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Ryan Masters

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Ryan Masters is a writer and poet from Santa Cruz, CA. He spent a decade on staff at the Santa Cruz Sentinel and The Monterey County Weekly. His poetry and fiction work have appeared in publications such as The Iowa Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, Gargoyle Magazine, The Portland Review, and Unlikely Stories. Above an Abyss: Two Novellas (Radial Books, 2018) is his first collection of fiction. He's a frequent contributor to The Surfer's Journal and former poet-in-residence for the City of Pacific Grove, CA. ...more

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Above an Abyss: Two Novellas

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The Wig

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A random dump of my words, music, and other questionable "art". It also contains my ongoing blog about living with wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains and enduring the Santa Cruz County Fire Fighter Academy as a volunteer firefighter for Zayante Fire Protection District. I created it as an alternative to the toxicity of social media. Open it. Delete it. Forward it along to some wei Read more of this blog post »
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William S. Burroughs
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ”
William S. Burroughs

Thomas Pynchon
“Dream tonight of peacock tails,
Diamond fields and spouter whales.
Ills are many, blessings few,
But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Let the vampire's creaking wing
Hide the stars while banshees sing;
Let the ghouls gorge all night long;
Dreams will keep you safe and strong.

Skeletons with poison teeth,
Risen from the world beneath,
Ogre, troll, and loup-garou,
Bloody wraith who looks like you,

Shadow on the window shade,
Harpies in a midnight raid,
Goblins seeking tender prey,
Dreams will chase them all away.

Dreams are like a magic cloak
Woven by the fairy folk,
Covering from top to toe,
Keeping you from winds and woe.

And should the Angel come this night
To fetch your soul away from light,
Cross yourself, and face the wall:
Dreams will help you not at all.”
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

Malcolm X
“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”
Malcolm X

Milan Kundera
“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being




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