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...also enlivens the stories unexpectedly perfect words pop up like Kleenex in the midst of an unremarkable description. We become reacquainted with the "nose" of a pencil, and the "dish rinser" that one uses to "spritz" the dinner plates. We need these sparks of craft because many of these thirteen stories are so brief as to be almost like SAT exercises in creative writing (write a scene between two or three closely related characters, starting in the middle. Be sure to include subtle details to establish time, place, and motivation. Stop after you have finished work on this section...
...language." One humid May morning last year, Moore's husband Reuben, 52, gave Lucas and his companion Freida ("Becky") Powell, Toole's 15-year-old niece, a lift in Montague County, Texas. He offered the couple room and board in exchange for chores around his makeshift church. Thirteen months later, following Lucas' confessions, the remains of Powell and one of Moore's neighbors, Katherine Pearl Rich, 80, were found...
...Iraq bombed several towns in northwestern Iran with Soviet-made fighters and bombers. Civilian casualties were estimated to be in the hundreds. Tehran also charged that Iraq had resorted to chemical warfare for the second time in a month, lobbing artillery shells filled with poison gas at Iranian troops. Thirteen people were said to have been killed and 40 others injured in that attack...
...Thirteen years after Cambridge implemented one of the toughest rent control policies in the state, tenants are dissatisfied. They say the regulations--which monitor the costs to both tenants and landlords in low- to moderate-income housing--have been subverted in two ways: landlords are getting around the restrictions by making unnecessary repairs and then demanding increases to cover them: and relatively affluent people are taking the controlled housing from the low-income tenants who need it more...
...Staten Island by James A. Michener. Thirteen centuries of life and struggle in New York's least-known borough, focusing on the saga of the Ferry family. "Magnificent"-Kirkus Reviews...