The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
March 2005
Fiction
Conversion in Connecticut
by Martha KingFiction
It was only eleven in the morning, and it was a school day, but there were groups of high school kids at the bay beach. With cans of beer, with tape decks and car radios turned up loud; with pimples on their mouths, and expensive cars, and the drifting intermittent scent of reefer.
Wanna hear my story?
by Martha KingFiction
I come from a long line of bourgeois Americans. All the men were lawyers, landowners, or clergymen. One great uncle was a congressman. All the women were ladies.
Six Fables…
by Martha KingFiction
A writer spins plots in the most condensed forms possible. they are stripped of description and comment; they simply outline a sequence of exchanges. she gradually looses the ability to make herself write them out as stories.
