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Sex & Other Acts of the Imagination
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My very first collection of stories and one that gained me some valuable attention, raised my profile...especially when people like Canadian literary great Timothy Findley took notice of the book and praised it highly. Sex & Other Acts of the Imagination features likely my most anthologized story, "Invisible Boy". A personal and cathartic work of fiction, it has long been a favorite of readers. The collection also includes some powerful post-holocaust/post-nuke offerings, written during the years when the entire world lived under the constant threat of annihilation. You'll find "The Hibakusha", "The Cattletruck" and "Apocalypse Beach", tales that contain real fear and anxiety. There's nothing contrived or fake about the Sex collection. It's intense, credible and pulls no punches. Out of print, near impossible to find,...
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My very first collection of stories and one that gained me some valuable attention, raised my profile...especially when people like Canadian literary great Timothy Findley took notice of the book and praised it highly.

Sex & Other Acts of the Imagination features likely my most anthologized story, "Invisible Boy". A personal and cathartic work of fiction, it has long been a favorite of readers. The collection also includes some powerful post-holocaust/post-nuke offerings, written during the years when the entire world lived under the constant threat of annihilation. You'll find "The Hibakusha", "The Cattletruck" and "Apocalypse Beach", tales that contain real fear and anxiety.

There's nothing contrived or fake about the Sex collection. It's intense, credible and pulls no punches. Out of print, near impossible to find, the book that got things started for me. It still holds a special place in my heart.

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"It's sunset.

You're sitting on the beach, sitting on the cool, white sand with your arms wrapped around your legs and your head is back and you're listening to the breakers and you're dying..."

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This was the book that convinced me I could be a writer.

This is the one that set me free.

About Cliff

I've been a professional author for more than 25 years and an independent publisher since 1990, when my first book, Sex & Other Acts of the Imagination, was released through an imprint my wife and I created.  That little publishing concern...

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Published Reviews

Mar.22.2008

"...an astonishing feat of fictive shape-changing...an amazement to behold. Cliff Burns plays his hand well and the whole book's a surprise well worth the reading."

Mar.30.2008

"At last Canada has found a literary equivalent to David Cronenberg."