Fiction and Social Networking

For the "Fiction and Social Networking" assignment, our group had the option to choose between "Blackberry Winter" and "A Spinster's Tale." Amongst the two stories, we chose to use Peter Taylor's "A Spinster's Tale" in our social network. After reading over both stories, we felt that "A Spinster's Tale" was the more appropriate choice for this assignment.

Taylor's "A Spinster's Tale" is about a motherless, young girl named Elizabeth whose father and brother are both drunks. She also has a neighbor, Mr. Speed, who was a drunk too. Even though her brother was a drunk, Mr. Speed put a different kind of fear into her than he did. In fear that Mr. Speed would enter her house, she continually sat terrified at the window on a regular basis waiting for him to show up on her doorstep.

I'm anxious to see how we can play around with this short story using a social network. This story has a lot of material that we can work with.