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June 24, 2002
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Francie used to talk about the Wailing Wall, Israel, life on the kibbutz. She had
gone there once and picked weeds for a summer. She showed me a slide
show her parents had put together of a family trip to Jerusalem. She shot the
slides against the white wall of the playroom, bright squares of light and
desert, and afterward let me work through the zipper of her jeans, gold teeth
clawing the back of my hand. This was in New Jersey, a long way from Israel.
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Joseph Monninger and Nerve.com
Commentarium (21 Comments)
Great writing. Took me right back there. Thanks for publishing this. MR Arlington,
Ah the innocence of your stories. Even when they talk of sex they talk of innocence. Today it is not that way. By the age of 6 or 7 they know it all with the skin peeled off. I feel sorry for the young people of today.
I just wanted to say that i enjoyed it more than i thought i would. Especially the sensory touches. Thanks.
These brief stories are wonderful. I have so many flashbacks to some time in my life. Different time, different girls, different places, same feelings. Great work.
Loved the Monninger. Truly. It captures Saco, Maine. It keenly portrays the adolescence that I wish I had, the one I find myself inventing for myself. Good stuff.
I found Joseph's Monninger's "Girls" particulary remarkable for their capturing entire stories in just individual paragraphs. They are poetic in the way that some of the descriptions are just packed with sentiments that would often be stated in several sentences. There is a subtlety about them that is just beautiful. It's rather impressive! The world that the author paints of childhood freedom and abandon just makes me wish that everything was as straightforward as it's made out to be, that everything was just as pristine in whatever it was as Monninger's work here portrays. It's all so positive and smooth and that just further accentuates how reality is generally the opposite.
The story "Girls" by Joseph Monninger is terrific. Hope you run more pieces by him.
I have just read "Girls by Joseph Monninger" it was brillant and beautiful. I haven't read anything that good in ages.
I grew up with Joe. Where were all those girls on Friday and Saturday nights when I was cruising Friendly's? Thoroughly enjoyed the tales and it brought back some fond memories.
wonderful.
I thought that was great. Lovely natural, seemingly effortless style.
Very good. I turned the pages with great enthusiasm. Nostalgic.Excellent perspective.
Perfect moments, perfectly written.
cool! i remember when
Beautiful. Thank you. For illustrating in no mean way the terms of a young and youthful desire. Your words captured my origins and took my breath away.
-a girl
perfectly beautifully simply written. loved it!
Incredible. I loved this.
Amazing. Incredible. Tangible. Thank you.
Excellent writing. You have a good feel for dialogue. Don't know if you've tried publishing in print, but you definitely should.
very good. incredible. i loved it.
ZAmVUI I do`t regret that spent a few of minutes for reading. Write more often, surely'll come to read something new...
Now you say something