A Short Story (Not mine, but one you should read)

The Atlantic Monthly | January 1981
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/81jan/pancake.htm

The Honored Dead

"I put out my hand like the bar of soap was in it, and see its whiteness reflect blue from the streetlights long ago. And I remember Eddie's hand flattened on green felt, arched knuckles cradling the cue for a tough eight-ball shot, or I remember the way his hand curled around his pencil to hide answers on math tests. I remember his hand holding an arrowhead or unscrewing a lug nut, but I can't remember his face."

by B. D'J. Pancake

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atching little Lundy go back to sleep, I wish I hadn't told her about the Mound Builders to stop her crying, but I didn't know she would see their eyes watching her in the dark. She was crying about a cat run down by a car—her cat, run down a year ago, only today poor Lundy figured it out. Lundy is turned too much like her momma. Ellen never worries because it takes her too long to catch the point of a thing, and Ellen doesn't have any problem sleeping. I think my folks were a little too keen, but Lundy is her momma's girl, not jumpy like my folks.

My grandfather always laid keenness on his Shawnee blood, his half-breed mother, but then he was hep on blood. He even had an oath to stop bleeding, but I don't remember the words. He was a fair to sharp woodsman, and we all tried to slip up on him at one time or another. It was Ray at the sugar mill finally caught him, but he was an old man by then, and his mind wasn't exactly right. Ray just came creeping up behind and laid a hand on his shoulder, and the old bird didn't even turn around; he just wagged his head and said, "That's Ray's hand. He's the first fellow ever slipped on me." Ray could've done without that because the old man never played with a full deck again, and we couldn't keep clothes on him before he died.

I turn out the lamp, see no eyes in Lundy's room, then it comes to me why she was so scared. Yesterday I told her patches of stories about scalpings and murders, mixed up the Mound Builders with the Shawnee raids, and Lundy chained that with the burial mound in the back pasture. Tomorrow I'll set her straight. The only surefire thing I know about Mound Builders is they must have believed in a god and hereafter or they never would have made such big graves.

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BANNED BOOK WEEK

ALA's Top 10 list of "challenged" books of 2008

By The Associated Press The Associated Press – 57 mins ago

Here is the American Library Association's list of top 10 most frequently challenged books of 2008, their author and the cited reasons:

_"And Tango Makes Three," by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group.

_"His Dark Materials trilogy," by Philip Pullman. Reasons: political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, and violence.

_"TTYL" (series), by Lauren Myracle. Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.

_"Scary Stories" (series), by Alvin Schwartz. Reasons: occult/Satanism, religious viewpoint, and violence.

_"Bless Me, Ultima," by Rudolfo Anaya. Reasons: occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, and violence.

_"The Perks of Being a Wallflower," by Stephen Chbosky. Reasons: drugs, homosexuality, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, suicide, and unsuited to age group.

_"Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar. Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.

_"Uncle Bobby's Wedding," by Sarah S. Brannen. Reasons: homosexuality and unsuited to age group.

_"The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini. Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.

_"Flashcards of My Life," by Charise Mericle Harper. Reasons: sexually explicit and unsuited to age group.