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This is the story with the fantastic lies

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An open letter to Sean TaylorMay 8, 2015
Dear Sean, I thought I was a writer until I read your book. I thought I was creative until I read your book. Your playfulness with our language is a treat. I got a freebie version through BookBub, and I will buy this book. I want one that I can hold in my hand and reread passages. I want to underline sentences.

Some reviewer complained about formatting. Formatting can be fixed. Copy editing would be helpful. BUT formatting and editing...

I'm going to turn just inside out

This is what you had to say, when you knew, when you really found out for sure, that your mouth isn't actually dry when you go speechless, it's wet and ready.
In roughly three days 24,796 people downloaded Your Smallest Bones.
I can tell you, if I sold everything I owned, I'm not worth that much.
Who are these people? I grew up in a city of 36,000.
How many authors throw their numbers out of the window?
Hearing their book sales, exclaiming, I don't know, I never really understood math anyways.
It's...

This might be something worth hearing.

Today a company called Booksends alerted roughly 100,000 people via email that my book was available for free download onAmazon Kindleand as of 1:00pm 320 people have downloaded it.

Tomorrow a company called Bookbub alerts roughly 2,000,000 (two million) people via email that my book is free on Amazon Kindle.
Also tomorrow a company called Fussy Librarian alerts another 100,000 people via email that my book is free on Amazon Kindle.

Needless to say the Amazon page for my book will be seeing a lo...

A vow of silence like a hunger strike

Today Petrichor Machine released a beautiful fifth journal of poetry and prose featuring my story "The Burden of Legitimacy" I've ordered three copies myself and can't wait to see them.Click the text to buy a copy yourself. Also I'm reading at Quiet Lightning on Monday May 4th Click for details!

What we've wanted to be

Quiet Lightning to publish "When You're Caught" Quiet Lightning has been so kind to pick up a piece of quick fiction I wrote for their May issue of Sparkle and Blink. If you are in San Francisco on the night of Monday May 4th I highly suggest you come out to this event. It is being held in one of the last great bastions of the San Francisco artist community.
I for one am very excited to read atSan Francisco Institute of Possibility.
Facebook Event Info and Invite here
The accepted piece I will b...

LET'S UNRAVEL THE EDGE OF TIME

Can Mates of State cure the common cold? Will their upbeat and excitable vocals save Sean from the inevitable brain dead fatigue that such a illness bestows? I HAVE TO TELL YOU GUYS ABOUT THESE NEW PROJECTS! I am building, no procuring, I am curating and editing, I am co birthing a collection of poetry and prose with a good friend of mine.
The Book/Project is called Sweet Wolverine.
We are looking to make a book of nonstop brilliance, the magma in the mountain, the bones in the body, the core o...

Review- Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens

“What is that song, you sing for the dead?”

If we handled grief with simple exchanges, we would approach funeral parlors with delicate flutters, we would trade them in for truth. When made tangible those flutters may replicate the heart of a hummingbird. Then, when tangible, we would be given stones, for that truth.

This is what Sufjan Stevens does in his album Carrie & Lowell. He trades in flutters for truth, hummingbird hearts for stones. He does it with the softest hands. We can hear it,...

Wait for it...

I'm running this free ebook deal and I'm stumbling about shouting down the alleys of the internet when I found this anonymous adorable review on Barnes and Noble.

"A very interesting and heartwarming read. The short fictional stories remind me to appreciate the small things in life, and reading them brought a smile to my face. All the characters and the stories that revolve around them are unique and yet relatable. I find that kind of occurrence rare in books and kudos to the author for managi...

Was unaware of that word...

"Taylor often achieves his lapidary style through similarly unexpected but fitting conjunctions;" Lapidary;(of language) engraved on or suitable for engraving on stone and therefore elegant and concise.

Sustain, till you're warm, and safe.

Today was spent co-teaching at Los Altos High School with my two great friends Evan Karp and Charlie Getter. I think we taught them how to have fun with words, and produce something from seemingly nothing. I like to hope to think that if someone came into my sophomore or junior english class and showed me how loops and effects can challenge thought fragments it would be a good day.

Also I received an email regarding an upcoming book review asking if my name was Sean D. Taylor or Sean Taylor...