Mayra Lazara Dole's Blog - Posts Tagged "stephenie-meyer"
I normally read new releases, but every year around November, I treat myself to world-famous short stories written by dead brilliant minds in the English literary tradition. http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-sto...
Yesterday, I paid tribute to Edgar Allan Poe who once said, "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry" and read something I’d never read before: The Pit and the Pendulum--about death, choice and hope rolled into one. Although affective, I found myself cringing and wanting to stop reading… but I didn’t.
Two words: Disturbing. Claustrophobic. http://heroeswiki.com/Image:Claustrop...
After reading the story, I dreamed Stephenie Meyer stepped into my living room wearing a long, dark raincoat. She trudged around the room, patting her pockets, searching everywhere for the Twilight Saga journal she’d misplaced. Her eyeballs landed on my half-eaten medianoche sandwich. She grabbed it from my hand, devoured it in one bite, and smiled. I watched as she looked into a mirror and swept a hand through her cascading hair while strawberry jam dripped from the side of her mouth.
Stephenie vanished and I found the journal outside on the street and tore three pages out of it and read them voraciously, but they were about Poe’s work. I pasted them on a large mirror and can’t remember the rest.
Two things are for sure:
1. I make a mean, authentic, medianoche sandwich with a twist that would bring Poe back from his grave and Stephenie over for a bite (no pun intended).
2. I have no clue what the hell my dream meant
(Getting back to the sandwich for a second…
I've also been known to prepare a mix of an Elena Ruz--another infamous Cuban sandwich--and medianoche/midnight that I only recommend once a year because it's so rich. If you’d like to make this unusual sandwich, scroll down for the recipe... if not, watch this video which has absolutely nothing to do with recipe: http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...#)
Until recently, when I wrote my first dark, magical realism short story for Running Press' anthology, CORNERED--to be released Spring, 2012--I couldn’t stomach dark, bloody stories, and as you can imagine, thrillers were out of the question.
Surprisingly, I’ve gone through a breakthrough.
After writing Inside the Inside, I’ve been able to read suspense and watch suspense films (LOVE them), but not sure if I can stomach hard-core thrillers yet. Violence seriously disgusts me. Can one work their way towards reading it without feeling repulsed?
Here's the mixed-up sandwich recipe I promised:
A Sort of MEDIANOCHE / ELENA RUTH SANDWICH
Buy sweet, Hawaiian, soft rolls or Challah (sweet, soft egg bread).
Cut the loaf lengthwise. Slice your piece open, toast, and spread the following on one half:
• Butter
• Mustard
* Mayonnaise
Spread the following on the other side:
• 2 TBS Cream cheese
• 2 TBS Strawberry marmalade
Add the following:
• 3 ham slices
• 2 pork slices
• 2 turkey slices
• 2 Swiss cheese slices
Place sandwich in a hot buttered skillet and press down hard with a heavy skillet or cast iron pot till cheese melts.
Enjoy!
TIDBITS:
• You don’t need to be Cuban or an adult to make Cuban bread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=228KxO...
Yesterday, I paid tribute to Edgar Allan Poe who once said, "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry" and read something I’d never read before: The Pit and the Pendulum--about death, choice and hope rolled into one. Although affective, I found myself cringing and wanting to stop reading… but I didn’t.
Two words: Disturbing. Claustrophobic. http://heroeswiki.com/Image:Claustrop...
After reading the story, I dreamed Stephenie Meyer stepped into my living room wearing a long, dark raincoat. She trudged around the room, patting her pockets, searching everywhere for the Twilight Saga journal she’d misplaced. Her eyeballs landed on my half-eaten medianoche sandwich. She grabbed it from my hand, devoured it in one bite, and smiled. I watched as she looked into a mirror and swept a hand through her cascading hair while strawberry jam dripped from the side of her mouth.
Stephenie vanished and I found the journal outside on the street and tore three pages out of it and read them voraciously, but they were about Poe’s work. I pasted them on a large mirror and can’t remember the rest.
Two things are for sure:
1. I make a mean, authentic, medianoche sandwich with a twist that would bring Poe back from his grave and Stephenie over for a bite (no pun intended).
2. I have no clue what the hell my dream meant
(Getting back to the sandwich for a second…
I've also been known to prepare a mix of an Elena Ruz--another infamous Cuban sandwich--and medianoche/midnight that I only recommend once a year because it's so rich. If you’d like to make this unusual sandwich, scroll down for the recipe... if not, watch this video which has absolutely nothing to do with recipe: http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...#)
Until recently, when I wrote my first dark, magical realism short story for Running Press' anthology, CORNERED--to be released Spring, 2012--I couldn’t stomach dark, bloody stories, and as you can imagine, thrillers were out of the question.
Surprisingly, I’ve gone through a breakthrough.
After writing Inside the Inside, I’ve been able to read suspense and watch suspense films (LOVE them), but not sure if I can stomach hard-core thrillers yet. Violence seriously disgusts me. Can one work their way towards reading it without feeling repulsed?
Here's the mixed-up sandwich recipe I promised:
A Sort of MEDIANOCHE / ELENA RUTH SANDWICH
Buy sweet, Hawaiian, soft rolls or Challah (sweet, soft egg bread).
Cut the loaf lengthwise. Slice your piece open, toast, and spread the following on one half:
• Butter
• Mustard
* Mayonnaise
Spread the following on the other side:
• 2 TBS Cream cheese
• 2 TBS Strawberry marmalade
Add the following:
• 3 ham slices
• 2 pork slices
• 2 turkey slices
• 2 Swiss cheese slices
Place sandwich in a hot buttered skillet and press down hard with a heavy skillet or cast iron pot till cheese melts.
Enjoy!
TIDBITS:
• You don’t need to be Cuban or an adult to make Cuban bread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=228KxO...
