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So, who the hell is Michael Thomas and what the @#$% is THE LAST GENERATION?
THE LAST GENERATION can be a slow and difficult read. Yet, crafted exceptionally well due to a patience of years to compose, it's as unconventional and unique as I am. However, as an upshot to such unusualness, my work will most likely have a limited audience.
In an homage to "OL Blue Eyes" himself, "I did it, I did it my way". As, my entire literary career has been deposited into a solitary work, unshackled from those bounds of a writing school formula. Yet, in so doing, I'm an outsider, attempting to scale that wall to the castle.
An exceedingly simplistic description to an extremely complex work, but, hey, hunger necessitates that I present a refection upon your plate. So, with that expectation for those childhood years to progress in the same Manor, Seth's path was altered by a bullet (of mental health) so forceful, that Mother was pressed to deliver Seth to a facility that will eventually extract the innocence of who he was, and can no longer be.
While at Epidaurus, Seth will become entangled to those residents (of multifarious peculiarities) with far more diverse bullets impeding their transitions into maturity than his own. Yet, they'll assist Seth in that metamorphosis to whom he shall ultimately become, and what he must do.
Seth, Jo-Jo, Pregnant Mary, Pez D Spenser, the Preacher, Peter the Rock, Mad Mike, Ollie Crums: the multifarious peculiarities at Epidaurus.
Oh, who I be?
Be I a ray?
A flea?
That tick of oddity?
Oh, who I be?
A whim?
That glee?
Those tiffs with tragedy?
Perhaps, you be peculiar enough? Possibly, you be curious, compassionate enough? Perhaps, possibly, you be participant in this evolution, this evolution to legit lit?
If you're presently not gripped, I presume those moments to captivate your attention shall only further fade. So, my appreciation for being that receptacle for my voice, and any possible considerations towards my work, with a big hug of gratitude should that receptacle become a megaphone, so that THE LAST GENERATION may settle into its communities (I'm literally giving my work away on my website, both my novel and my short story/blog series - please, if you can spare a few moments, check out my website on the link below, as it reflects who I am and what my work is all about).
https://thelastgeneration.info/
Michael Thomas