http://www.scrollinspace.com Scroll Press Literary Journal: ISSN 1708-3591 en-gb http://www.scrollinspace.com/article.php/20091223130316388 Eleanor closed the last exam booklet for her introductory philosophy class and recorded the grade of 52 percent. Academically, she knew that this was a travesty. This student had failed. But, in the larger scheme of things and with the purpose of education in mind, Eleanor believed that she was doing the right thing. She looked at the student’s name on the front of her exam book – “Misti-Dawn Moon.” http://www.scrollinspace.com/article.php/20100107234813590 Climbing Patrick’s Mountain: Anything But a Rose Garden Des Kennedy’s newest novel, Climbing Patrick’s Mountain, unfolds, petal by petal, from a garden of hybridized roses grown by an eccentric misanthrope named Patrick Gallagher. http://www.scrollinspace.com/article.php/20051006185806893 As the editor and publisher of Scroll Press, I am pleased to announce that Mark Shegelski's collection of short stories, Remembering the Future, has been published by Scroll Press. Other Scroll Press titles include: Rebecca Bradley's The Lateral Truth: An Apostate's Bible Stories, and R. Patrick's Prisoners Under Glass.Scroll Press books are available at your local bookstore (just ask the bookstore owner to order them for you) or online (Amazon.com or any online bookstore that you frequent. For more information about our authors, go to the Scroll Press website:http://www.scrollpress.comThere, you can click on each author's name in the right hand menu. On the author's website, you can click on the author interview (right hand menu) and comment on the book. http://www.scrollinspace.com/article.php/20091210111430586 The Okal Rel Saga is a ten-novel SF series by Lynda Williams, published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy. Part 6: Avim's Oath will be out in April 2009. I am currently working on Part 8: Gathering Storm in which the cultural exchange referred to below is taking place. The excerpt below is a draft vignette probably written circum 2003 which didn't find its way into the novel-in-progress. But I've been encouraged to believe that "off stage" glimpses of the characters that don't appear in printed publication will interest some followers of the series. So I thought I would try sharing some through Scroll in Space."And which one of them -- " Perry said, casting the pronoun to denote a pair of Purebloods, "-- had this particular bright idea?" Not a promising start, thought Amel, standing in his flight leathers on the other side of her desk. He suspected he ought to say something encouraging. “Um, well,” was all he actually said. http://www.scrollinspace.com/article.php/20090828223901907 From Both Sides of the River by Charlie Anne Cutter Mikkelsen There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. --- Soren Kierkegaard Prologue Fact or Fiction THE COOKING SEASON of 1980 in Provence was the ecstatic moment of her life. After years of raising children and suffering extraordinary grief, Mary Helen had, at last, transformed herself. She had just completed another term as American assistant to the revered cooking icon, Simone “Simca” Beck at her school of French cookery in the South of France. Mary Helen was euphoric, dreaming of many more seasons in the lavender drenched countryside. http://www.scrollinspace.com/article.php/20090909193542953 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.” Reviewed by Ann Tiffany. “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” is a lighthearted story about a serious subject. http://www.scrollinspace.com/article.php/20080408152346156 “You’re not serious.” “I don’t expect you to wait, I mean obviously I hope-” “You hope?! Hope what? That I’ll hold a candle-light vigil or something? You’re not doing this!” http://www.scrollinspace.com/article.php/20090714220203491 I bought The Lollipop Shoes last summer from a small downtown bookstore in Duncan. A big fan of Joanne Harris’s work, I was immediately drawn to the cover, and upon looking closer, I read that this book is the long-awaited sequel to Harris’s bestseller Chocolat. I knew I had to buy it in order to find out where the wind had taken Vianne, Anouk, and, possibly, Roux. http://www.scrollinspace.com/article.php/20090326001655414 PROLOGUE FOR “COMMON THREADS” (A Fictionalised Biography) When I was about twelve and my brother ten we asked our mother whether she’d ever learned anything at all about her father; what country he was from and how and when he died. Mom had been regaling us with tales about her childhood in a Victoria, BC, orphanage where she and her sister were taken in 1918, when she was five-and-a-half and our Auntie Rose* (not her real name) was almost three. http://www.scrollinspace.com/article.php/20090323121034463 In autumn, winter, and spring, the aurora dances reds, greens, yellows, whites and blues across the heavens. If you have never seen an aurora, imagine a rainbow. To intensify it, backdrop the rainbow against a black sky. Look at the colors. Now start undulating it in separate waves or flashes that snake or whip across the sky. Imagine a colored glow that changes the sky from its darkness to green or white or, if you're very lucky, the crimson red of a sunset or rise.