MetroPulse Stories: Other Lives

On the Edge

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:00 -0000

Other Lives by Lucy Sieger: From the book’s spine, an enigmatic dark-haired woman engages me with her smoky gaze. She has stenciled brows, kohl-lined eyes and a beauty mark; she is dangling a cigarette, of course. She is my alter ego, the writer I always wanted to be, my creative soul embodied in the daughter of sculptors from the Left Bank of Paris or poets from Prague

Short Stuff

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:00:00 -0000

Other Lives by Meg Beach: I’m five-foot nothing in my stocking feet. If you need a visual, I’m the same height—although not nearly the same width—as Danny DeVito. I never really thought of myself as short until just a few years ago when I heard DeVito in an interview say he was the same height as I am. It was truly a shock. I’d always thought of myself as being the same height as anyone I made eye contact with; I never took into account how much my neck was craned backward...

In the River of Now

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:00:00 -0000

Other Lives: Maybe it was all those Harleys rolling into the campground. I mean, I’ve had small realizations seep in over the last few months and certainly moments of synchronicity surfaced when Joel and I looked at each other, wordless, and smiled in simultaneous recognition. But the roaring engines brought it home for me. Brought it to this new home, this temporary home, called Knoxville.