Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 1991 Catskill stories Linda Morganstein Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, and the Fiction Commons Recommended Citation Morganstein, Linda, "Catskill stories" (1991). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 49. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/49 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Catskill stories by Unda Morganstern A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Department: English Major: English (Creative Writing) Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 1991 ll TABLE OF CONTENTS Page MY MOSES STORY 1 QUEEN OF CUPS 25 PEARL STREET 43 BAD SIGN 52 WHEEL OF FORTUNE 74 --~~~~~-------- ------ MY MOSES STORY I saw my old friend Moses in People magazine yesterday. He's leading Quincy Parker through a mob of reporters. Parker is wearing jail clothes and handcuffs, but he looks like a Chivas Regal ad. If anyone looks like the criminal, it's Moses, his disheveled attorney. Poor Moses. Almost sixteen years since I've seen him and he continues to resemble a disreputable stork, the way his skinny neck sticks out from his collar. Moses defends the notorious and the reprehensible.