Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prefer writing about yourself to digging up the trash of your predecessors, Creative Writing S-20, "Autobiography," may be in store for you. It promises to "explore how details gleaned from both memory and observation can bridge the gap between reality and fiction...
...devotee of reading for pleasure, a dream come true is the Book Case (42 Church St.). A greeting card and poster store sits at street level, but follow the stairs down to the cellar and one will encounter a whole wall of used paperback fiction, and a wide selection of hardcover non-fiction on a variety of subjects. If you look for it, you will find a labyrinthine room in that basement in which the subjects of religion and foreign languages are housed. And if you run out of interests in this part, cross Church St. and go to their...
...about alternative universes? The Science Fantasy Bookstore (8 John F. Kennedy St., second floor) boasts one of the largest stocks of science fiction in New England, both in paperback and hardcover. Rare editions of science fiction abound, as do obscure works by the leading lights in the genre. Wargaming supplies and computer game software are also available here, sold up front with the movie and TV fanzines...
...John F. Kennedy St., in The Garage and at Superhero Universe (1105 Mass. Ave.), a few minutes' walk up Mass. Ave. towards Control Square, Superhero Universe also includes back issues of magazines like Playboy, National Lampoon, and Starlog, as well as all the special publications that herald new science fiction or the latest Lucas-Spielberg epic...
...matter. Neither parable applies to you. You were born a good Samaritan and prodigality has never been one of your problems. Frankly, I do not know a work of moral fiction that could improve your character, for it has always seemed to your mother and me (admittedly prejudiced but not blind) that your character never needed much improving. I have not known anyone more fairminded, more considerate, more able to swallow disappointment. Not from me did you get these things. Why should I expect to give you something special...