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All Our Tomorrows
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2025
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Incompleteness
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Penumbra
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2015
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4 editions
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Methuselah
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The Widening Gyre
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“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”
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"The story’s alternating chapters mirror memory itself: fragmented, looping, and quietly devastating. As Tessa obsesses over the fate of an ancient tree in a dying world, her fixation becomes a poignant metaphor for endurance and fragility: of nature,"
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"I'm a sucker for stories that center the evolution of language or mythology. I also love a good long-view post-apocalypse that shows people rebuilding on the ruins of the past. Basically, this book felt like it was written just for me, but I do hones"
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"As I read this compelling story, I thought often of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Like the Joads family, this book’s protagonist, Red, sets out in a harsh environment in search of belonging and fulfillment. Red’s is a spiritual quest in a wor"
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| I loved this collection so much that I blurbed it!! It's got everything you might want from a short story collection--blazing emotion, lingering memory, incredible tension, wonderful dialogue, and expertly crafted sentences. Some of the stories will ...more | |
“It seemed that it never stopped. That she was constantly doomed to always look to the future, her mind always skipping one step ahead, until it and she reached the inevitable end.”
― All Our Tomorrows
― All Our Tomorrows
“He was covered with ink, but this piece stood out to her. The script that flowed over his forearm said “If I could, I would. Baby, I swear I would.” She looked the words up later, thinking they were song lyrics, but found nothing that matched. Maybe the tattoo artist had meant to do lyrics but had gotten it wrong. Or maybe she was misremembering, or maybe they were pathless, lyrics to nothing.”
― All Our Tomorrows
― All Our Tomorrows
“But we will awaken too early, not to growth but to decay:
A dying chrysalis emerging into an endless dark.”
― Incompleteness
A dying chrysalis emerging into an endless dark.”
― Incompleteness
“It seemed that it never stopped. That she was constantly doomed to always look to the future, her mind always skipping one step ahead, until it and she reached the inevitable end.”
― All Our Tomorrows
― All Our Tomorrows
“He was covered with ink, but this piece stood out to her. The script that flowed over his forearm said “If I could, I would. Baby, I swear I would.” She looked the words up later, thinking they were song lyrics, but found nothing that matched. Maybe the tattoo artist had meant to do lyrics but had gotten it wrong. Or maybe she was misremembering, or maybe they were pathless, lyrics to nothing.”
― All Our Tomorrows
― All Our Tomorrows
“We all live this way; things fall apart and their corpses rot in front of us as we adapt to a lesser way of living.”
― Deliver Me
― Deliver Me
“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”
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