A very old man with enormous wings lands in our chicken coop.
Pelayo and Elisenda.
100
I'm an old Southern Belle who (may have) poisoned her beau.
Emily Grierson
100
"The art of losing isn't hard to master."
Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art"
100
My name was drawn in the lottery.
Tessie Hutchinson.
100
This American author of short stories and novels about the South borrows from the myth of Harpocrates, the Greek god of silence, who stumbled upon Venus while she was with a handsome youth.
William Faulkner
200
I'm the village priest who is among the first to inspect the very old man with enormous wings.
Father Gonzaga
200
I finally get to leave the Grierson household when the
townspeople discover a body rotting in my employer's room, as though the revelation of this dark secret has, at last, set me free.
Tobe
200
"What did I know, what did I know / of love's austere and lonely offices?"
Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
200
Someone hands me a few pebbles to throw at my Mom.
Davy Hutchinson
200
This Greek playwright took issue with the philosopher Thales of Miletus, who rejected mythological explanations of the world in favour of logic and knowledge.
Sophocles
300
I'm a part of a travelling carnival. My parents turned me into this type of insect for disobeying them.
A spider.
300
I'm a Northerner who landed a contract to build sidewalks in the town of Jefferson. Things don't end all that well for me.
Homer Barron
300
"As for the two boys, it's back to the same old debate: / is it something in the mind / that grows from birth, like a seed, or is it society / makes a person that kind?"
Simon Armitage's "Killing Time"
300
A round-faced jovial man, I'm responsible for conducting the lottery each year.
Mr. Summers
300
This self-educated American author turned her experiences with postpartum depression into her most memorable story, "The Yellow Wallpaper."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
400
A Portuguese man who couldn't sleep because of the noise of the stars disturbed them, a sleepwalker who got up in the night to undo the things he had done while awake, and many others with less serious ailments are all pilgrims who visit this figure in hopes of being cured.
The angel.
400
The major of Jefferson, I paid Emily's taxes when she refused to do so.
Colonel Sartoris
400
"This thou perceives, which makes thy love more strong, / To love that well which thou must leave ere long."
William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73"
400
I complain bitterly about how "young folks" are a "pack of crazy fools" who have no respect for tradition.
Old man Warner.
400
This American poet was interned when American forces liberated Italy near the end of World War Two. A key figure of the Imagist movement and modern poetry as a whole, he narrowly escaped treason charges by pleading insanity.
Ezra Pound
500
When I listened to the angel's heart, I heard the whistling of the wind. But what surprised me the most was the logic of his wings.
The doctor.
500
I'm a racist judge who dismisses complaints about the stench emanating from Emily's property.
Judge Stevens.
500
"My candle burns at both ends / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- / It gives a lovely light."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
500
Because my son is not yet sixteen, I have to fill in for my husband Clyde this year because he broke his leg.
Mrs. Dunbar.
500
Best known for her short poem "We Real Cool," this American poet's career coincided with the civil rights movement in the U.S. She was the first black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.