to smell the living as we approach a dilapidated apartment building. The smell is not the mush of sweat and skin, it's the effervescence of life energy like the ionized tang of lightening and lavender.  We don't smell it in our noses.  It hits us near our brains like wasabi."

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