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Disappearing Things: Selected Flash Fiction
"Robert Pope's latest collection offers a beautifully rendered selection of short stories in which reality and dreams overlap in a most captivating way. Pope is an accomplished author whose love of language is clear. He uses it with precision and poise to create fiction which may be funny, dark, often wild, and always original. Be ready to meet some quirky protagonists facing challenging moments in their lives. Compelling enough, one might say, but then you'll be taken to some surprising and quite unexpected places—every time. An impressive book I wholeheartedly recommend." Laura Black Editor, Fictive Dream These stories are mindscapes where the ancient past overlaps the present future, where ghosts co-exist with the living, where dream has encroached upon reality. The results are funny if you tilt your head one way or the other. Otherwise, they are somber reminders of ourselves.
140 pages, Paperback
Published March 6, 2023
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Robert Pope
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Robert F. Pope, Jr. attended graduate school at California State University at San Diego, where he received his MA in English and taught courses in Freshman Composition and Creative Writing. He attended and graduated from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop in fiction, where he taught literature courses. By this time he had published short stories in various literary magazines, including Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Iowa Review, as well as a handmade chapbook of stories called Imagine a Moment, printed by Leigh McLellan and The Meadow Press.
He wrote and waited tables for a year before taking a position as a professor at the University of Akron, which is now part of the NEOMFA program. Pope has taught literature and writing courses for both graduate and undergraduate students. During the time he has worked there, he has published fifty stories and essays, as well as a novel, Jack's Universe and a collection of stories, Private Acts. [wikipedia]
Robert F. Pope, Jr. attended graduate school at California State University at San Diego, where he received his MA in English and taught courses in Freshman Composition and Creative Writing. He attended and graduated from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop in fiction, where he taught literature courses. By this time he had published short stories in various literary magazines, including Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Iowa Review, as well as a handmade chapbook of stories called Imagine a Moment, printed by Leigh McLellan and The Meadow Press.
He wrote and waited tables for a year before taking a position as a professor at the University of Akron, which is now part of the NEOMFA program. Pope has taught literature and writing courses for both graduate and undergraduate students. During the time he has worked there, he has published fifty stories and essays, as well as a novel, Jack's Universe and a collection of stories, Private Acts. [wikipedia]
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