by Sara Burdette in Walter Spara Awards
"You have to understand, Sara. Women are mean". A supervisor once said this when I learned of a co-worker's gossip about me. Her advice was to just remember that all women are mean, to everyone, and to not take it too hard. I don't necessarily agree with the statement, but I was reminded of it when I read Alice Munro's 1974 short story "How I Met My Husband" because of the underlying tension and eventual conflict among the female characters.
A print by Jerry Uelsmann
by Ashley Massie in Walter Spara Awards
I have been to India many times in my mind.
This time would be no different- same warm, spiced air,
same cool, dim water seeping its way through the jungle.
Settling on the wooden floor of my makeshift raft,
I resign myself to float where the subtle currents wish.
by Julia Taylor in Walter Spara Awards
Though modern cinema and celebrity gossip are easy scapegoats for the wrath of the objectified woman, most women fail to realize that they too contribute to the distorted female image. In fact, it is often our mothers that first expose us to such anti-feminist theory-not with blatant propaganda or conservative conditioning, but through the seemingly innocuous vector of the bedtime story.
by Brittany Stainrod in Walter Spara Awards
The stories of vampires have been around for ages, from Dracula and Dark-Hunters to Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory. All of these stories have one thing in common- vampires were undiagnosed diabetics. These ailing monsters are described as having pale eternal skin, elongated canines, and blood-shot eyes.
