The Streetwise Cycle

by Bronwyn Mauldin

The Streetwise Cycle is a series of nine interconnected stories about people living unexpectedly interconnected lives on the streets of Los Angeles. It's a view of the city, as seen by the people who sleep on its streets.

There are nine stories in all, each of them exactly 999 words long, excluding the title.

Almost-true stories from the streets of L.A.

52 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2010

About the author

Bronwyn Mauldin is the author of the novel Love Songs of the Revolution , and the short story collection The Streetwise Cycle . She is a past winner of The Coffin Factory magazine’s very short story contest. Her work has appeared in the Akashic Books "Mondays Are Murder" series, and in Hemingway Shorts (prize finalist), Cherry Tree, Gold Man Review, Tusculum Review, Literature for Life, and several editions of the annual Dada anthology, Maintenant.

Bronwyn is also the creator of The Democracy Series zine collection. She has been a writer in residence at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, Denali National Park in Alaska, and Kulturni Centar REX in Belgrade, Serbia.

Reviews

[Cheryl Klein · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don’t usually crave interactivity, and such bells and whistles annoy me when they come at the expense of a good narrative. So I wasn’t the most obvious or un-skeptical audience for this project. But no narrative was harmed in the making of this collection, and I came away envying Bronwyn Mauldin's eye for detail as well as her technological curiosity. These are stories about the disenfranchised, packaged for readers who are interested in enfranchising themselves in new ways.

[Bronwyn Mauldin]

I wrote this book, so I don't reckon I'll review it. Let me know if you review it!