Arlene Sanders
ARLENE SANDERS is an Appalachian Mountain writer. She is a native of Virginia and a lifelong Southerner. Sanders received Pushcart Prize nominations for "Fire and Ice" and "Wish You Were Here." Her first story collection, TIGER BURNING BRIGHT, was honored as a Finalist in the Jefferson Press Prize for Best New Voice in Fiction Competition. Her fiction has been published in many literary reviews. Johns Hopkins University M.A. degree candidate, Phi Beta Kappa.
“When all is said and done, later in this century, and in the next one, and the century after that, it will be understood that. . .the greatest American writer of our time was James M. Cain.”
Arlene Sanders
“Killing people is wrong.”
Arlene Sanders
“She was a woman of a certain age. A woman who wanted a man, but for whom romance was like a foreign country she had not visited in some time. . . .In the mirror over the dresser in her bedroom, she stared at her face. Some of the silvering had worn off the mirror, and soft, dark streaks slanting across the glass gave her image the aspect of a cameo, delicate, but distinctly antique. . . .She would not speak with the waiter in French, nor would she order anything weird, such as squid. Certainly nothing that would be strong on her breath, like garlic, because what if. . . .? She hadn't been kissed in thirty years.”
Arlene Sanders