Anna Sargo-Ryan You Know How It Is (short story)
- Author: Anna Spargo-Ryan
- Title: You Know How It Is
- Published: 2018 @islandmagtas #Island152
- List Reading Challenges 2018
- Monthly reading planning
- #DealMeIn2018 Jay’s Bibliophilopolis
Conclusion:
- You Know How It Is by Anna Spargo-Ryan is a story
- I found in the literary magazine Island nr 152.
- The magazine is shipped to me …all the way from Hobart Tasmania!
- There is some great writing and writers to be discovered ‘down under’.
- The Anna Spargo-Ryan has learned the first lesson in writing:
- “hook” the reader in the first sentence.
- “The first thing Les Harrison catches on his
- …new line is a shark with his wife’s hand inside”.
- This shock start sets the stage .
- This is going to be a husband (Les) who
- …discovers his missing wife…dead (Claire).
- Claire announces earlier (flashback) that she is traveling
- …with some teachers to Sidney for a conference,
- …no partners allowed.
- Les is afraid his wife is leaving him.
- Spargo-Ryan stitches the layers of the narrative together
- …alternating the present (5x) with flashbacks (4x).
- She creates a seam of tension that kept pulling me through the story.
- I discovered Anna Spargo-Ryan in The Best Australian Essays 2016.
- Her story How to Love Football
- …about her grandfather and his favorite football team the Norwood Redlegs
- …was heartwarming, good-feeling story.
- In You Know How It Is
- Anna Spargo-Ryan shows her darker side with a whiff of humor.