Mood board

[yesterdaysprint]

The Evening Sun, Hanover, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1922

[listentothestories]

adoredwords

[bangbangwhoa]

books i’ve read in 2019 » The Secret History by Donna Tartt

“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”

[fuchsiamae]

an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

(I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15

add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed

[repulsion-gel]

The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma'am

[allyitis]

the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”

[fuchsiamae]

wHat did I just put my eyes on

[schrodingers-rufus]

“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury

Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone

[w3rewolf-th3rewolf]

Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

[rebel-against-reality]

“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates

[actuallyapathy]

“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

[asexualzoro]

the lottery by shirley jackson

[eccentwrit]

i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf

[idlewildly]

Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.

[bravinto]

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

[siderealsandman]

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

[insanitysbloomings]

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

[felderwin]

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury 

[was-once-somewhere-else]

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme

[jeaniefranklins]

I read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day” in seventh grade (it wasn’t assigned, I was just going through my textbook for new stuff to read) and as a bullied kid with SAD, it Fucked Me Up.

[sanguinarysanguinity]

An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson

[real-faker]

Eh, this was more like community college, but The Star by Arthur C. Clarke

[scarlettaagni]

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

and this story that I can’t remember the name of and can’t find, though it might be by O. Henry? it’s about a bunch of demons who want to stop Santa Claus from going through with Christmas, and he must travel through the mountains they inhabit to escape their vices? (good christ I can’t remember the name for the life of me)

[ghostloner]

Ok but the laughing man and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger

[nitrosplicer]

The City (195) Ray Bradbury. An intense commentary on colonialism and space exploration. I read it for a sci fi survey class.

Another short story I read in that sci fi class was Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. A commentary on humanity and how human we believe ourselves to be. Also, an interesting commentary on mental health.

In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom, written in 1947 by Ango Sakaguchi. It made my skin crawl the first time I read it.

Also going to recommend For A Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny, a commentary on whether AI can become human in a future without humans: http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt

[cryingalonewithfrankenstein]

whoever posted “The Laughing Man” and “A Good Day For Bananafish” is Correct

[fluffmugger]

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger (I assume you meant Stockton’s The lady or the  tiger?)

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

The Tell-Tale Heart

 The Gift of the Magi

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County

 Thank You Ma'am

The box social 

The Veldt

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Harrison Bergeron

Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

Where are you going and where have you been

The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

The lottery by shirley jackson

The Landlady

The Leader

Ett halvt ark papper.

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

A Sound of Thunder 

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream 

All Summer in a Day 

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

An Ordinary Day with Peanuts

The Star 

Lamb to the Slaughter

The laughing man 

A perfect day for bananafish

The City (link goes to compendium of short stories)

Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin.

In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom 

For A Breath I Tarry 

[the-prince-of-tides]

All of Flannery O'Connor’s shorts.

[thecaffeinebookwarrior-deactiva]

I didn’t read it in a text book, but “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” haunted me for life.

[forthegothicheroine]

The Chaser by John Collier got super under my skin.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Trifles, by Susan Glaspell (a short play, not a story, but still)

[bvkspine]

unnamed plant + good (i hope?) books

[justrunningthroughit]

[Late] 2018 Year in Review

(2012) (2013) (2014) (2015) (2016) (2017)

In 2018 I:

Read 50 books (favorites: Educated, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Metaphysical Club, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Fingersmith)

Celebrated New Years Eve with my two best friends and my beautiful girlfriend.

Spent Valentines Day in PSJ with Hadar (3 plates of pasta and no shame)

Visited Hadar in St. Croix THREE times and saw a part of the United States I never thought I would see in any meaningful way. 

Dropped GK

Hadar surprised me for our anniversary (first anniversary I’ve ever made!!) and we had a beautiful dinner in Appalachicola and a day of boating on Shell Island.

Fell a little in love with North Florida despite myself. Spent evenings in Appalachicola feasting on duck fries, oysters, and cocktails. Brewery hopped in Tallahassee. Hiked sand dunes on Cape San Blas. Spent unbelievable amounts on $5 gin and tonics at Toucans. Drove up to Pcola for “culture” and yuppie food. 

Made some friends for life (I hope) in the Mexico Beach crew. the #toucansfam. Countless nights drinking and laughing and dancing and walking around our beach town.

Attended the Q&D Gala in NYC and relived our secret society glory days. QDs from 1955 till present were there! We took a gays picture! and I got to see so many more people than I even realized!

Graduated from UAMBT, got my wings, and became a 13B

Drove 28 hours in one long weekend to go to DC for a few days. Jazz in the Garden with Caroline and questions to fall in love. French food with Madeleine and Caroline. Catching up with Patrick in his frat boy element. 

Flew to NYC for a weekend wedding of a dear friend. Spent the weekend with my ex and some guys...was anxious that it would be unenjoyable and turned out to be an amazing night of reminiscing and fun and (honestly) love. 

Experienced a major national disaster destroying the home that I love. Turned on the news to shots of my neighborhood flooding with feet of water, my favorite dive bar literally washed away, and the roads I know so well buried in debris.

Returned to the site of the disaster (my house). Experienced the horror of seeing my entire city transformed into something I can only describe as apocalyptic. 

Graduated from SERE. First time sleeping outside, pooping outside, going days without a real meal. First time backpacking, bushwacking, killing an animal, skinning an animal. First time being interrogated, peeing in a bucket, sleeping in a cell. Many more firsts that I can’t put on the internet. What an amazing, hopefully-once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Relied on friends and slept on unexpected couches.

Sold the beloved 2006 Corolla

MOVED MY ASS TO EUROPE ALL ALONE 

Spent a night in Amsterdam with my love

Bought a 21 year old BMW POS and regretted it almost immediately (bring back the Corolla)

First Christmas alone. Was admittedly not great, but ended on a high note-- with cookies and real conversation.

4 Days in Paris with some truly Loyal Hoes. 

1 Day in Brussels with Madeleine...a pigeon in our hotel room (technically in 2019 at 5 am!) 

Spent all of 2018 in a beautiful, loving, mutually supportive and trusting relationship. 

As usual this post has been a exercise in gratitude. I needed it this week because I have been feeling very alone and unsupported. Stuff is hard but I have experienced amazing things this year and made it through some unbelievably hard ones too (SERE, Hurricane Michael)

[justrunningthroughit]

[jonahreenders]

[justrunningthroughit]

My brother gave me this 1904 copy of Virgin Soil for Christmas and I am not so much reading it as devouring it (I.e. smelling the old book smell and mentally criticizing the translation choices) but look how pretty it is !!! !

[russianist]

“The tiny space I occupy is so small compared to the rest of space, where I am not and where things have nothing to do with me; and the amount of time in which I get to live is so insignificant compared to eternity, where I’ve never been and won’t ever be…Yet in this atom, this mathematical point blood circulates, a brain functions and desires something as well…How absurd! What nonsense!”

— Bazarov in Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. Translated by Michael Katz.

[macrolit]

What Men Live By, Leo Tolstoy

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by D.H. Lawrence, Harper Lee, Franz Kafka, George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on April 8, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[starry-eyed-wolfchild]

A town known as the “town of books”, Hay-on-Wye is located on the Welsh / English border in the United Kingdom and is a bibliophile’s sanctuary.

[renissance]

the secret history by donna tartt

[112196355]

[justrunningthroughit]

Yo I’m back!!!! I sprained my ankle playing volleyball 3 weeks ago and have been babying it ever since (aka not running RIP) and today I went out for two miles and it held up!!!! Gotta take it slow but I feel so great to have gotten back out wow

[melodyandviolence]

Moscow, Russia by  goryacheff_k

[asphodelly]

A wonderful city ❤️🏙