Saturday, November 8, 2008

Faulkner in Illinois


You recall the plot of "A Rose for Emily," right? Well, someone in Evanston, IL just did her one -- no, no, make that two -- better:
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — A 90-year-old woman apparently has been living in a house with the bodies of her three siblings, one of whom may have been dead since the early 1980s, police in suburban Chicago said.

The bodies were found Friday morning by police...
Geez, what with vampires, werewolves, and scary old nonogenarians, this blog is becoming beastly. Better go back to writing reflective prose like everybody else. And soon too...

2 comments:

Darcy said...

You have a knack for finding the extremes...you've got an overreactive teacher making mountains out of molehills and some oblivious lady living with her dead siblings. I guess these two are the polar opposites...one hyper-sensitive and the other dulled to obliviousness.

brybigb said...

Creepy. That's one of my favorite short stories though! The real-life version is much less fascinating.