Penny Dreadful 22: The Aardvark Story |
Sense or Cents-ibility? The Aardvark StoryAfter his release from the hospital, Ricky had a lot of schoolwork to catch up on. Frederick Fortescue stood in front of the class and read his...
Posted by on Sun, 31 May 2009 22:11:00 GMT |
Penny Dreadful 21: Pricked |
"If you prick us, do we not bleed?" Shakespeare in The Merchant of VenicePricked"Don't you want your jello?" Marguerite asked her nephew, Ricky. After his encounter with his adopted brother, Lazarus, ...
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 01:44:00 GMT |
Penny Dreadful 20: Coincidental Contest |
They grow up so quickly... Coincidental Contest Behind one of the large carnival tents, twelve year old Ricky Fortescue watched a clown struggle to remove...
Posted by on Sun, 17 May 2009 21:09:00 GMT |
Penny Dreadful 19: One Family |
The simple need for some kind of ideal world in which fictitious persons play an unhampered part is infinitely deeper and older than the rules of good art, and much more important. G.K. Chesterton, i...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 21:01:00 GMT |
Penny Dreadful 18: Resurrection of Hope |
John 11:1-45 This illness is not to end in death but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it. Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him. Resurrect...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 22:51:00 GMT |
Penny Dreadful 17: Breaking Up |
"Breaking up is hard to do" - Neil Sedaka.Unless you're Gavin. Breaking Up Gavin sat pensively at the kitchen table. Ive done it before, he said to himself. I may get slapped again, but-...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:47:00 GMT |
Penny Dreadful 16: The Affair |
The stuffed lung of the fox twitch and cry LoveAnd the strutting fern lay seeds on the black sill.~Final two lines of the poem "After the Funeral" by Dylan Thomas ...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:37:00 GMT |
Penny Dreadful 15: Loss |
"At least it's not false advertising," Alan Kanevsky, on the penny dreadful. Loss The Fortescues did not take Frederick to his fathers fune...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:01:00 GMT |
Penny Dreadful 14: The Return |
But the average man or boy writes daily in these great gaudy diaries of his soul, which we call Penny Dreadfuls, a plainer and better gospel than any of those iridescent ethical paradoxes that the fas...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:22:00 GMT |
Penny Dreadful 13: Moving In...and On |
"... the old ways of storytelling were being replaced, a carefully nurtured oral tradition making way for more hastily scribbled sheets of paper. But there was also a new faith, not so much the idea t...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:59:00 GMT |
