first-person | first-person
Dec.09.2012
Why would a story with an urban setting that takes place during the Christmas holidays hardly mention Christmas until amost the very end of the book:
"While I was walking, I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold...
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Sep.26.2012
I had a great exchange with another writer who wants to begin a magazine full of first-person stories in the vein of Morbid Curiosity, which I edited for 10 years.
His initial note, with identifying information removed:
"I'm studying journalism in Toronto. I was a big fan of your work...
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Aug.16.2012
Here are a couple of memorable passages:
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will simply try to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped...
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Nov.26.2009
My father, retired Classics Professor D L PIKE, has just self-published his memoir about life in the Rhodesian army during the 1970's. A compleat pacifist, my dad was thrust into a war he really didn't want to play a part in. The results were sometimes horrifying, sometimes funny - in...
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