Happy Thursday, DB readers! Get ready to relish in the thirty-seventh vintage pick of the week, a lovely bit of prose we published back in Spring 2005, entitled "Flotsam," by writer Gayle Brandeis. Packed full of amusing imagery and just enough clever characterization, this DB 7 gem is one you won't soon be forgetting.
"She liked the sheer randomness of it, the fact that these truck drivers never imagined their back door would fall off, never imagined their truck would flip and let loose its load, never imagined the freeway would be hopping with wind-up monsters or flowing with table syrup, never imagined they wouldn't deliver their goods on time. It reminded her that anything could happen at any given moment. The world was full of random danger, random beauty. Anything was possible."
Gayle Brandeis is an author, poet, and essayist out of Riverside, CA, with several novels under her belt and works appearing in many anthologies and publications. in 2002, her novel The Book of Dead Birds won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change. Brandeis is also on the national staff of the women's peace organization CODEPINK and is a founding member of the Women Creating Peace Collective. To find out what she's got in the works, check out her website at gaylebrandeis.com.
Click here to read "Flotsam"
Happy Thursday, DB readers! Get ready to relish in the thirty-seventh vintage pick of the week, a lovely bit of prose we published back in Spring 2005, entitled "Flotsam," by writer Gayle Brandeis. Packed full of amusing imagery and just enough clever characterization, this DB 7 gem is one you won't soon be forgetting.
"She liked the sheer randomness of it, the fact that these truck drivers never imagined their back door would fall off, never imagined their truck would flip and let loose its load, never imagined the freeway would be hopping with wind-up monsters or flowing with table syrup, never imagined they wouldn't deliver their goods on time. It reminded her that anything could happen at any given moment. The world was full of random danger, random beauty. Anything was possible."
Gayle Brandeis is an author, poet, and essayist out of Riverside, CA, with several novels under her belt and works appearing in many anthologies and publications. in 2002, her novel The Book of Dead Birds won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change. Brandeis is also on the national staff of the women's peace organization CODEPINK and is a founding member of the Women Creating Peace Collective. To find out what she's got in the works, check out her website at gaylebrandeis.com.
Click here to read "Flotsam"