Wreckage of Reason, and Fiction Packet 3

There were two poems that stuck out to me for the reading for this week. The first story I want to discussed is in wreckage of reason on page 72 titled New York/LA whirlwind romance. the title it self explain what is going on in the story. I love this story because it kept me interested and guessing what exactly is wrong with this guy. I mean its about a phone conversation two individuals have who never met each other, but the only words written down is from the men. Its things he said before they met in person and after. Just by reading the dialogue I get the feeling that this guy is not very good in relationships and he is a older guy that wants to control the person he dates, he tends to be sarcastic about a lot of things and its like he is constantly trying to reassure his self that meeting this girl will be fine. Like on page 73 at the very bottom he says, "I think it's going to be fine." "I think it's going to be more than fine." "I think it's going to be great." Its like he know its not gone be fine because he know how he is in relationship but he wants to make his self believe it is. Then before he meets her he say all types of nice things to her like on page 73 again he says "I think your brilliant writer." "I love your voice." "I think you're swell". Then as soon as he meets her he get arrogant and kind of mean with the things he say to her. On page 75 he states, "Someday you'll write something real. Not just ......"; then on page 76 and 77 he say, "Am I deaf or do you keep mumbling?" "You eat like a junkie." "The best thing about you coming is I finally cleaned my house." then at the very end of the story he states "I'm actually a really incredible guy." this guy was just unpredictable with some of the things he said throughout the story and I believe he definitely had some self esteem issues. All together it was a great story and a little funny at times too.

The next story was in the 3rd fiction packet call The Singing Fish, the second story in the packet. After reading this story I'm confused on so many levels I don't even know where to start. The story was little weird to me and I couldn't quite understand what was being said. A lot of the words kept being repeated which I didn't understand. Like in the first half when the story starts off it talks about the girl sleeping and the brothers picture her as a cave and in the cave they see fish swimming, but not just normal fish stick figure fish. Then they say, " these fish, stick- scrawled across made-out-of-mud walls--these fishes--they are pictures of us."Now them saying that got me thinking that do these brothers wish that they were the fish and this what they would look like and be. Then the moon came into the picture and the brothers hand which confused me too. Also they kept referring to they see, like who is this "They" the brothers are referring too. Then right after that story its the story of What our mother always told us. Which confused me a little more but not really. I think they block out the negative things there mother say because they see her as this sweet person and only listen as if she is speaking the kindest words. Also in the first story of the packet called when it rains it rains a river the brothers talk about a girl as if they want a sister for the both of them. It states on page 6 "Inside each mirror, we see girl, other than girl, gazed back at us. These girls other than girl, these other girls--these girls are girl's sisters. There is a sister, we see, for each of us brothers". These statements made me feel as if these brother was trying to fill a void in there life. Like having sisters because they have never experienced anything like that before. It was an interesting story to read and it can be interpreted in many ways.

I really enjoyed reading this weeks stories. They were well written especially the stories in wreckage to reason. There was a quite few I enjoyed and I'm sure others have as well. The cottage life was one that I thought was interesting also. I enjoyed it all hope to read more great stories.