Six Sentences, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Learned To Love “When I Came Home To Cindy”

Six Sentences, the website devoted to flash fiction--that being what an author can write in six complete sentences, has published my story “When I Came Home To Cindy”. The story takes less than a moment to read.

http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-came-home-to-cindy.html

I’ve been hip deep in grading mid-terms, and prepping for a guest lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder, but I will have more free time to update the blog and website in November.

Timothy Braun
October 17th, 2008
Austin, TX

Five Easy Pieces (a quintet of other matters on my mind).
1.) My Ball State Cardinal football team is undefeated and ranked 24th in the land, and when watching them I think they could take any Big Ten team. In related new, my other schools, Columbia University—who sits at the bottom of the Ivey League—and the University of New Mexico, are a combined 3-8.
2.) I thank Bill Maher for standing up to Ralph Nader and his jackass stupid comments regarding criticisms of Sarah Palin as sexist. I know I’m in the minority, but I have never respected Nader, and I think he is so stupid a box of hammers could beat him in a game of chess.
3.) I remember seeing Paul Newman at the Cherry Lane Theater at an Eduardo Machado play a few years back. So cool, he was.
4.) I was just knocked out when I saw this…http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/16/1537 51/93
5.) When teaching E.B. White, it is always interesting to see how my students interpret Once More To The Lake. How does this classic end essay end and why?

CODA
I think all politicians should play a box of hammers in chess. If they blow the game, they can’t run for office. I greatly appreciated Christopher Hitchens new essay, which you can catch here http://www.slate.com/id/2202163/