Smiley Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Please Join us for discussion on Saturday night, February 12, 2011 of the following story: "A Telephone Call" by Dorothy Parker Story URL: http://www.amlit.com/Parker/SS/ATelephoneCall.html Meeting time: 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time Meeting place: #Readers_CornerWebChat Users: http://koach.com/index.php?id=chatlogin&client=web&chan=%23readers_corner IRC users: /server -m irc.koach.com -j #readers_corner 6667 Hope to see you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grip Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Great Turnout and Chat last night all. Posting the log. Also a few very interesting related links provided last night: Star's contribution of the female brain: link Logos contribution of a D. Parker Poem of great interest in relation to the story:link My favorite explanation of the way men vs. women think (aka boxes/wires): We also spoke of adding our own 'post story paragraph' - please feel free to do so! It would be fun and interesting to read. #readers_corner.20110212.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grip Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 We also spoke of adding our own 'post story paragraph' - please feel free to do so! It would be fun and interesting to read. Here is my ending preceded by the last few lines of the story as published: "Oh, please, dear God, dear kind God, my blessed Father in Heaven, let him call before then. Please, God. Please. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twentyfive, thirty, thirty-five..." Oh please ring, ring, ring ? Ring ? It Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiley Posted February 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Or alternately: Oh God, its ringing. Hello, Hello: This is the police mam. Do you know a Mr. Earl Smith? Yes, what's wrong. Well mam. He was killed in an auto accident about two hours ago...We just found the wreck at the bottom of the hill on Dead Man's Curve. Your number had been punched into his cellphone, but not sent at the time of the accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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