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Gender, the written word, and righteous violence: or why you don't want me in your critique group.

Publication: The Horn Book Magazine
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The desks in our sixth-grade music class formed the perimeter of a rectangle, facing inward so our teacher could lead us in song. We sang a lot: the haunting "Tumbalalaika," the comical "Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me?" and "The Lonely Owl in the Moonlight," which I sang at home to our dog as a lullaby. It put him to sleep every time.

We weren't singing at the moment. We were filling in spaces on a worksheet. Timmy Walsh, a friend, sat next to me. A piece of good luck. Now he took some papers from his notebook and passed them over.

"I wrote you a story," he whispered.

I looked with interest at the two pieces...

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