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Lee Martin
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Getting to spend my days doing what I love, which is working with language and story.
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The Bright Forever
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2005
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River of Heaven
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2008
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Break the Skin
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2011
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The Evening Shades
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2025
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Late One Night
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2016
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Quakertown
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2001
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From Our House
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2000
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Yours, Jean
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2020
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Such a Life
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2012
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The Mutual UFO Network
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Storytelling: A Few Lessons from Life to the Page
I’m snoozing for ten minutes before my alarm is set to go off when I hear my wife fall.
Lesson 1: A story begins with an inciting incident. Said incident is the beginning of a chain of events, none of which can happen without something to put the narrative into motion. So I begin with the moment when I hear my wife fall. Yes, this is a true story.
I find her on our kitchen floor. “I pass
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“The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
― The Bright Forever
― The Bright Forever
“You can pretend that your life is going on when really, all along, you’re trapped in a moment you’ll never be able to change.”
― The Bright Forever
― The Bright Forever
“When someone you love disappears, it's like the light goes dim, and you're in the shadows. You try to do what people tell you: put one foot in front of the other; keep looking up; give yourself over to the seconds and minutes and hours. But always there's taht glimmer of light-that way of living you once knew-sort of faded and smoky like the crescent moon on a winter's night when the air is full of ice and clouds, but still there, hanging just over your head. You think it's not far. Your think at any moment you can reach out and grab it.”
― The Bright Forever
― The Bright Forever
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