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The Drum

Issue 27. August 2012

JOAN KANE NICHOLS Treasures

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At this time of year in 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and much of the surrounding area. Joan Kane Nichols's flash fiction "Treasures" sets us down in one woman's home as she and her husband Darryl prepare to evacuate, one of them more readily than the other. The story is a vivid dramatization of the pull of belongings--treasures--as both burden and rescue. (5:06)

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LISTEN! THEN SEND US YOUR AUDIO STORY

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Get some audio inspiration from our regularly changing audio prompts and record a three-minute story for The Drum. Send us the audio on our Soundcloud Dropbox--over there on the left-hand side of our home page--and share with Drum listeners and writers. (:7)

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LOUNGE LIT: TRANSGRESSIONS

If you missed the July 19 Transgressions event with The Drum, the Boston Book Festival, and WBUR, don't worry! We've got local writers Chris Abouzeid, Chris Castellani, Holly LeCraw, Ethan Gilsdorf, and Drum founding editor Henriette Lazaridis Power recorded from the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge, MA. Hear them read their short essays and stories about transgression, introduced and hosted by WBUR's Adam Ragusea. Law-breaking, rule-bending, convention-busting, paradigm-shifting. It's all here.

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theme: comedy

theme: crisis

theme: relationships

theme: family

genre: essay

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short fiction

poetry

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