HUD HUDSON
This week she has been reading David Maine's
Fallen.
"In the meantime there is the day to enjoy, even as the
seductive
whisper of his plan brushes against his mind. Abel
follows Cain across the meadow,
making for the river. Black and orange butterflies
swarm across the sky,
willows bend pale blue over the river's edge, yellow sun
burns over it all like a benediction. Clouds?
Maybe some other day. Dragonflies hover like
weightless jewels while swarms of vermilion birds swoop to
devour them. A breath of wind lingers soft against his
flesh like a kiss, like a lover, only he's never known a lover.
Maybe soon, though. Maybe one with almond eyes and
hair to her waist and a clavicle that throws puddles
of shadow across her chest. Abel shivers and says,
'It's a great day to be alive.'"
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Xerxes' Sophomore Year
Last week Xerxes was reading Stephenie Meyers's
Twilight and New Moon
The week before Xerxes was reading Gordy Slack's The Battle
Over the Meaning of Everything
The week before Xerxes was reading Nicole Krauss's The
History of Love
The week before Xerxes was reading Wallace Stevens's Thirteen
Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
The week before Xerxes was reading The Dalai Lama's An Open
Heart
The week before Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's
Henry IV, Part II
The week before Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Henry
IV, Part I
The week before Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's As You
Like It
The week before Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's
Antony and Cleopatra
The week before Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's
Macbeth
The week before Xerxes was reading Jelaluddin Rumi's The
Essential Rumi
The week before Xerxes was reading Harold Bloom's Where Shall
Wisdom Be Found?
The week before Xerxes was reading Anne Fadiman's The Spirit
Catches You and You Fall Down
The week before Xerxes was reading Leo Tolstoy's The Devil
The week before Xerxes was reading Colin McGinn's Shakespeare's
Philosophy
The week before Xerxes was reading Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild
The week before Xerxes was reading Stephen Greenblatt's Will in
the World
The week before Xerxes was reading Martin Buber's I and Thou,
Meetings, and The Way of Man
Xerxes' Freshman Year
The week before Xerxes was reading Allan Chinen's
Once Upon a Midlife
The week before Xerxes was reading G.K. Chesterton's
St Francis of Assisi
The week before Xerxes was
reading Jean Toomer's
Cane
The week before Xerxes was reading
Ikhwān al-Safā's
The Animals' Lawsuit against Humanity
The week before Xerxes was reading Patrick Süskind’s Perfume
The week before Xerxes was reading Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the
Snark
The week before Xerxes was reading John Milton's Paradise Regained
The week before Xerxes was reading Dylan Thomas's The Force that
Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
The week before Xerxes was reading Stephen Crane's The Blue Hotel
The week before Xerxes was reading Gore Vidal's Creation
The week before Xerxes was reading A.S. Byatt's Possession
The week before Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce
The week before Xerxes was reading Mitch Albom's The Five People You
Meet in Heaven
The week before Xerxes was reading Dennis Potter's Blackeyes
The week before Xerxes was reading David Suzuki and Wayne Grady's
Tree: A Life Story
The week before Xerxes was reading James Hogg's Confessions of a
Justified Sinner
The week before Xerxes was reading Alexander Theroux's Theroux
Metaphrastes
The week before Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Titus Alone
The week before Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast
The week before Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Titus
Groan
The week before Xerxes was reading Walter de la Mare's
The Three Royal Monkeys
The week before Xerxes was reading John Collier's His Monkey Wife
The week before Xerxes was reading Lois Lowry's The Giver
The week before Xerxes was reading Rudyard Kipling's Mandalay
The week before Xerxes was reading Ralph Helfer's Modoc
The week before Xerxes was reading Stuart McLean's Home
From the Vinyl Cafe
The week before Xerxes was reading Ossie Davis's Purlie Victorious
The week before Xerxes was reading George MacDonald's The Portent
The week before Xerxes was reading Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz &
Guildenstern are Dead
The week before Xerxes was reading Michael Phillips's George MacDonald
- A Biography
The week before Xerxes was reading Christopher Moore's The Stupidest
Angel
The week before Xerxes was reading Gordon Lightfoot's Minstrel of the
Dawn
The week before Xerxes was reading Sun Tzu's The Art of War
The week before Xerxes was reading Robert Graves's I Claudius
The week before Xerxes was reading Philip Ardagh's A House Called
Awful End
The week before Xerxes was reading John Milton's Paradise Lost
The week before Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Mr Pye
The week before Xerxes was reading J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows
The week before Xerxes was reading Riff Raff and Magenta's The Time
Warp
The week before Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Timon of
Athens
The week before Xerxes was reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion
The week before Xerxes was reading e.e. cummings's anyone lived in a
pretty how town
The week before Xerxes was reading Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici
The week before Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's A Preface to Paradise
Lost
The week before Xerxes was reading Stephanie Plowman's The Road
to Sardis
The week before Xerxes was reading Alexander Theroux's Darconville's
Cat
The week before Xerxes was reading Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective
The week before Xerxes was reading T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock
The week before Xerxes was reading Matthew Scully's Dominion
The week before Xerxes was reading Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian
Gray
The week before Xerxes was reading the Prologue in Heaven from
Goethe's Faust
The week before Xerxes was reading Christina Rossetti's Goblin
Market
