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What Never Happened: An Observation

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An observant boy goes to the park, returns home, and has a conversation with his mother in a fabricated, unlikely, never-happened, plausible, impossible, invented, realistic coming-of-age story. What Never Happened: An Observation, a short story, was first published in Waccamaw, Issue 7.From What Never Happened, An Observation:I was a boy. (Dear reader, for the last time I say to you, please ... Read more

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An observant boy goes to the park, returns home, and has a conversation with his mother in a fabricated, unlikely, never-happened, plausible, impossible, invented, realistic coming-of-age story. What Never Happened: An Observation, a short story, was first published in Waccamaw, Issue 7.From What Never Happened, An Observation:I was a boy. (Dear reader, for the last time I say to you, please
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Artifact Collective: An Attempt to Consciousness

by Nick Stokes ...

ARTIFACT COLLECTIVE is an attempt to create consciousness in a book. You begin. You are trapped in the dark under a great weight. You cannot move. His, her, their, our, your, and my consciousnesses take shape through speculation into your condition. Are you buried alive? Why? Are you alive? Are you accelerating through space in a you-shaped windowless vessel? What is your shape? Are you a flicker ... Read more

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ARTIFACT COLLECTIVE is an attempt to create consciousness in a book. You begin. You are trapped in the dark under a great weight. You cannot move. His, her, their, our, your, and my consciousnesses take shape through speculation into your condition. Are you buried alive? Why? Are you alive? Are you accelerating through space in a you-shaped windowless vessel? What is your shape? Are you a flicker
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Logos: or Good Morning

by Nick Stokes ...

They wake bounded in a nutshell. They wakes unbound in a river bound by a meadow sounded by a voice. I, voiced by you, wake in my living room. Inside me voices live. They live inside you. They want out. Good morning."Logos" is a fictional discourse of voice seeking agency."Logos" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA 4.0). ... Read more

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They wake bounded in a nutshell. They wakes unbound in a river bound by a meadow sounded by a voice. I, voiced by you, wake in my living room. Inside me voices live. They live inside you. They want out. Good morning."Logos" is a fictional discourse of voice seeking agency."Logos" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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The End: A Story of the Undead

by Nick Stokes ...

THE END is a story of the undead in the West. They ambiguously steal in an unknown act of defiance. You begin in the dark under an immense weight. They shut down their technology and slowly escape on horseback along the divide. You must move but cannot. They throw phones and sometimes die. You fall up. He goes to town, and she meets a bear. You rot and burn and reach out with your mind. Eyes ... Read more

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THE END is a story of the undead in the West. They ambiguously steal in an unknown act of defiance. You begin in the dark under an immense weight. They shut down their technology and slowly escape on horseback along the divide. You must move but cannot. They throw phones and sometimes die. You fall up. He goes to town, and she meets a bear. You rot and burn and reach out with your mind. Eyes
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You Choose

by Nick Stokes ...

You choose: You hear a scream (or not), and what do you do about it. Nothing or stay in your chair and figure out the who what when why or go out the front door and chase the scream to prevent it or create it or capture it. Within the book are choices and non-choices, choices masquerading as choices, labyrinths, your torture and your self-torture, your authorship, multiple worlds, you becoming ... Read more

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You choose: You hear a scream (or not), and what do you do about it. Nothing or stay in your chair and figure out the who what when why or go out the front door and chase the scream to prevent it or create it or capture it. Within the book are choices and non-choices, choices masquerading as choices, labyrinths, your torture and your self-torture, your authorship, multiple worlds, you becoming
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Rise, then Descend

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A modern dispossessed man climbs a sacred mound that an ancient native civilization builds. They descend. Rise, then Descend, a short story, was first published in Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 18 #1.From Rise, then Descend:"Did the ancients use walking sticks when climbing the mound? He's not sure what kind of man needs a walking stick to walk. You just move your feet one front of the other. An old ... Read more

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A modern dispossessed man climbs a sacred mound that an ancient native civilization builds. They descend. Rise, then Descend, a short story, was first published in Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 18 #1.From Rise, then Descend:"Did the ancients use walking sticks when climbing the mound? He's not sure what kind of man needs a walking stick to walk. You just move your feet one front of the other. An old
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Affair

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"A man wishes to write a novel in which one of the characters goes mad; while working on it he himself goes mad by degrees, and finishes it in the first person." (Kierkegaard, 1837)"Whether he himself in this way also went 'insane' is here of less importance than the fact that he now -- at last -- can operate in the first person, singular, present, indicative, active." (Joakim Garff, 1997)Affair ... Read more

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"A man wishes to write a novel in which one of the characters goes mad; while working on it he himself goes mad by degrees, and finishes it in the first person." (Kierkegaard, 1837)"Whether he himself in this way also went 'insane' is here of less importance than the fact that he now -- at last -- can operate in the first person, singular, present, indicative, active." (Joakim Garff, 1997)Affair
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1 Day

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A single mother teaches high school literature, parents her young son, and fights through a day. 1 Day, a novelette, was first published by the literary journal Prick of the Spindle.From 1 Day:"She thinks about making a new letter grade with the top paper on the stack and rolling a J, but she hasn't smoked pot in a decade and she has a dependent relationship with her job and she doubts it'd be the ... Read more

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A single mother teaches high school literature, parents her young son, and fights through a day. 1 Day, a novelette, was first published by the literary journal Prick of the Spindle.From 1 Day:"She thinks about making a new letter grade with the top paper on the stack and rolling a J, but she hasn't smoked pot in a decade and she has a dependent relationship with her job and she doubts it'd be the
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An End

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The last survivors of the Community fight to live and die in authenticity and love while Others thrive: an account of an end of our species. An End, a short story, was first published by Mixer Publishing.From An End:"When Matthew returned there were twelve. He found the eleven others pressed shoulder to shoulder under a corrugated metal roof like thick lines of Others waiting to plug in and make ... Read more

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The last survivors of the Community fight to live and die in authenticity and love while Others thrive: an account of an end of our species. An End, a short story, was first published by Mixer Publishing.From An End:"When Matthew returned there were twelve. He found the eleven others pressed shoulder to shoulder under a corrugated metal roof like thick lines of Others waiting to plug in and make
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The Possible: An Experiment Beginning

by Nick Stokes ...

You begin. She opens her eyes. They diverge and live through the expanding adjacent possible becoming. They encounter pandemic, climate change, social unrest, artificial intelligence. They face existential threat. Some of our futures end. Some of us ascend.The Possible is an experiment. The Possible is a beginning.The Possible is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 ... Read more

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You begin. She opens her eyes. They diverge and live through the expanding adjacent possible becoming. They encounter pandemic, climate change, social unrest, artificial intelligence. They face existential threat. Some of our futures end. Some of us ascend.The Possible is an experiment. The Possible is a beginning.The Possible is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0
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In the Enemy's Shadow

by Pam Crooks ...

Series Book 1.5 - Secret Six
The Spyglass Project is the first book of the Secret Six series set in the Prohibition era of 1920s Chicago, featuring Major Michael Malone as an alcoholic ex-military intelligence officer who infiltrates the city’s underground to expose a crime lord funding the rise of Adolf Hitler. The book opens with a Prologue set eight years earlier in a prisoner-of-war camp in Wittenberg, Germany, during ... Read more

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The Spyglass Project is the first book of the Secret Six series set in the Prohibition era of 1920s Chicago, featuring Major Michael Malone as an alcoholic ex-military intelligence officer who infiltrates the city’s underground to expose a crime lord funding the rise of Adolf Hitler. The book opens with a Prologue set eight years earlier in a prisoner-of-war camp in Wittenberg, Germany, during
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by Tor Ulven ...

Translated by Kerri A. Pierce ...

Series series Norwegian Literature
Tor Ulven is one of the most renowned Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, beginning his career writing poetry and ending it with unclassifiable explorations of the possibilities of prose, reminiscent of writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven's suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of unrelated ... Read more

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Tor Ulven is one of the most renowned Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, beginning his career writing poetry and ending it with unclassifiable explorations of the possibilities of prose, reminiscent of writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven's suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of unrelated
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