"The siren on the top of the Dalton, North Dakota, fire station howls, as it does five days a week at this hour. Its wail frightens into flight the starlings that roost on the station roof every day yet never learn how fixed and foreseeable are human lives. The siren tells the town's working citizens and students what they already know. It's twelve o'clock, time for you to fly too. Put down your hammer, your pencil; close your books, cover your typewriter. Go home. Your wives and mothers are opening cans of soup and slicing bread and last night's roast beef for sandwiches. Come back in an hour, ready to put your shoulder to it, to add the figures, parse the sentences, calm the patients, please the customer."
Larry Watson LET HIM GO
If anyone cares to email me a piece of writing they admire in future weeks, that would be great.
FOOL'S GOLD chosen twice. I believe that has only happened once or twice.
Mark Baker, CITY OF BONES, Michael Connelly
Les Blatt, MAIGRET TRAVELS, Georges Simenon
Elgin Bleecker, THE GLASS KEY, Dashiell Hammett
Brian Busby, TARGET 2067, CANADA'S SECOND CENTURY, Leonard Berlin
Martin Edwards, THE GETAWAY, Jim Thompson
Curt Evans, A TASTE OF POWER, W. J. Burley
Elizabeth Foxwell, THE HIDDEN WRATH, Stella Phillips
Richard Horton, ICE, Anna Kavan
George Kelley, THE GREAT SF STORIES 2 OF 1940, Asimov and Greenberg
Margot Kinberg, A KILLER HARVEST, Paul Cleaves
Rob Kitchin, UNDER THE FRANGIPANI, Mia Couto
B.V. Lawson, FOOL'S GOLD, Ted Wood
Evan Lewis, CONAN, THE MAGNIFICENT, Robert Jordan
Steve Lewis/David Vineyard, A VERY BIG BANG, Philip McCutcheon
Todd Mason, MYSTERY SCENE, November 1986, edited by Ed Gorman and Bob Randisi; SCIENCE FICTION EYE, March 1988, edited by Steve Brown and Dan Steffan; NEW ORLEANS STORIES, Winter 1993, edited by O’Neil De Noux
J.F. Norris, TWO CASES FOR INSPECTOR KNOLLIS, Francis Vivian
ONLY DETECT. THE WHITE ROSE MURDERS, Paul Doherty
Matt Paust, IN THE BALANCE, Patricia Wentworth
James Reasoner, SLAVES FOR THE RENEGADE SULTAN, John Peter Drummond
Richard Robinson, STARSHIP TROOPERS, Robert A, Heinlein
Kevin Tipple, FOOL'S GOLD, Ted Wood
TracyK, BOOK OF THE DEAD, Elizabeth Daly
7 comments:
MONTANA 1948 is the only Watson I've read to date.
I am a big fan of all of his work.
The weather alarm on our fire station goes off at 6PM.
The coincidental choice of the same book has happened several times since I've been part of this crew (since 2011), but eerily it happens more with B.V. Lawson than anyone else! She must have some psychic connection to the FFB meme contributors. It's really remarkable. I know it happened twice (!) with her post and mine over the past seven years. (And thanks for managing to get my post in the list. I was *very* late this week and wasn't going to bother you with my usual plea.)
I got one of these spammers. I guess they're Onto FFB being targetable.
Thanks, Patti...and thanks for the replacement DARE ME! (Alice probably thought I bought it myself...I could imagine her thought as she put it inside the door this aft, on her way to visit her sick friend--"He's still buying More Books!")
I do like Watson's writing - thanks for sharing, Patti. And thanks for including my post here.
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