Tag: New Era

Short Story Friday: Pride of Lions by Eugene Woodbury

Because this story by Eugene Woodbury features this line: “I don’t need a chaperon, Forrest.” And it’s an interesting, slightly subversive (read the story and Eugene’s note below) but in a good way, slice of home literature.

Title: Pride of Lions

Author: Eugene Woodbury

Publication Info: The New Era, 1993

Submitted by: Eugene

Why?: Eugene says: When an editor at The New Era correctly recognized the homage to Christian Slater (Pump up the Volume, Heathers), I restrained myself from quipping, “Oh, so you watch R-rated movies too?”

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Short Story Friday: Just Cut on the Dotted Line by Jack Weyland

For this week’s pick, I’m going to go with a story from the New Era. We’ll get to a Popcorn Popping story next week and we have several more excellent submissions of stories that appeared in Dialogue. Nothing from Sunstone so far, though. And so far no women have submitted to the spreadsheet.

Title: Just Cut on the Dotted Line

Author: Jack Weyland

Publication Info: New Era, 1997

Submitted by: Theric Jepson

Why?: Theric writes — “.

“My only run-in with Weyland to this point was his egocentric If Talent Were a Pizza self-help book. Which turned me off him as nothing else could.

“Fastforward a couple years to the final weeks of my mission. We’re in the church waiting for someone and, huh, and English-language New Era. Weird. I pick it up, read the cartoon then the fiction. And maybe it’s because I was nearly two-years fictionf ree, but I loved it. When I saw who it was written by I was shocked.

“But apparently, I still haven’t quite forgiven him for his Pizza monstrosity as I’ve never read anything else of his since.”

Thanks Theric!

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