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T.L. Rese

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Rese has been imagining the fantastic since she was a child. She grew up wandering through myriad book worlds, and her taste for crazy tales eventually led to a BA in English from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. When she’s not writing about the impossible, she’s pursuing various interests, such as traveling, photographing, horseback riding, and piano playing; she especially enjoys sleeping and dreaming.

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T.L. Rese i get a lot of inspiration from my travels. most recently, i went to morocco to research my next novel.
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Spirit of a Kyrie

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Cave of Jewels

I was a [...] young boy around ten or twelve years of age. I escaped from my house and was running down the street, my arms stretched out at my sides like a bird. [...] I was free as I sprinted down that pavement. I tried several times to fly, and after the third try [...] I succeeded and rose into the sky, everything below me becoming tiny like toys.

I flew on, as though I were Superman - I might

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“Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.”
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“Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.”
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“Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.”
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“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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T.L. Rese Thanks, Rick. Likewise!


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Rick Barnett I never learned a blessed thing from success. Failure is my earnest teacher.
It is a pleasure and a privilege to be your friend, Theresa.

Rick


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