The Green Rolling Hills
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Here’s a potpourri of original stories and poems from up-and-coming West Virginia writers, edited by well-known author Victor J. Banis. The anthology includes: “The Reckoning,” “Metamorphosis,” and “The Thief” by Bev Rees; “Rosie and Mac” by Sally Brinkmann; “Dear Ann Landers: Excerpts from a Novel in Progress,” by Craig Tucker; “AIDS Diaries—Francel,” “Day Lights, Night Lights,” and “Hob Knobbin’” by Eve Birch; “Pappy’s Angels,” “Big Easys,” and “A Wildwood Flounder” by Leigh Horne; “The Azalea Quartet: An Excerpt from a Novel in Progress” by Trish Rudder; “The Child Bride of Lester Cooley,” “The Shiny Black Car,” and “Love in a Lobster Pot” by Calvert Estill; “Harai” by Christine Kaye; and “Precious Child: A Memoir of Healing” by Wanda R. Riggle, and an «Introduction» by Victor J. Banis. Although the regional flavor comes through in every page of this book, many of the stories could be set in any milieu, and still be successful. Great writing—and great reading!
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Shortly after moving to Martinsburg, West Virginia, in late 2004, I joined a local writers’ group. I soon discovered that many of these writers shared a common style—not a common voice, exactly, since it was quickly apparent that each of them had his or her own writing “voice”—but, they all had something that I only gradually came to recognize as a West Virginia voice too.
Just as the locals speak with their own version of a Southern accent, a drawl that is clearly not Northern, but is less pronounced than what one finds in the deeper South—a soft, almost a musical way of speaking—I found too that West Virginia writers “speak” in a manner that is very much their own.
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Back at the cottage the rest of the family was up, and Robert was dropping Pop Tarts into the toaster. “I see you’ve already been out. How’s the weather?”
“Not good. Robert, listen to me. There’s an army of marsh flies out there on the drying seaweed. The kids will have to stay on the porch.”
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