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Mitchell Waldman
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in Chicago, IL, The United States
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Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers
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Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart
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2006
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The Visitor
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Wounds of War: Poets for Peace
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2010
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Hip Poetry 2012
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The Visitor
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A Face in the Moon
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Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers: Short Stories
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Peachfish Magazine Volume 1
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Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers
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New story at The Bookends Review
Thanks to Jordan and the staff at The Bookends Review for publishing my story "My Dad the Gangster" today.
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| This is a very creative, ambitious page-turner of a story as we follow the stories of a young woman--Spark--who comes from the outside world and makes her way to the Underground City in search of her lost brother, and Drill, a male rebel who wants to ...more | |
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| It was torture to get through this book about St. Theo. The writing sounds like that of an amateur writer who does not know the basics of writing. It is too long, saccharine, with over long descriptions, paper thin characters and has the author telli ...more | |
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"This is so far feeling like a mashup of The Bridges of Madison County and Silence of the Lambs. I'm on page 16. I hope it improves.
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""Sweetness" is not an attribute I admire in a novel. Hallmark greeting cards and movies, maybe, but not a novel I'm going to spend many hours reading. As a corollary to that, episodic good deeds don't create any conflict, and that's what a plot needs"
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| Death by Midnight is a fast-paced young adult thriller that keeps readers turning the pages. Sixteen year old Anna is a genius inventor, a geek who is bullied at school. One night she finds armed men in her house who kidnap her and her parents. They' ...more | |
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| Emily has been hurt over and over again by men, by her ex-Roger back in England, and once in Paris again and again finds herself in bad situations with the wrong men. She determines that all men want is a conquest, a sexual turn, and that's it. But a ...more | |
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“Sidney Hellman doesn't remember who he was the last time around, if there was a last time. But how can he? None of us do.
Still, there are clues.
For instance, he starts seeing things. Images of events from another life. Terrible images."
--From the story "The Monster Inside," included in BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS, the new story collection by Mitchell Waldman”
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Still, there are clues.
For instance, he starts seeing things. Images of events from another life. Terrible images."
--From the story "The Monster Inside," included in BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS, the new story collection by Mitchell Waldman”
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“It all started with a package placed on Borglund's doorstep at two o'clock in the morning.
But, no, really, it started before that, when tilting his head over the picket fence, the smell of gin strong on his breath, he told me about his father, how he had collaborated with the Nazis back in Holland. I was speechless, but I must have had a telling look on my face because he stood back a step and, with watery eyes, said, "What else could he have done? He had a family, seven children to support." His father had been a railroad employee, had helped the SS route trains to the death camps. To Borglund, he was like any other man trapped in a job he didn't really like. But it was different -- those trains were full of my people, my ancestors."
--From the story "The Nazi Next Door," included in the book PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART”
― Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart
But, no, really, it started before that, when tilting his head over the picket fence, the smell of gin strong on his breath, he told me about his father, how he had collaborated with the Nazis back in Holland. I was speechless, but I must have had a telling look on my face because he stood back a step and, with watery eyes, said, "What else could he have done? He had a family, seven children to support." His father had been a railroad employee, had helped the SS route trains to the death camps. To Borglund, he was like any other man trapped in a job he didn't really like. But it was different -- those trains were full of my people, my ancestors."
--From the story "The Nazi Next Door," included in the book PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART”
― Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart
“This used to be a great country. Not now. Not anymore.
I was laid off from the drugstore. Worked there almost thirty years. Worked my way up from the bottom, from Stock Boy to Manager, with little in the way of education -- I didn't graduate high school, was a semester shy when my dad got sick. I ran that damned place for the owner, Bud Wilkins. Then, when Bud retired, and had no one to carry on the business, this big chain bought him out and they discarded me like a badly worn sneaker."
--From the story "After the Layoff," included in forthcoming story collection BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS”
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I was laid off from the drugstore. Worked there almost thirty years. Worked my way up from the bottom, from Stock Boy to Manager, with little in the way of education -- I didn't graduate high school, was a semester shy when my dad got sick. I ran that damned place for the owner, Bud Wilkins. Then, when Bud retired, and had no one to carry on the business, this big chain bought him out and they discarded me like a badly worn sneaker."
--From the story "After the Layoff," included in forthcoming story collection BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS”
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“He wakes up in a different body.
Normally when it happens you don't remember all that came before, in the prior lives. But sometimes things get screwed up, there's a flaw in the machinery, and it doesn't work that way. Or maybe it isn't a mistake, it's done for a reason. As some believe, maybe there's a reason and purpose for everything.”
― The Visitor
Normally when it happens you don't remember all that came before, in the prior lives. But sometimes things get screwed up, there's a flaw in the machinery, and it doesn't work that way. Or maybe it isn't a mistake, it's done for a reason. As some believe, maybe there's a reason and purpose for everything.”
― The Visitor
“I’m here today to talk to you about a serious, very serious topic, and it concerns me and it concerns all of you. And you know what concerns you concerns me and visa versa. We’re all in this together and all that, you know, I’m here as President because you elected me to represent you, right, after all?” He smiles widely, tucks his head down against his chest, throws his arms out to his sides, and then the chants come, and he nods his head in mock humility, “Thank you so much, I don’t deserve it, really, do I?” and the applause comes louder this time, and he laughs, shakes his head and says, “Okay, okay, maybe I do. What can I say. We’re making this nation strong again, right? That’s what we’re doing!” And more cheers, and tossed beer cans, or, at least, that’s what Ash imagines. Then the large man with the artificial hair continues: “But on to what I’ve come to talk to you today, and I know I tend to go on, but it’s important, very, so, important. Something we all need to be concerned about. And you know what that is? Aliens.” The cheers rise again and someone yells out “Get rid of all the illegals!” and he nods, but then shakes his head, waves his arms, “Yes, yes, but no, that’s true, but not what I’m talking about this time. I’m talking about, you know, the other kind, what you call the real deal, the real thing, real aliens, like the kind that come from up there,” he says, pointing to the sky. And the cheers stop and it gets almost quiet in that parking lot.”
― The Visitor
― The Visitor
“Sidney Hellman doesn't remember who he was the last time around, if there was a last time. But how can he? None of us do.
Still, there are clues.
For instance, he starts seeing things. Images of events from another life. Terrible images."
--From the story "The Monster Inside," included in BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS, the new story collection by Mitchell Waldman”
―
Still, there are clues.
For instance, he starts seeing things. Images of events from another life. Terrible images."
--From the story "The Monster Inside," included in BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS, the new story collection by Mitchell Waldman”
―
“This used to be a great country. Not now. Not anymore.
I was laid off from the drugstore. Worked there almost thirty years. Worked my way up from the bottom, from Stock Boy to Manager, with little in the way of education -- I didn't graduate high school, was a semester shy when my dad got sick. I ran that damned place for the owner, Bud Wilkins. Then, when Bud retired, and had no one to carry on the business, this big chain bought him out and they discarded me like a badly worn sneaker."
--From the story "After the Layoff," included in forthcoming story collection BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS”
―
I was laid off from the drugstore. Worked there almost thirty years. Worked my way up from the bottom, from Stock Boy to Manager, with little in the way of education -- I didn't graduate high school, was a semester shy when my dad got sick. I ran that damned place for the owner, Bud Wilkins. Then, when Bud retired, and had no one to carry on the business, this big chain bought him out and they discarded me like a badly worn sneaker."
--From the story "After the Layoff," included in forthcoming story collection BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS”
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“It all started with a package placed on Borglund's doorstep at two o'clock in the morning.
But, no, really, it started before that, when tilting his head over the picket fence, the smell of gin strong on his breath, he told me about his father, how he had collaborated with the Nazis back in Holland. I was speechless, but I must have had a telling look on my face because he stood back a step and, with watery eyes, said, "What else could he have done? He had a family, seven children to support." His father had been a railroad employee, had helped the SS route trains to the death camps. To Borglund, he was like any other man trapped in a job he didn't really like. But it was different -- those trains were full of my people, my ancestors."
--From the story "The Nazi Next Door," included in the book PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART”
― Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart
But, no, really, it started before that, when tilting his head over the picket fence, the smell of gin strong on his breath, he told me about his father, how he had collaborated with the Nazis back in Holland. I was speechless, but I must have had a telling look on my face because he stood back a step and, with watery eyes, said, "What else could he have done? He had a family, seven children to support." His father had been a railroad employee, had helped the SS route trains to the death camps. To Borglund, he was like any other man trapped in a job he didn't really like. But it was different -- those trains were full of my people, my ancestors."
--From the story "The Nazi Next Door," included in the book PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART”
― Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart
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