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Travis Burnham

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Travis Burnham has been published in a number of short story venues and has some novels currently looking for homes. He's had the prerequisite bizarre list of jobs, such as custodian at a nuclear power plant, dishwasher, painter, ESL teacher, sleep study lab rat, and more.

He loves traveling and, in addition to visiting many countries, has also lived in Japan, Colombia, Portugal, Malta, and the CNMI.

He's a science teacher who loves teaching and his students! He currently lives, writes, and teaches on the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro.
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	Dark Little Dreams by Brett Reistroffer (Goodreads Author) (editor), M.P. Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fifty Flashes by Arthur Sanchez (Editor), Jean Mackintosh Goldstrom (Editor), George Nikolopoulos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Musette Journal: The Sin Eater by F.J. Bergman (Contributor), Ingrid Garcia (Contributor), Brandon Getz (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flash Fiction Online August 2017 (Flash Fiction Online 2017 Issues) by Suzanne W. Vincent, Andrea Corbin (Goodreads Author), Travis Burnham (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metaphorosis Magazine, Issue 95, November 2023 by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carol Wellart (Artist), Katie Cervenec (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Speculative Teachers' Lounge: speculative stories by educators by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (editor), Mariah Montoya (Goodreads Author), Cameron Bertron it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The 100 Books of 2025

My goal every year is to read 100 or more books. I crossed the finish line this year with 104 books. I often will choose the top books, which I also did this year, but made it a little easier by breaking it up into fiction and non-fiction.

Top Ten Fiction of 2025

The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman

Spiderlight - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books - Kirsten Mill

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When I Was Death

by Alexis Henderson (Goodreads Author)

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Jesus’ Son

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Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)

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Travis’s Quotes

“Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns?

Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you?

Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way.

Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?”
― Holly Black, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

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“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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“But now when I think about that night, I think about something my stepdad once said when my mom yelled at him for quitting AA. He just told her in this sad, quiet voice, "Sometimes the sickest part of me just seems like the truest part.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

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“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: creative-process, failure, motivational, persistence, writing

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