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SF Signal: Embracing the Weird: Why We Love Weird Fiction.JG Faherty: Women in Horror Month Guest Blog.SF Signal: Convention Attention: Let’s go to Barbados! (An Interview with Author Lucy A.ASU News: Alumna Wins 5th Bram Stoker Award For Her Writing.“Ralph wept for the end of innocence””No no smoke no rescue”” ‘- we thought -‘ … ‘-they made us.Image below: Lucy being interviewed for the September 2015 cover story of WM Magazine at Chattel House Books in Bridgetown, Barbados. PIGGY AND CONCH DIE”Ralph continued to blow … ‘No use’ “”Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag og fat”Ralph says ” ‘Are we savages or what?’ ” to Piggy”conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” Of us’ “Ralph says to Piggy ” ‘Let the fire go then, for to-night'”” ‘You write a letter to your auntie’ “ SIMON DIES”thin trickle of smoke was climbing into the sky””leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore””Betrayed by his stomach, Piggy through a bone down on the beach and stooped for more””Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill” “no smoke without fire” (when J leaves fire/rescue hope back)”The sound of the inexpertly blown conch interrupted them” (Jack blows conch)”That’s what grown-ups would do”” ‘Out of the dark -‘ … ‘Trees-‘ ” (Breakdown of speech)Jack says about Ralph that ” ‘He isn’t a proper chief’ … ‘He’s a coward himself’ “ I wounded him!’ ” (Ralph killing the boar””new respect and felt hunting was good after all””Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that, brown, vulnerable flesh” RALPH JOINS PIG HUNT “By now, Ralph has no self-consciousness in public””Ralph, carried away by a sudden thick excitement, grabbed Eric’s spear and jabbed at Robert with it”” ‘I hit him all right. “But a sign came down form the world of grown-ups” (Literal and metaphorical fall)”four unwinking eyes aimed and two mouths opened” (Sam and Eric)”one terrified mind” (Sam and Eric) Ralph “He lost himself in maze of thoughts” (not only loss of logic but subconscious taking over conscious – FREUDIAN)Piggy says ” ‘Grown-ups know things.’ “ “almost naked””taboo of the old life” stops Roger from directly throwing stone at Henry.But ” Roger led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying flowers””unease of wrong doing””fierce exhilaration” of hunting “Jack had to think for a moment before he could remember what rescue was.””Seductive, maddening the promise of meat.” After all we’re not savages”Jack respects democracy “held out is hand for the conch We must make a fire.’ “Ironic how Jack says ” ‘We got to have rules and obey them. “the conch forgotten”Ralph suggests ” ‘we must make a smoke on top of the mountain. We ought to have a meeting’ “The choir are first introduced in the novel as “marching approximately in step in two parallel lines””Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks””uniformed superiority”Naming: “The choir” “The boys” “Sam and Eric”

Ralph is “pulling a lump from the poor soil”Piggy says ” ‘and make a list.

Lord of the flies aha moment