{"id":16039,"date":"2024-03-09T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T22:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=16039"},"modified":"2024-03-20T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:32:25","slug":"the-musics-gonna-get-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/03\/09\/the-musics-gonna-get-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Music&#8217;s Gonna Get You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-social-links-is-layout-765c4724 wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61556140010887\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 2C6.5 2 2 6.5 2 12c0 5 3.7 9.1 8.4 9.9v-7H7.9V12h2.5V9.8c0-2.5 1.5-3.9 3.8-3.9 1.1 0 2.2.2 2.2.2v2.5h-1.3c-1.2 0-1.6.8-1.6 1.6V12h2.8l-.4 2.9h-2.3v7C18.3 21.1 22 17 22 12c0-5.5-4.5-10-10-10z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-instagram  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/boudin_mcneese\/\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12,4.622c2.403,0,2.688,0.009,3.637,0.052c0.877,0.04,1.354,0.187,1.671,0.31c0.42,0.163,0.72,0.358,1.035,0.673 c0.315,0.315,0.51,0.615,0.673,1.035c0.123,0.317,0.27,0.794,0.31,1.671c0.043,0.949,0.052,1.234,0.052,3.637 s-0.009,2.688-0.052,3.637c-0.04,0.877-0.187,1.354-0.31,1.671c-0.163,0.42-0.358,0.72-0.673,1.035 c-0.315,0.315-0.615,0.51-1.035,0.673c-0.317,0.123-0.794,0.27-1.671,0.31c-0.949,0.043-1.233,0.052-3.637,0.052 s-2.688-0.009-3.637-0.052c-0.877-0.04-1.354-0.187-1.671-0.31c-0.42-0.163-0.72-0.358-1.035-0.673 c-0.315-0.315-0.51-0.615-0.673-1.035c-0.123-0.317-0.27-0.794-0.31-1.671C4.631,14.688,4.622,14.403,4.622,12 s0.009-2.688,0.052-3.637c0.04-0.877,0.187-1.354,0.31-1.671c0.163-0.42,0.358-0.72,0.673-1.035 c0.315-0.315,0.615-0.51,1.035-0.673c0.317-0.123,0.794-0.27,1.671-0.31C9.312,4.631,9.597,4.622,12,4.622 M12,3 C9.556,3,9.249,3.01,8.289,3.054C7.331,3.098,6.677,3.25,6.105,3.472C5.513,3.702,5.011,4.01,4.511,4.511 c-0.5,0.5-0.808,1.002-1.038,1.594C3.25,6.677,3.098,7.331,3.054,8.289C3.01,9.249,3,9.556,3,12c0,2.444,0.01,2.751,0.054,3.711 c0.044,0.958,0.196,1.612,0.418,2.185c0.23,0.592,0.538,1.094,1.038,1.594c0.5,0.5,1.002,0.808,1.594,1.038 c0.572,0.222,1.227,0.375,2.185,0.418C9.249,20.99,9.556,21,12,21s2.751-0.01,3.711-0.054c0.958-0.044,1.612-0.196,2.185-0.418 c0.592-0.23,1.094-0.538,1.594-1.038c0.5-0.5,0.808-1.002,1.038-1.594c0.222-0.572,0.375-1.227,0.418-2.185 C20.99,14.751,21,14.444,21,12s-0.01-2.751-0.054-3.711c-0.044-0.958-0.196-1.612-0.418-2.185c-0.23-0.592-0.538-1.094-1.038-1.594 c-0.5-0.5-1.002-0.808-1.594-1.038c-0.572-0.222-1.227-0.375-2.185-0.418C14.751,3.01,14.444,3,12,3L12,3z M12,7.378 c-2.552,0-4.622,2.069-4.622,4.622S9.448,16.622,12,16.622s4.622-2.069,4.622-4.622S14.552,7.378,12,7.378z M12,15 c-1.657,0-3-1.343-3-3s1.343-3,3-3s3,1.343,3,3S13.657,15,12,15z M16.804,6.116c-0.596,0-1.08,0.484-1.08,1.08 s0.484,1.08,1.08,1.08c0.596,0,1.08-0.484,1.08-1.08S17.401,6.116,16.804,6.116z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>The Music&#8217;s Gonna Get You<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Margo Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Caitlin saw him from across the tavern. He was at least ten years older than she, maybe more.&nbsp; His dark hair grew in waves to his shoulders; his five o\u2019clock shadow was sexy. He strummed his guitar with such purpose. Long pale fingers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His gaze fell upon Caitlin, and she forced herself to hold his gaze in return. She\u2019d seen how to respond in a movie, where the leading lady locked her eyes upon her romantic interest\u2019s eyes just until it was uncomfortable, and then she looked away. Demurely.&nbsp; Once Caitlin dropped his gaze, she allowed it to rest on his fingers kissing the strings. She knew a musician would notice that she was following his strokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When it was her turn to play with a different band, she took her cello from its case and straddled it. Her impossibly long legs wrapped around it, even though her mother had always said she should wear a floor length dress and keep her legs closed, resting the cello across her lap, tonight her knees peeked out behind her ripped jeans. &nbsp; The banjo player stood to her left; the fiddler to her right. The Irish dirge had the audience teary eyed. Caitlin secretly blessed her mother for insisting she learn to play the cello; she arched her back and leaned into the instrument. Her man watched it all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In less than a year, Caitlin promised to marry him and take care of his two children from another woman.&nbsp; Eventually she would be able to call that woman the first wife. She didn\u2019t like the stigma of being the second, but she knew he loved her in a way he\u2019d never loved the first. Caitlin knew that it was fate. She wasn\u2019t going to do anything that made her appear an evil stepmother.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She and her man played music all over town, singing and grabbing kisses. She rocked the baby against her bosom, and took the toddler to the park, pushing the swings ever higher. She kept herself pretty, open, loving against all odds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>___________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Playlist song:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/2DGL2kl6olesM3rnA0rZ6N?si=db16a2b031e44d4e&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=b8920d324dbf4a26\">Sinead O&#8217;Connor, &#8220;Nothing Compares 2 U&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Margo Williams<\/strong> holds an MFA in writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College. Williams studied playwriting and set design at Harvard and interned at <em>The Atlantic Monthly Magazine<\/em>. Her publications include an anthology (<em>The Big Picture<\/em>) and literary magazines: <em>Glimmer Train<\/em>, <em>Prick of the Spindle<\/em>, <em>Moonshine Review<\/em>, <em>Southeast Review<\/em>, <em>Beacon Street Review<\/em>, <em>O: J&amp;L<\/em> and more. She is a produced playwright (2008-<em>Snake Oil<\/em>) and an artist in residence at Elsewhere Studios and Hambidge Center. Her poems have been created into performance pieces or short films at Ars Poetica and Blue Sage Center. Her ekphrastic collection of flash fiction entitled <em>Falling In Love Like Little Girls Fall in Love<\/em>, includes twenty stories based on Carolyn DeMeritt\u2019s photo series of pubescent girls, exhibited alongside the photos that inspired the stories at Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum and at the Wilma Daniel&#8217;s Art Gallery. Currently she is working on a memoir and a novel and serves as the Chair of English at Cape Fear Community College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"> \ud83e\udca0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/03\/09\/little-by-little\/\">Back<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/03\/09\/recital-in-black\/\">Next<\/a> \ud83e\udca1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To learn more about submitting your work to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em> or applying to McNeese State University&#8217;s Creative Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Music&#8217;s Gonna Get You Margo Williams __________ Caitlin saw him from across the tavern. He was at least ten years older than she, maybe more.&nbsp; His dark hair grew in waves to his shoulders; his five o\u2019clock shadow was sexy. He strummed his guitar with such purpose. Long pale fingers.&nbsp; His gaze fell upon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[75,146,198],"class_list":["post-16039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-music-espressivo-24","tag-boudin","tag-fiction-2","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16430,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16039\/revisions\/16430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}