Tag: short stories
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (Dead Letters)
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll occasionally be posting previews from the 17 stories in my new short story collection, Before and Afterlives. If you like what you read, take a hop over to your favorite online bookseller and purchase either the print book or the e-book, and leave a review when you’re finished…
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Before and Afterlives Arrives
My first full length short story collection, Before and Afterlives, released this week! I’m sort of over the top excited by that, because since I was a teenager, I imagined my first book being a collection of short stories, something in the vein of Ray Bradbury or Shirley Jackson, but contemporary in style and setting. They…
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Writing with Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning is the third artist I discovered in this paper-doll of a writing project I took on back in the early 2000s. Just as I discovered Leonora Carrington’s art via her fiction, and then Remedios varo via a biography of Carrington, I found Dorothea Tanning by way of her relationship with Carrington’s former lover,…
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Writing with Remedios Varo
I stumbled upon Remedios Varo‘s art by accident. A happy accident. While I was in grad school (the first time, back in the early 2000s), I came across a surrealistic novel by Leonora Carrington called The Hearing Trumpet. The book’s cover was amazing: So I looked into the cover artist’s background. It turned out that the…
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The Birthday of Birds and Birthdays
Birds and Birthdays has officially released into the wild. It’s been available directly from the publisher for the past couple of weeks, but will be appearing in other marketplaces now, like Amazon.com (where they say it’ll take 1 to 3 weeks to get the book, but that’s only because they’ve just recently placed orders for stock with the publisher…