Catcher in the Rye: Narcissistic rich white frat boy has break down when he realizes the world might not revolve around him. Hires a prostitute but is too disgusted by sex to do anything. Gets beat up by a pimp and feels better. Sneaks into his parent’s apartment at middle of night with creepy incestuous […]
“mariam on horseback” ZJC (2010)
I have been working on my tale of Mariam for almost a year. I am not Armenian and yet the tale starts like many Armenian tales do, “Linum e, chi linum; There was and there was not.” Except I have only glimpses of what I am suppose to say. It is […]
Frustration at history. Frustration
at … so little to work with. The defense
of Van, its fall, where this Armenian
story begins with the Turkish offense
against its citizens. Let us start there.
Women hiding in the dark, listening
to the bombs fall. Our stories of warfare
do not interest me; the massacring
at Van left what? One more war metaphor?
I hate war […]