Best Of: Fiction

Rearrange the Walls when Necessary

by Jane Devin on 06/14/2008

  I. Everyday brings about some evolution of thought or matter or circumstance. You have everything you need to forge ahead, you know, except the unbreakable spirit. II. How many times will you drag yourself to the wall? How many times will you scrape your spirit against the bricks? I know what they told you, [...]

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In Praise of the Elephant Girls

by Jane Devin on 03/16/2008

“When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick her.” – Hindu Proverb 1. Strength Among the first things noticed about an elephant girl is her incredible strength. She can shoulder the burdens and carry the weight of many human experiences, and do so with dignity, even when her threshold for pain is [...]

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