August 18th, 2011 / 1:24 pm
Excerpts & Snippets

“My momma always said I got a head shaped like a heart. Not like them cartoon hearts bitch girls draw about other boys in their notebooks. Like the real thing. A pumping chambered ugly of a muscle not meant for no light of day. Guess that means instead of brains I’m all blood. Guess that’s why I ain’t ever been scared of blood. It’s warm like I’m warm. It pools thick and gorgeous and don’t step in it less you want to make a painting of what you done for any passing bitch to start hollering about.” — from “Heart,” a great new Lindsay Hunter short in Burrow Press’s “15 Views of Orlando” project

12 Comments

  1. Dcooperweb

      Very nice.  I must get ‘Daddy’s’.

  2. Dcooperweb

      Very nice.  I must get ‘Daddy’s’.

  3. Mike Young

      Dennis—I’m guessing—yeah, I feel like you would totally love Daddy’s.

  4. Justin Daugherty

      I loved to the two stories I’ve read out of Daddy’s. I need the book. Lindsay is awesome.

  5. Russ

      Lindsay effin’ rules.  Hi Lindsay!  You rule!

  6. TopSecretGuest

      I like this.  Reminds me of the voice in Toni Cade Bamabra’s “Gorilla, My Love.” I’m a sucker for voice and dialect. 

  7. TopSecretGuest

      I like this.  Reminds me of the voice in Toni Cade Bamabra’s “Gorilla, My Love.” I’m a sucker for voice and dialect. 

  8. deadgod

      Does the story end with “down another, I” – or is there another ‘page’ that I couldn’t find?

      I enjoyed what I could find, but wonder if this sentence isn’t unnecessary:  “Another thing about me is, I got a real hard time showing my true emotions.”  (It’s both already clear and contradicts itself, in a way.)

  9. gene

      speaking of, really excited when the hunter’s novel hits the fray. you too young, you too. far off in both yr cases as i’ve heard, but when they do hit, i’ll mark it on my calendar with a post-it noted ‘lose yr shit.’

  10. Burrow Press

      That’s the end. Thanks all of the above for reading. And thanks, HTMLG.

  11. stephen tully dierks

      I like Lindsay Hunter =) Because I have heard her read more than I have read her on paper, it’s interesting to see the paragraphs and the writerliness, so to speak.

  12. Scottmcclanahan

      Lindsay is the best.  I like her better than the former Pistons’ guard of the same name.