Scoots Pitiful and the Mystery at Green Gables (Short Story) - 6/28/2016 4:58:51 AM
As an adult, I found the reading in the beginning to be a bit uninteresting, but I can see where this might be quite delightful for a child. You are most creative and I have to wonder if you dreamed this while taking a catnap. ;-) Hence the twist at the end… A nice touch. I like the naming, too. Scoots Pitiful matched his behavior perfectly.
Very well written as well. inviting children to read good books.
Ron
It's Not Just Literature (Article) - 6/30/2016 6:20:44 AM
I would call them "classics." Those great books that have stood the test of time and have taught us many lessons in life. Yet people devour popular fiction from their favorite current author who usually has a team of writers writing his/her stories from an outline with a rather predictable course of action. I found by reading some of the authors here that great stories are being written that will never see the bestseller lists because they are not part of popular culture. That is really unfortunate.
About the lion, I have to differ. Without looking him up, I don't know who Sam DuBose was. But I will say that the lion, and I haven't looked the name up either, was a symbol for the fact that, at the current rate, all lions in the wild will be destroyed in 20 years. In spite of our continually killing of ourselves in mass quantities, the human population from genius to ignorant, has grown to over 7 billion people. The literary story of our time is how to preserve our ecosystem that supports us with this glut of humanity that is greedily dirtying and eating our own nest.
That's why nonfiction like A Silent Spring is important reading, as well as fictional stories of our relationship with our environment. James Patterson's Zoo does a terrible disservice to our relationship with animals.
Ron
It's Not Just Literature (Article) - 6/29/2016 11:56:54 PM
I've always preferred literary over popular fiction, and feel this manifests itself in my major pieces. The genre, as you stated so eloquently throughout your article, blurs those lines of distinction and forces one to confront the uncomfortable rather than circumvent them.
