Atwood Stories

"Morning, sleepyhead You've been resting for a while I swore that you were dead When you washed up on my isle Did you know you talk in your sleep? Tell me, though, who's Penelope? She's my wife Anyways, I've got all you could want here All you could need here Just you and me, my dear, my love for life Soon, into bed we'll climb and spend our time I'm not your man I'm what you want here I'm what you need here Just you and me, my love in paradise Now 'til the end of time From here on out, you're mine, all mine Hell no, I could kill you where you stand I'm no pet, I'm a married man Oh handsome, you may try But last I checked, goddesses can't die Goddess? You're adorable Bow down now to the immortal Calypso, here to entertain But fear not, I bring no pain 'Cause we've got All we could want here All we could need here Under my spell, we're stuck in paradise No one can come nor go, my island stays unknown No, no I don't belong here There's something wrong here I won't be drawn to love in paradise Not 'til the end of time, there is no way You're mine, all mine" Rose Cooper, the deaf daughter of Calypso and Newport socialite Jimmy Cooper, has spent her life balancing the glittering world of Orange County with the dangerous reality of being a demigod at Camp Half-Blood, where she slowly falls for Percy Jackson. After nearly dying protecting him during the Battle of Manhattan leaves her permanently deaf, Rose must navigate grief, identity, and love in a world that suddenly feels farther away than ever before.

When a national treasure results in a world war, seven siblings are left fatherless and struggling to survive. Sometimes, the root of your problem is also your solution. #Dear2114 contest submission.

"Please, miss I...I don't wish to die," he pleaded whole heartedly. She could sense the wobbliness in his voice as he swayed lightly on the extravagant porch. "Please." She hesitated for a moment and weighed her options. "Come quickly," she demanded. Cathleen was in a state of shock to say the least, but didn't want any man's blood to be on her delicate hands. ___________________________________________ Cathleen Atwood was raised in a loyalist home, which greatly disliked any of the rebels: whatever their cause may be. Very opinionated, Cathleen wants nothing more than to get the silly rebellion over with. Henry Chantley was partial to the American cause. A soldier at the age of 18, he was cocky and stubborn. He never dreamt that he would be stumbling up to the house of a loyalist, imploring the help of a rather prestigious girl. Both find themselves in trouble, and have to escape the grueling hand of the British. How will they survive this one?

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers . . . Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away . . . By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.

Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toronto's a lot further away than it used to be. Clio suggests that Okie transport Sumatra across the border, because family is family. But coaching Okie by cellphone isn't easy, and Clio has some zombies of her own to contend with. Luckily she has some garden tools. Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood team up for this unusual two-hander. Encompassing love, death, sex, and the meaning of family, The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home will surprise, delight, and convince you of the vital importance of keeping ready supplies of rhubarb and mini-wieners in your freezer at all times. The story unfolds beginning October 24.

In the 1970s, Troy joined the wave of hippies and draft dodgers going back to the land to enjoy the "simple life." When his attempts at homesteading fail as miserably as his attempts at love, Troy devotes his time instead to building life-size dinosaur replicas from the broken farm machinery that litters the Ontario countryside. The simple life indeed, until a young woman claiming to be his daughter knocks on his cabin door, and Troy is finally forced to admit that, far from simplifying his life, he had complicated it more than he ever realized. "Old Bones" won the Canadian Authors Association prize for best short story and was first published in the journal "Existere." Praise for The Wolves of St. Peter's: “This is the third novel by the Canadian team of Buonaguro and Kirk, and it’s the best so far. The setting is Rome, 1508, and Michelangelo is hard at work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The master’s houseboy and dogsbody is Francesco Angeli and it’s Angeli who spots a body floating in the Tiber. It wasn’t such an unusual sight in those days, but when the corpse is dragged in, Angeli is astonished to find that he knows the dead woman. The writers are adept at plotting and they make great use of the grand artists who were in Rome at the time, along with the streets, smells and the brothels they attended. There are also floods on the rise to add to the suspense as Angeli hunts for a killer and attends to genius.” --Globe & Mail

In 1966, before they were international sensations, Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter teamed up to create Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein — now a unique piece of cultural history. In a book that has only existed as an artist book of fifteen copies Charles Pachter set the poetry of Margaret Atwood to his beautiful and whimsical artwork. Produced originally on handmade paper made with materials found around his house, this is a rare work of art that should be read by anyone interested in the origins of these two great artists. This is exclusively available as an enhanced ebook for iPad and features an introduction by Margaret Atwood, a video interview with the artist, and audio of Margaret Atwood reading the poems.

Laugh at a man, go to jail. How the women in this particular institution find the hope and humor to get through their situation. Inspired by Desiree Fairooz, written for the @Hulu #myhandmaidstale contest.

"As a child, I was one of those who buried treasures in jars, with the idea that someone, some day, might come along and dig them up. I found similar things while digging in the various gardens I have made: old nails, old medicine bottles, fragments of china plates... That is what the Future Library is like, in part: it will contain fragments of lives that were once lived, and that are now the past. But all writing is a method of preserving and transmitting the human voice." There’s a secret book that no one will read for 100 years. It is a book from the future, so it hasn’t been published yet. It is kept in a locked room, in a Norwegian library. There is a sacred grove that will provide the paper for its pages. And there are 100 authors who will write its secret stories. 100 years. 100 stories. 100 different writers. This is the Future Library (Framtidsbiblioteket). It is being created by Scottish artist Katie Paterson for the city of Oslo in Norway. When Katie had to choose the first writer to contribute the first story, she named Margaret Atwood, prizewinning author, poet, essayist, literary critic, and Wattpad’s official Fairy Godmother. Read Margaret's thoughts about her involvement in the project here. *Watch Margaret on Periscope on May 26th 2015 to witness the live event, and stay tuned for a special Wattpad writing contest coming soon!*

When a woman is told of a secret plan within the United Nations to eradicate all women on the face of the planet, she seeks out the one behind the plans, and through one physical confrontation, learns the why and the how. This is my Handmaid's Tale entry, enjoy! Oh and I also want to thank Wattpad for messaging me about this contest because if they haven't I probably wouldn't have ever discovered this contest and entered in it. #MyHandmaidsTale

Why did you write MaddAddam, I’m sometimes asked?

Classic story of the ever famous Friend zone. Whats different is that the person in the friend zone is this 16 year old girl named Bailee. The guy she is falling for is her best friend of 14 years, Drew. When he tells her that he leaves for the army at the end of the summer what will Bailee do.

The title tells it all