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Travis Burnham

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Newburyport, MA, The United States

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Travis Burnham has been published in a number of short story venues and has some novels currently looking for homes. He's had the prerequisite bizarre list of jobs, such as custodian at a nuclear power plant, dishwasher, painter, ESL teacher, sleep study lab rat, and more.

He loves traveling and, in addition to visiting many countries, has also lived in Japan, Colombia, Malta, Montenegro, and the CNMI.

He's a science teacher who loves teaching and his students! He currently lives, writes, and teaches in Lisbon, Portugal.
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	Dark Little Dreams by Brett Reistroffer (Goodreads Author) (editor), M.P. Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fifty Flashes by Arthur Sanchez (Editor), Jean Mackintosh Goldstrom (Editor), George Nikolopoulos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Musette Journal: The Sin Eater by F.J. Bergman (Contributor), Ingrid Garcia (Contributor), Brandon Getz (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metaphorosis Magazine, Issue 95, November 2023 by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carol Wellart (Artist), Katie Cervenec (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fascination by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura VanArendonk Baugh (Goodreads Author), Alena Van Arendonk 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Speculative Teachers' Lounge: speculative stories by educators by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (editor), Mariah Montoya (Goodreads Author), Cameron Bertron it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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'That Dark, Sweet Magic'

Here's the preview reel of my flash fiction piece coming out in Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast. It's a story that originally came out with Flash Fiction Online. Listen to it here July.16.2026 or later: 'That Dark, Sweet Magic'

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

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The Meditations: An Emperor's Guide to Mastery

by Marcus Aurelius

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Blacktail

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Travis’s Quotes

“Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns?

Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you?

Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way.

Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?”
― Holly Black, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

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“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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“But now when I think about that night, I think about something my stepdad once said when my mom yelled at him for quitting AA. He just told her in this sad, quiet voice, "Sometimes the sickest part of me just seems like the truest part.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

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“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: creative-process, failure, motivational, persistence, writing

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