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"We all of us fall into places irretrievable."
Lance Boyle,
Free From Hunger
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It's summer in San Francisco. Seemingly yesterday. And the fog obscures nothing at all. A man can feel himself to be of no consequence for only so long. The impetus for change could walk through the door at any moment. And change will come in a stroke of violence, freedom be damned. FREE FROM HUNGER is Philip Marlowe under the influence of James Ellroy, a feckless American society in the crosshairs either way.
THE DEATH OF HER

Clare knows there's something wrong with her. But what? And why? And for how long? She can give herself a lifetime of questions, or twenty four hours worth. Either way, the answers she seeks jealously hold themselves just beyond her understanding.
COME BACK, SIT DOWN: Twelve and One Stories
A collection of highly accessible, fable-esque renditions of an America often at odds with its better nature. Thoroughly contemporary, these stories tell of women and men living idealized and insular lives, only to awaken to harsh realities unwittingly created.

Below are three sample stories from the collection.
In A Mother's Son, a guilt ridden mother tries to come to terms with the memory of a son to whom she was a mother in name only.
In The Sh*t-end of the Stick, a luckless young man proves that stoicism is as virtuous as patience, the reward being goodness itself.
In A Fracas. At the Farkuses, a traumatized husband relays to his bedridden wife a harrowing, if not black-humorous tale of betrayal and retribution.
VICS & PERPS
America is chock-a-loc full of violence. However we justify it, it's part of our cultural identity, where simple-minded thinking virtue, money king, and the car the wings of promised freedom. In time, we'll be victims, because we're all perpetrators.

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A LANTERN IN DAYTIME

A lantern in daytime is useless. That's how Travers Vernon feels: holding a job for the sake of holding a job, good thoughts of no value to anyone, friends as original as the latest YouTube video. Then he meets Mae, wealthy, delectable and worthwhile. They get some funny ideas. Then the US economy comes to a grinding halt, everything withering except for those funny ideas. It's The Postman Rings Twice ringing one more time.


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