Dan Lukiv

She's Been so Grumpy, a fantasy for kids Dan Lukiv

Entitled Our Television is Weird, this work of fiction first appeared in The Canadian Children's Annual (1983).

Under the same title, as a book for children:

First Edition: HMS Press (London, ON), 1996; a book on disk.

Entitled "She's Been so Grumpy":

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021.

An excerpt

"Drat!" I said, peering out the window. I breathed on the glass and fogged it up. I wiped a circle, drawing a peep hole, and spied a soggy world. "The ground is wet, the air is cold, and I'm stuck inside," I complained.

"Morris," called my mother. I heard her rattling dishes in the kitchen. "Clean up those pots and pans."

"She's been so grumpy," I thought. "Ever since she brought Tommy, my new brother, home from the hospital, she's baggy-eyed, bad-tempered, and boring. Who needs a mother who never takes me to the zoo? Either she's nursing Tommy, cuddling him, or she's cooking or cleaning. Tonight she's cooking shepherd's pie. I hate shepherd's pie! And I'm getting sick of my brother's endless crying. His mouth ought to be corked."

The author

Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.