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Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev

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Born
in Krasnodar, Russian Federation
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Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev is a Russian American novelist who studied theology and philosophy at Whitworth University before obtaining his graduate degree in theological studies from Emory University. He is the author of numerous novels, including Of All Things Sacred, The Hack, Vanishing Bodies, This Time Next Summer, the fantasy children's book Olivia & the Gentleman from Outer Space, and the poetry collection A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems. He is currently working on his seventh novel F2F, a collection of poetry A Sparkle in the Sea, a collection of essays titled The End of Human, and a contemporary romance titled Notes on a Romance Novel. He is also an alternative rock musician; his debut album I Only Have a Hundred Years to

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Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev Hi, Dea! I suppose I could go with the answer many writers go with: I’m super special and have superpowers. But I think the truth is more boring than …moreHi, Dea! I suppose I could go with the answer many writers go with: I’m super special and have superpowers. But I think the truth is more boring than that! Mostly I begin with a scene or an idea. For Vanishing Bodies, it was a scene that’s no longer in the novel. Originally, the book was set in Harvard, and was a contemporary romance. I don’t enjoy writing contemporary romances (at least I don’t think I do!), and so, at some point in time, the novel began to lean toward science fiction. I will say in the original, ur-text the scene I eliminated was a student at Harvard committing suicide under mysterious circumstances. I couldn’t get the novel to work the way I wanted it to. One night after a miserable day of writing, maybe around two or three in the morning, I woke up and realized I had an epiphany, dream, vision, whatever—the student commits suicide and vanishes. So I went back and re-wrote the ur-text with that new vision. (I also changed the setting to Emory University per a friend’s recommendation—“Why Harvard? You never went to Harvard. F**k Harvard. This book needs to be set in Emory, where we actually went.”) So Emory it was. As for the rest of the novel, it took many rewrites and such to get it to where it’s at today. Nearly a decade of work, I believe. Hope you enjoy the ending. (less)
Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev Hi Mary! That’s a very thoughtful question; I hadn’t thought of doing a foreword. I suppose a foreword may help some people (or even most people). I’m…moreHi Mary! That’s a very thoughtful question; I hadn’t thought of doing a foreword. I suppose a foreword may help some people (or even most people). I’m not worried about the bad reviews, so don’t apologize for anything. I don’t want to change your opinion on the book. That would be a Vince Nilsson move. You can hate it—and that is perfectly fine with me.(less)
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The Hack

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“So why live, then?” she whispered. “Why make the effort? I’d rather just kill myself and have a clone keep on doing this—whatever this is.”

“Mars, you don’t mean that, do you?” I asked, concerned.

“I don’t know, Leo,” she murmured. “I just don’t know anymore.”

I wanted to reach out and fix her, to make her feel whole again, but I knew that there was little fixing I was capable of. I myself didn’t have the answers, or the solutions. I didn’t even know why I was here. How could I lie to my own sister and comfort her? She’d see right past the bullshit. So, I did the only thing I could. I hugged her tighter than before and said, “It’d be an awfully lonely sky without your shine.”
Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, Bodies: A Romantic Bloodbath

“So, when we finally reach that final stretch, may the promises made on our ever-hopeful lips be kept, and the summers we wish for be granted to us.”
Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, This Time Next Summer

“I light another cigarette. I'm starting to get nervous as fuck. I normally don't do pillow talk with girls I make love to. God, but I need this. Nobody really knows my story. They all think they do. I've buried the truth in a hurricane of words. That's really what I did. A novel every six months or so. Damn, I hide a lot.
"I don't know. I've tried replacing her with somebody else. Believe me, I tried. But I can't. I spent ten years of my life chasing her ghost. I try to find her in other women. It's unfair to them. That's why I just them home. I fuck them, love them, then I kick them out. I don't want them knowing.”
Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, The Hack

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“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”
Roald Dahl, The Witches

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Mark Twain

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.

—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”
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