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Dwight Okita
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Emerging novelist with roots in poetry.
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This is amazing. Writers, paste in some paragraphs of your novel to have it cyber-analyzed. The software I WRITE LIKE will tell you which famous writer you most write like, based on your language, phrasing, etc. Mine told me that I write like Chuck Palahniuk, which I take as a great compliment! I enjoy... Read more of this blog post »
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The Prospect of My Arrival
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Crossing with the Light
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The Radiance of a Thousand Suns: The Hiroshima Project: A Drama with Music
by Anne V. McGravie, Nicholas A. Patricca, Martin Harwit — published 1998 |
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“I had a dream the other night,” Prospect says. He looks at Lito. “You were in it.”
“I was?” The young man is clearly flattered.
“Yes, you were.”
“What happened. In the dream?”
“We were wandering through the cafeteria of Infinity in the middle of the night. It was dark and scary, so we opened a door and started climbing the stairs. The stairs went on forever but finally we got to the top. We were at a special place high above the city.”
“Cool. Were there time travel machines and Cyborgs and cool shit like that?”
“No Cyborgs. We were on the rooftop of Infinity. We looked out over the sparkling city. It was beautiful. We wanted to be part of it all. And so we did what we thought we had to do: we jumped.”
“Oh man. Dang. Did we splatter on the sidewalk?”
“We didn’t fall. We hovered. And then we flew.”
“We flew? Sweet.”
This is Prospect’s final gift to Lito. A story about the two of them. A story about the future.”
― Dwight Okita
“I was?” The young man is clearly flattered.
“Yes, you were.”
“What happened. In the dream?”
“We were wandering through the cafeteria of Infinity in the middle of the night. It was dark and scary, so we opened a door and started climbing the stairs. The stairs went on forever but finally we got to the top. We were at a special place high above the city.”
“Cool. Were there time travel machines and Cyborgs and cool shit like that?”
“No Cyborgs. We were on the rooftop of Infinity. We looked out over the sparkling city. It was beautiful. We wanted to be part of it all. And so we did what we thought we had to do: we jumped.”
“Oh man. Dang. Did we splatter on the sidewalk?”
“We didn’t fall. We hovered. And then we flew.”
“We flew? Sweet.”
This is Prospect’s final gift to Lito. A story about the two of them. A story about the future.”
― Dwight Okita
“A chrome spiral staircase connects the main floor to the upper one. It reminds Prospect of a big strand of DNA. Once he's out of the shower, he feels new. He opens a window. The gentle hush of traffic is surprisingly soothing. It is like putting a seashell to his ear, but instead of hearing an ocean, he hears a city and all its voices.”
― Dwight Okita, The Prospect of My Arrival
― Dwight Okita, The Prospect of My Arrival
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“A chrome spiral staircase connects the main floor to the upper one. It reminds Prospect of a big strand of DNA. Once he's out of the shower, he feels new. He opens a window. The gentle hush of traffic is surprisingly soothing. It is like putting a seashell to his ear, but instead of hearing an ocean, he hears a city and all its voices.”
― Dwight Okita, The Prospect of My Arrival
― Dwight Okita, The Prospect of My Arrival
“I had a dream the other night,” Prospect says. He looks at Lito. “You were in it.”
“I was?” The young man is clearly flattered.
“Yes, you were.”
“What happened. In the dream?”
“We were wandering through the cafeteria of Infinity in the middle of the night. It was dark and scary, so we opened a door and started climbing the stairs. The stairs went on forever but finally we got to the top. We were at a special place high above the city.”
“Cool. Were there time travel machines and Cyborgs and cool shit like that?”
“No Cyborgs. We were on the rooftop of Infinity. We looked out over the sparkling city. It was beautiful. We wanted to be part of it all. And so we did what we thought we had to do: we jumped.”
“Oh man. Dang. Did we splatter on the sidewalk?”
“We didn’t fall. We hovered. And then we flew.”
“We flew? Sweet.”
This is Prospect’s final gift to Lito. A story about the two of them. A story about the future.”
― Dwight Okita
“I was?” The young man is clearly flattered.
“Yes, you were.”
“What happened. In the dream?”
“We were wandering through the cafeteria of Infinity in the middle of the night. It was dark and scary, so we opened a door and started climbing the stairs. The stairs went on forever but finally we got to the top. We were at a special place high above the city.”
“Cool. Were there time travel machines and Cyborgs and cool shit like that?”
“No Cyborgs. We were on the rooftop of Infinity. We looked out over the sparkling city. It was beautiful. We wanted to be part of it all. And so we did what we thought we had to do: we jumped.”
“Oh man. Dang. Did we splatter on the sidewalk?”
“We didn’t fall. We hovered. And then we flew.”
“We flew? Sweet.”
This is Prospect’s final gift to Lito. A story about the two of them. A story about the future.”
― Dwight Okita
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Hey Dwight, I just bought your book! I'm looking forward to reading it, the plot sounds great! (I promised not to buy books for a year, but yours wasn't in my libraries.)