Lisa Eckstein’s Reviews > The Pulse between Dimensions and the Desert > Status Update
Lisa Eckstein
is 37% done
"Ear to the Ground" goes from childhood innocence to shocking violence, with an interlude of opening pecans and discovering impossible contents. After that comes a series of paragraph-length works that felt like tiny memoirs. From "Enojada": "If somebody asks me where I'm from or corners me to guess my ethnicity, I remember their faces and think about punching their throats when I'm taking a bath to relax."
— Dec 09, 2020 12:05PM
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Lisa Eckstein
is 87% done
"The movie ends with the head wizard winking and blowing a kiss as she makes the theater pitch black. Droplets from the ceiling landed on my head and exposed skin. I felt hundreds of legs crawling on me. I sat in darkness and applauded. The lights came on and my skin was covered in pink and purple dust. The crawling came from the scorpions let loose as a consolation prize for watching the movie."
— Dec 13, 2020 11:50AM
Lisa Eckstein
is 75% done
Such a varied, dreamy, poetic collection. A couple more stories have featured time travel, and those are some of my favorites.
— Dec 11, 2020 11:29AM
Lisa Eckstein
is 17% done
I can't remember where I heard about this collection of brief stories. I was drawn in by the second, "Lupe and Her Time Machine," a beautiful, dreamy story of a grandmother who builds and decorates a machine in her garage. Maybe it lets her time travel, maybe she's simply remembering, but that's not particularly important to the story.
— Dec 05, 2020 09:07PM
