Lisa Bunker

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Lisa Bunker

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Born
in Los Alamos, NM, The United States
April 10

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Lisa Bunker has written stories all her life. Before setting up shop as a full-time author she had a 30-year career in non-commercial broadcasting, most recently as Program Director of the community radio station in Portland, Maine. Besides Maine she has made homes in New Mexico, the LA area, Seattle, the Florida panhandle, and New Hampshire. She now lives in Sacramento, CA with her wife Dawn, an expert on anxiety in children and an author in her own right. Between them they have three grown children. From 2018 to 2022 Lisa represented the town of Exeter in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Her other active interests include chess, birding, choral singing, and playing the bass.

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Lisa Bunker Hi Andrea, thank you for your question! I'm intrigued that you found Felix's story to be as sad as you say. I can understand how it could resonate wit…moreHi Andrea, thank you for your question! I'm intrigued that you found Felix's story to be as sad as you say. I can understand how it could resonate with you that way. That said, my read is that while there is loss, there is also abundant hope and love, so I actually see it a happy story--real world happy, complicated mixy happy.

Regarding having a plan all along, I guess you could say that, mostly. When I'm writing stories I start with an idea--in this case, boy fused with alien, and facing either death or the loss of a friend--and then my characters come to life in my head and start pushing the narrative in new, unexpected directions. It's a messy organic process, and a lot of fun.

Thank you for reading!

Best wishes,

~Lisa~(less)
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“And then swooping back in again, even faster, one long incredible fall through the human-shape of me and this time down past where I don't know how to go any smaller and I find myself somehow looping around to out-past-too-big again; so that everything seems to fit inside the smallest place in me and vice versa. And then for a while I'm not sure if I am inside the universe or the universe is inside me. The only thing that seems for sure is that somewhere in all the dancing around of whatever it is that dances, there's a human-shape of me, with either everything inside of it or it is inside of everything, or somehow - don't ask me how - both at the same time.”
Lisa Bunker, Felix Yz

“and if you’re going to say chess pretty, you can save it chess pretty”
Lisa Bunker, Felix Yz

“them, she could see them. But for once it didn’t seem to matter. She was in costume, among welcoming hearts. At least for this little stretch of time, it felt safe to stop thinking about how she looked to the world. For once it felt like she could just be. Zenobia July took in and blew out three long breaths. She smiled at herself in the mirror, then smiled more at how pretty the smile was. She checked her costume one more time. She reached up and gently touched the beautiful old earrings her grandmother had given her. Then she put her shoulders back, lifted her chin, turned to the door, opened it, and stepped back out among the people she loved, to be with them and one of them, into the warmth and music and joy of what was starting to feel very much like a family.”
Lisa Bunker, Zenobia July

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“A gap will yawn, achingly, day by day, it will turn into a colossal pit, an abyss without foundation, a gradual invasion of words by margins, blank and insignificant, so that all of us, to a man, will find nothing to say.”
Georges Perec, A Void

“And my Black bird, still not quitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On that pallid bust -- still flitting through my dolorous domain;
But it cannot stop from gazing for it truly finds amazing
That, by artful paraphrasing, I such rhyming can sustain--
Notwithstanding my lost symbol I such rhyming still sustain--
Though I shan't try it again!”
Gilbert Adair, A Void

“Un rond, pas tout à fait clos, finissant par un trait horizontal: on aurait dit un grand G vu dans un miroir.”
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