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Eric Shonkwiler
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Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne Robinson, Jane Smiley, William Gay, Ernest
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Above All Men
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2014
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Moon Up, Past Full
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8th Street Power & Light
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The Sky Is a Free Country
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Moon Up, Past Full
Yesterday was the official publication date for Moon Up, Past Full, my collection of novellas and stories. I'm very proud of this book, and happy to finally see it in the world. You can purchase the book in a number of formats, as well as gift packages, at the following link: http://www.press.alternatingcurrentar...
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“One of the biggest sicknesses this world has is expectation. We all expect other people to be a certain way or to do a certain thing. Most people, they spend their whole lives under the wants of other people.”
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“You're just now getting desperate. When you're really down you won't have anything to say about pride....Pride's for rich folk.”
― Above All Men
― Above All Men
“He wanted to miss his wife, to be doing the simple thing, the heroic thing, to be ordered. He wanted to be there to wish he were home.”
― Above All Men
― Above All Men
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“One of the biggest sicknesses this world has is expectation. We all expect other people to be a certain way or to do a certain thing. Most people, they spend their whole lives under the wants of other people.”
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“He wanted to miss his wife, to be doing the simple thing, the heroic thing, to be ordered. He wanted to be there to wish he were home.”
― Above All Men
― Above All Men
“You're just now getting desperate. When you're really down you won't have anything to say about pride....Pride's for rich folk.”
― Above All Men
― Above All Men
“Whatever he pays me, it won't last longer than the land would. That land will always be there, for me and you, even your kids. The money would only be good for a little while. Things are tough now, but they'll turn around.”
― Above All Men
― Above All Men
“Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.”
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