A WRITER'S WIT
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call "the breaks." In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.
Countee Cullen
Born May 30, 1903
Ba Ba Ba Boom!
Leslie Herman June 2, 2014, Thomas Pierce, “Ba Baboon”: Brooks, a forty-four-year-old brain injury patient, and his sister Mary break into the house of Wynn, her married boyfriend’s place, to locate sex tapes that Wynn has made of Mary. ¶ Because of Brooks’s brain injury some of the story seems to be told from his stream-of-consciousness point of view, although the author hands Mary the POV in alternating sections to tell about things Brooks might not remember. In any case, they’re hiding from, then running from, Wynn’s guard dogs. After an encounter in which Brooks is bitten by one of the dogs, he learns from a figure hiding under the covers the secret words, Ba Baboon, that will cause the dogs to become docile. ¶ The story begins in a satisfying manner with a proper complication, but somehow the narrative gets lost in the home somewhere, meanders to a point that leaves one wondering what the story is about. An account of brain injuries? What to do when one’s boyfriend makes a secret sex tape of you and you wish to recover the evidence? How to handle vicious dogs? The relationship between the two characters does not seem wholly developed. Pierce’s House of Small Mammals will be out in January.
Leslie Herman, Illustrator
Leslie Herman, Illustrator
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