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Tom Deaderick
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The Lost Cove and Bumpas Cove
Although Flightsuit is a science-fiction novel, it's set in a combination of actual places with their own interesting histories. The abandoned iron-mining village is based on The Lost Cove between Erwin, Tennessee and Poplar, North Carolina.
In the story, I set the Lost Cove's abandoned village down inside the mountains of another real place, Bumpas Cove, Tennessee.
Bumpas Cove is a beautiful rive Read more of this blog post »
In the story, I set the Lost Cove's abandoned village down inside the mountains of another real place, Bumpas Cove, Tennessee.
Bumpas Cove is a beautiful rive Read more of this blog post »
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“Ethan’s voice was choked. “I realize now, what my father felt. When I left home. He must have felt as if everything was ending. That everything he knew was finishing. I wasn't even aware of what he was going through, how it felt for him. I was so caught up in the excitement of moving out and having a job that would buy me a car. I was so eager to leave. His heart was breaking, and I totally missed it. I was completely unaware that his whole world was changing too. But for him it wasn't gaining, it was losing. He was losing part of himself. The part of his life that had focused on me and my mother for seventeen years was ending, and I never even noticed.”
For a moment, Leo thought Ethan was about to ask him to stay. If he does, I will, Leo thought.
Ethan took a deep breath. “But hard as it is. It can’t be stopped. Can’t be sidestepped. No matter how much we want to or how fearful the future looks, we can’t stay frozen in place. You can go forward or you can try to hold on. I've seen people that were afraid to let go, that never committed to their life. You can feel the desperate regret emanate from them. They know they missed something, but instead of jumping on the next train, they keep looking back for the one they missed.”
― Flightpack
For a moment, Leo thought Ethan was about to ask him to stay. If he does, I will, Leo thought.
Ethan took a deep breath. “But hard as it is. It can’t be stopped. Can’t be sidestepped. No matter how much we want to or how fearful the future looks, we can’t stay frozen in place. You can go forward or you can try to hold on. I've seen people that were afraid to let go, that never committed to their life. You can feel the desperate regret emanate from them. They know they missed something, but instead of jumping on the next train, they keep looking back for the one they missed.”
― Flightpack
“He was like a farmer's hammer, beaten and bent, and broken more than once, but welded back, bent by force of will back into place, still useful because it still could be made useful.”
― Flightspawn
― Flightspawn
“Kids are expert negotiators. When you've never had a job and have no income, you'd better be a good negotiator.”
― Flightspawn
― Flightspawn
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"Bleak as the scene was, though, there was growing joy in Inman's heart. He was nearing home; he could feel it in the touch of thin air on skin, in hi ...more
