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Stephen R. Brown

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in Gastonia, NC, The United States
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Stephen R. Brown is a philosopher and storyteller who writes novels that explore what it means to be human. He has published two novels, The Condition and Milligan and the Preacher.

He is also the editor of The Novel: A Work in Prose by John R. Milligan.

He spends his spare time walking his dog and wondering when everything got so weird or was it always like this and he's just now noticing.
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Average rating: 3.17 · 12 ratings · 5 reviews · 3 distinct works
Moral Virtue and Nature: A ...

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Why write? To destroy the enemy.

The writer begins. Maybe the writer is you. Maybe it is I. Maybe it is all of us. They/she/he begins. It is inevitable. The words pour out. There are no ulterior motives, folks, this is writing for its own sake. It is the doing of it.

It, I tell you!

If only. The writer’s nagging conscience—like a squirrel on the fence in the backyard, saying, “I got your walnuts right here, buddy!”—beckons. We got

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