Tag: outsider lit
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The Annotations of A. M. Stone
READ ME FIRST Hello, Mr. Josiah Fielder. In this packet you will find my only correspondence to you. As you can see, there is no return address. You will be pleased to know that your unwanted and invasive appearance on the front porch of my mother’s house a few months ago resulted in my moving…
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Song of the Morning
It’s been a long time since I tried my hand at poetry, but I recently came to an understanding that some of the best prose writers have historically been at the very least poetry enthusiasts if not poets in their own right. I have always been a huge fan of Keats. I return to his Ode…
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Vexed to Nightmare
[Author’s cope: I had this short bit from the future completed form of The Sleepwalker rolling around in my brain for a while, so I decided to write it down. I’m still not sure what I plan on doing with the final product once it’s done. I was considering making the completed novella the final…
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A Man Named Angel
[Author’s Cope: I am planning on opening each chapter with a segment from Eddy’s California Zero blog. Like California Future Motors, this serves as the opening vignette for chapter 2. This is also the last segment that I plan on posting online before I complete the rest of the draft.] The slogan Viva Vincé rests…
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Even Worms Dream
[Author’s cope: This is a very rough draft. I started writing this novel once before already and threw out 300 pages. I’ve considered many times that I will probably never finish it. My purpose for posting this is to force myself to make concrete progress that can receive direct feedback. Without this method, the temptation…
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California Future Motors
[This is a rough draft of the opening segment of my next untitled novel] Why didn’t I leave California? I think about the question often. It’s not born from one of those haunting missed opportunities of the past that branches off into the splendor of a ghost future that glows in the mind like the…
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Sleepwalker IV
[This is the last segment of The Sleepwalker that I will be posting. The entire work is going to be novella length, and I would like to leave most surprises for the completed version. Sorry for the bite-sized pieces, but It’s hard to find time to write as often these days.] It took a few…
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Sleepwalker III
[ This is the third segment of Sleepwalker. To start at the beginning, go here. This completes the segment that I plan on posting to the blog. The entire story will be included in Millennium Vol. 2 as a companion to Dream Catcher. I am currently working on finishing Sleepwalker and rewriting Dream Catcher. After…
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Last Clean One on the Streets [BtRL]
[This is a very short excerpt from my next novel. I’m still making very slow progress on it occasionally.] I first met Elcos years ago in my early days of surveying and interviewing the homeless for my social work. He always struck me as particularly exceptional to the typical determiners of the circumstance, the same…
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Sleepwalker I
[No, Marty! Why are you writing random sections of a project that probably won’t be finished until a year after the novel. What are you doing? What is wrong with you?] “What do you want to do with me?” “I want to talk, and that’s it.” He had designated the dream to be platonic, but…
Marty Writes 