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Christopher Marcus
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Print collection coming
My first print collection is coming in the new year!
It will feature all the stories in "Possibilities" and "Challenge" my two previous ebook collections and be completely updated and revised.
(These ebooks are no longer available.)
Stay tuned for news of the launch - early 2025!
It will feature all the stories in "Possibilities" and "Challenge" my two previous ebook collections and be completely updated and revised.
(These ebooks are no longer available.)
Stay tuned for news of the launch - early 2025!
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Possibilities (Depending on the Morning Sun # 1)
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Challenge (Depending on the Morning Sun #2)
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Depending on the Morning Sun
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Woman: Splendor and Sorrow: | Love Poems and Poetic Prose
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Woman: Splendor and Sorrow: | Love Poems and Poetic Prose
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| I’m not usually a poetry reader, but this one grabbed me (as did the collection “Passions” that I also purchased). There is an intensity and a beauty here that rarely seen, and that I wish I could emulate in my own (prose) writing. I don’t know if it ...more | |
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| If, like me, you are attracted to slightly melancholic - but also very beautiful - stories about people who long back to the old grandeur of tsarist Russia, but have to build a new life no matter their circumstances-then this linked short story colle ...more | |
"“People always tell you who they are if you just listen.” Alternative title ideas: “Oh Bob!” or “Talk Therapy in Small-Town Maine.” I’ve had a mixed experience with the Amgash novels, of which I’ve now read four. Last year’s Lucy by the Sea was my fa"
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“I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel … I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand. The novel has to have a coherence which I don’t see anymore in the lives around me.”
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“I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.”
― Olive, Again
― Olive, Again
“Because in February the days were really getting longer and you could see it, if you really looked. You could see how at the end of each day the world seemed cracked open and the extra light made its way across the stark trees, and promised. It promised, that light, and what a thing that was.”
― Olive, Again
― Olive, Again
“I am a free black man whose body is a testament to surviving unspeakable terror. I am a free black man, and although my memories are ancient, I am a map of new dreams; a cartography of a smooth-and-swift-with-the-scalpel imagination.”
― The Butterfly Jungle
― The Butterfly Jungle
“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
― Selected Stories
― Selected Stories
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Apr 23, 2022 06:19AM
Indexed Dubliners at linkedshortstories [dot] com [slash] dubliners. Finally. I like to shift between the classics and newer stuff. Really wish I had the time to read this soon, since I love Ulysses (does that make me special or just a masochist?!). Ah, well, maybe I will just make the bloody time!
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