A Love Story

The brief heading involving hormones and receptors are mostly based on middle-aged couple, in most of these couples life's after they have kids they sex life's becomes non-existence because they are busy working and providing for their families. Forgetting that they are individuals with needs and wants. This causes a lot of conflict between middle-aged couple. I think the writer's is trying to tell her readers that it does not matter how old you are. You still have those feelings of being wanted and needed.

Arranged Marriage

Stealthy glances
At one another
The first time they met
Anxious smile
No words spoken yet.

Friends and discord
Came i-two-a bin
One's family
The others is in an uproar.

Big- bellied uncles
With funny jokes in abundance
Some below the belt
All wanting more

The ladies tittle-tattle
In a quiet tone;
Children not welcomed
Men do not enter.

In total ruckus
The couple secretly
A signal from the eyes
As the couple connected
To each other.

Hands joined
Flew apart;
Blushing in the face
An awkward start.

A tongued-tied silence
Prolonged the air ;
Far from talking
What a dumbfounded pair.

A Love Story

In "A Love Story" There are a series of brief stories near the end w/ headings that are kind of hormones and other receptors that play a part in the female body. What are these headings for? What do these various stories have to do w/ the main story that the narrator is telling? Did the wife ask her husband to go outside and check for intruders or did she just kick him out? When she lets him back in, why do they decide to leave the door open?

New Yorker Interview

When Samantha Hunt's story, "A Love Story," was published in The New Yorker last year, they also published this brief interview w/ her. Check it out!

The yellow

The Yellow has a strange plot.  I think I have to reread the story again for better understanding. The female character, a mother loved her pet dog, but why did she want the guy to kill her dog? Is is it too much to work to take care of her pet? I have so many questions about the story. It states that the dog came back to life again while they were making out? That part made me lost.

Samantha Hunt

Overall I felt the dark dark has complex stories that have to be reread the stories to gain some kind of perspective. Honestly even after rereading the "the story of" I was still lost. I was concerned on whether norma actually murdered dirty norma, but after hearing ms.hunts explanation I became at ease knowing that she only imagined it. In the end no one was really harmed. Also there was some confusion with the story "All Hands" I was a bit lost on the reasoning for having all three of the narrators having slightly similar stories, but once again after hearing ms.hunts explanation it made a lot of sense.IIt didn't make any sense in the first few times of reading it because they all were inspired by her opinion and stories she has personally heard from the original source. There is no way I could have known or rather comprehend clearly how the stories were relevant to each other if she did not take the time to do so. I really appreciated that she took out time of her day to give us some insight on her stories because I believe it will make it easier to read the rest of the stories in the dark dark knowing a little bit of her thought process.

Samantha Hunt

My first impression about Samanta Hunt was her hair. Because in the book and in the blog image it looks so beautiful and I thought that was photoshop or something. But after seeing Hunt in person, her hair looks the same as in the blog and book picture but more gorgeous. Also, I like her humor and how she keeps smiling and telling jokes because it shows that she's a happy person. Because in the blog image she doesn't look like a joyful person. Or maybe she was just pretending to be humorous?