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Special Edition! “Sugar And Spice,” An Original Short Story

December 23, 2011 by Leanne Sowul 6 Comments

Today’s post is a personal first: my first self-published work. The following is a story I wrote for my creative writing class at Vassar. The themes of family and Christmas joy are very appropriate as we all prepare for the holiday weekend. I hope you enjoy it, and please feel free to leave comments. I […]

Filed Under: Short Stories, Writing Tagged With: Christmas, short story, vassar, Wallaby

Importer/Exporter: Library Book Haul

November 30, 2011 by Leanne Sowul 2 Comments

For those of you waiting for Part 2 of the Sense and Sensibility post, it’s coming. But right now I want to share the things I’m most excited about in my reading and writing worlds. This afternoon, on a whim, I stopped by the library on the way home, thinking to restock on audiobooks for […]

Filed Under: Books, Writing Tagged With: chris bohjalian, Christmas, gail collins, kristin hannah, library, meg cabot, memoir, midwives, novels, phillippa gregory, short stories, vassar

Taste the Words

November 1, 2011 by Leanne Sowul 1 Comment

I love good food. I love good writing. Therefore, I adore good food writing. Last week in my creative writing class, the professor passed around a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri, author of The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth (both of which are on my to-read list). The story was called “Indian Takeout” and it described the […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: cake, description, food, hunger, india, jhumpa lahiri, magic, sensory, short stories, vassar

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