Comments on: Short Story Friday: The Bluest Eye by Lance Larsen

By: Jonathan Langford

Jonathan Langford — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:30:38 +0000

Best line/phrase (in my opinion): “scanning my mother’s kitchen for a more responsible owner.”

Nice, and amusing. I also give Larson full credit for stopping, rather than seeing some need to sustain it at greater length.

By: nosurfgirl

nosurfgirl — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:12:52 +0000

I took from Lance Larsen at BYU. Amazing teacher. Amazing writer. Also loved the devotional address he gave on creativity… one of the best I’ve ever heard (devotionals, and treatises on creativity.)

By: Harlow Clark

Harlow Clark — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:04:16 +0000

Zoe, you should write your story up, supplying the details and sensory images. It would be interesting to get together an anthology about eyes or fake eyes. “The Bluest Eye,” Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People,” and Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Telltale Heart” come to mind. What about others? If you want to include fake body parts or lost limbs, John Ormond’s “Lament for a Leg” (in Definition of a Waterfall) is a lovely piece.

By: Zoe Murdock

Zoe Murdock — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:28:29 +0000

I loved this essay . . . story . . . whatever. Reminded me of my first encounter with a false eye when I was, oh, eight or so. I was the child cleaning lady for a woman in our ward. Merrily dusting her bedroom dresser one day, I picked up the velvet “ring” box to look at her jewelry and found myself faced with her eye. It scared me so bad I dropped it and sent it rolling across the floor under the bed. After retrieving it, I put it carefully back in the box, then ran to the bathroom to wash my hands.

Your version is much better, Lance, much more poetic and well . . . disturbing in some ways.
Wonderful!!

By: Th.

Th. — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:01:03 +0000

I know this isn’t really a literary response, but I’m left wondering how that pink socket keeps itself clean…?