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James Ferron Anderson

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Born
Dungannon, Ireland
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Charles Bukowski, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac

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I was born in Northern Ireland, where I worked as a weaver, glassblower and soldier. I moved with my family to England, took a degree in English Literature at UEA, and began to write poetry, short stories, plays and, more recently, novels. One of my first short stories, The Bog Menagerie, won the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award in my native Ireland. I won the Escalator Award in England with I Still Miss Someone. I am a Writers’ Centre Free Reads winner. All The Whole Wide World, another short story, was broadcast on Short Story Radio.
My novel The River and The Sea, a story of romance, jealousy and loss, set in British Columbia, Canada, at the end of WWI, won the Rethink Press New Novels Award in November 2012, and was published soon after
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Have you ever heard of lab assistant block? Teacher block? Carpenter block? Of course not. You do it and accept that some days you’ll do it better than others. Then re-write. And re-write. You’ll be doing that anyway.
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And to come back to that choice a week, a year, five years later, and still feel it was the right choice… that’s affirming. That’s good. Sometimes it happens.
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The River and The Sea

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TERMINAL CITY

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The Dangerous Edge of Things

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014
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Here’s a term it would be good to get used to: cognitive dissonance. Lots of it soon to be around in England and Wales, and a damned sight more in the US.


It goes like this:


You have a belief in something. It’s that a big man in the sky is watching you, or that you are a gifted singer on a TV talent show, or that Nigel Farage cares about you, or that multi-millionaire fascist and Putin a

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“Where has Arnold been?’ I said. ‘... the Westwoods get in the papers.’
‘Patting the orphans.’
‘Getting homes for the homeless.’
‘Legs for the legless.’ She was laughing as she said it.
‘Blind dogs,’ I said. ‘Dogs for the blind, that is.’
‘Patting blind dogs.’ We both laughed and drank. ‘Getting legs for them.’
‘Homes for legless, blind orphan dogs.’ Maybe we were both a little drunk, on bourbon or on the past.”
James Ferron Anderson, TERMINAL CITY

“A well-adjusted person wouldn't talk much. There's not a lot to be said about most of life. Most days, weeks, years, lives, nothing happens... and still we carry on chattering at each other.”
James Ferron Anderson, TERMINAL CITY

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“A well-adjusted person wouldn't talk much. There's not a lot to be said about most of life. Most days, weeks, years, lives, nothing happens... and still we carry on chattering at each other.”
James Ferron Anderson, TERMINAL CITY

“Where has Arnold been?’ I said. ‘... the Westwoods get in the papers.’
‘Patting the orphans.’
‘Getting homes for the homeless.’
‘Legs for the legless.’ She was laughing as she said it.
‘Blind dogs,’ I said. ‘Dogs for the blind, that is.’
‘Patting blind dogs.’ We both laughed and drank. ‘Getting legs for them.’
‘Homes for legless, blind orphan dogs.’ Maybe we were both a little drunk, on bourbon or on the past.”
James Ferron Anderson, TERMINAL CITY

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