Feature Recommendation: Douglas Glover’s Numéro Cinq
By the Branta Webcrawler • Aug 31st, 2010 • Category: Feature Post, Goose Lane Authors, Poetry, Short Fiction
Photo by Jonah Glover
Numéro Cinq started January 11, 2010, as…
a reading, discussion and resource site for Douglas Glover‘s current Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing students who are also authors on the blog. It seems to have expanded (be expanding) into something else. Visitors are welcome. Already they form a large part of the community. Please leave comments. Respect the fact that the words herein belong to the people who wrote them.
The name for the blog comes from DG’s short story “The Obituary Writer” in which story the hero, based loosely on the author as a young newspaperman, harasses a distraught neighbour who lives in the apartment across the hall by making loud noises in the night and pretending to be a member of a sinister terrorist group called Numéro Cinq.
You will find some wonderful short fiction, including stories by Goose Lane author Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer…
When Rosa saw him after all those years her first thought was how fleshily ugly Victor had become, and yet, if she was honest to herself, he hadn’t ever been much of a looker. He was a poet. And the second thing she thought was how easy it would have been all those years back to get him in one of his gin sleeps, and suture his mouth tightly shut.
…as well as Branta contributor Michael Bryson…
When I was sixteen, a man spoke to my parents. A week later, he bought me a new set of clothes and I flew with him to California. His name (and I’m not making this up) was Sly. Maybe my story starts with the arrival of Sly. My parents will tell you straight out he’s an evil bastard, which is true enough, but Sly’s character was nothing if not Byzantine. He looked a bit like Santa Claus, an fact he exploited with the young and the old.
There is also Poetry, NonFiction and clever Contests (Aphorism contests, for example). Much to recommend.
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