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Mark Doyon

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in Washington, D.C., The United States

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Absurdist Fiction, Tragicomic Fiction

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Mark Doyon is the author of the tragicomic novel Deep Fried and the short story collection Bonneville Stories. He received a B.A. in English from the College of William & Mary and a master's in arts management from the Shenandoah Conservatory. He founded and published the fiction quarterly Friction. His work has been featured in PopMatters, The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, The Daily Vault, Hybrid, Skope, Neufutur, Groovevolt, Ear Candy, Modern Dance UK, Delusions of Adequacy, The Absinthe Literary Review, 3AM Magazine, and Riffraf.

"Deep Fried makes manifest all that fiction should do—transport, enlighten, stir reflection, and bring communities closer through our shared human experiences.” —The Bookish Elf ...more

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“She wondered if her father's guilt, accumulating all those years in airports and conference rooms and company cars, didn't draw that miniature Cessna to his heart like shavings to a magnet." -Mark Doyon, "Sooner or Later”
― Mark Doyon, Bonneville Stories

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“The more television Aaron watched, the less everything seemed to bother him. And he watched for hours, even days, with little or no respite, his eyes fixed singly on the glow of his twenty-inch Zenith, his feet propped on an ottoman, his bony arms hanging limply at his sides like strands of wet spaghetti." -Mark Doyon, "Early Out in Ohio”
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“Randy wondered if the coupling of a lonely divorcee and a garden naif would constitute the punchline to some cosmic lesson, if their amoral actions would embody for future generations the baser instincts of humankind. His head spun. His stomach turned. His loins sighed in mollification." -Mark Doyon, "Green Grow the Azaleas”
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