I

by Morgan Nyberg

In spite of its noir cover image, "I" is NOT a genre piece. It is a kind of extended literary joke (although not without some metaphysical foundation). This short story-like text is meant to be fun for readers with literary backgrounds who also enjoy cleverly constructed absurdity. A one-sentence synopsis: Reincarnations of Captain Ahab continue to search for the White Whale, seeking help from a character who speaks only in palindromes.

6 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 22, 2012

About the author

Morgan Nyberg was born in Ontario, Canada and grew up in farming country in southern British Columbia. After graduating from the University of British Columbia he worked as a laborer for a decade before finally settling into teaching. For most of the last 30 years he has lived abroad, teaching English as a Foreign Language in Ecuador, Portugal and the Sultanate of Oman.

His first book, The Crazy Horse Suite, a verse play, was performed on the stage in New York and was broadcast on CBC Radio. Soon after that a memoir won the CBC Literary Competition. His first venture into book-length fiction, a children's novel, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army, won Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award. Since then he has added a further children's novel, Bad Day in Gladland; two literary novels for adults, El Dorado Shuffle and Mr. Millennium; and the post-apocalyptic Raincoast Saga, comprising The Fixer, Since Tomorrow, Birds of Passage, Medicine and Frost Oysterson. He currently lives on Vancouver Island, Canada.