It is the kind of day farmers, when there were still farmers, would have dreamed of. The sky is brilliant blue, the plants are newly green, the air fresh and clean as though it had been washed, tumbled dry and neatly folded the night before. It is the kind of day you never forget.
“Hasn’t been a day this pretty since the day you were born,” Mary Grace Mahon says to her granddaughter.
“You didn’t know me the day I was born,” Ruby says.
“Oh but I did,” Mary Grace says, tucking a bobby pin further into her hair which is white and silky and braided like a pretzel.
“Not possible,” the girl says, twirling her own black silky hair into a grandmother pretzel.
“In my heart of hearts I knew you’d be here soon,” Mary Grace says.
“I was born in China , Grandma. The people in China didn’t even know when I was born and when I was born mama didn’t even know she was going to adopt a baby.”
“I knew,” Mary Grace says, “I knew it all along, even before your mother was born, I knew that you’d be coming along.”
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 One Story is a non-profit literary magazine that features one great short story mailed to subscribers every three weeks. Our mission is to save the short story by publishing in a friendly format that allows readers to experience each story as a stand-alone work of art and a simple form of entertainment. One Story is designed to fit into your purse or pocket, and into your life. Because we like a challenge we will publish each writer one time only. This prevents us from relying on a stable of writers and helps us find new and exciting voices. Between September and June, all writers can submit their work. Since launching in 2002 we have grown to have over 7500 subscribers. Many of the stories we have published have won awards, and many One Story writers have gone on to publish their first (or third, or tenth) books. But what keeps us going is the community we have created. Please join us: subscribe, come to an event, or chat on our blog.
August 30th, 2010 1:19pm by Jennifer Milton
One Story author Ben Greenman (Issue # 113, “The Tremulant”) has published a new collection of stories that has literary critics buzzing. “What He’s Poised To Do” (Harper Perennial) has raked in shining reviews from several publications. The Los Angeles Times calls it “astonishing”; Bookslut proclaims it “a book so beautiful, you’ll feel mysteriously compelled to mail it to a stranger”; and PopMatters writes, “I want to run out onto the balcony of my apartment and yell from there how snazzerific, how terrificadelic, how ubertastic this book is.”
Finally, The Millions notes, “After reading What He’s Poised To Do, it’s almost baffling that Ben Greenman isn’t a full-fledged star…he exhibits such compelling mastery over the form and engages readers with compact, electrifying prose.” To read the rest of this review, visit their webpage.
Or, alternatively, you can read the stories yourself and see what has the critics raving! To learn more about Greenman or to share your own comments about his book, contact Gregory Henry at Harper Perennial.
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