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Deus Ex Machina
Two short stories. In Deus ex Machina, a starving writer splurges on a cab ride after missing the last Metro, and ends up on an unexpected journey. In Diary of Sue Peaner, things get a little too real for a reality show contestant.
20 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 3, 2013
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About the author
Sparkle Hayter
18 books78 followersSparkle Hayter is a Canadian journalist and author.
Hayter was born in Pouce Coupe, British Columbia, Canada and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1986, she graduated in film and television production from New York University. Among other things, she worked for CNN in Atlanta, WABC in New York and Global Television in Toronto. At the time of the Afghan civil war, she moved to Pakistan and then went along with the Mujahedin to Afghanistan, reporting for the Toronto Star. After this, she decided to give up journalism as a career. After her return to the U.S. she married and began her career as a comic and a writer with her first, not very successful, novel. She moved briefly to Tokyo, then on her return to New York divorced and went to live in the famous Chelsea Hotel
She then published a further 5 novels, the Robin Hudson series, which proved her breakthrough. She wrote for the New York Times Op-Ed Page, the Nation and Toronto Globe and Mail, was a regular participant on CNN's talk show "CNN & Company" and was also seen on Good Day New York, NPR, CBC, BBC and Paris Premiere. Currently she lives in Paris and is writing her next novel.
Series:
* Robin Hudson
Awards:
* Arthur Ellis Award
o Best First Novel (1995): What's a Girl Gotta Do?
Hayter was born in Pouce Coupe, British Columbia, Canada and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1986, she graduated in film and television production from New York University. Among other things, she worked for CNN in Atlanta, WABC in New York and Global Television in Toronto. At the time of the Afghan civil war, she moved to Pakistan and then went along with the Mujahedin to Afghanistan, reporting for the Toronto Star. After this, she decided to give up journalism as a career. After her return to the U.S. she married and began her career as a comic and a writer with her first, not very successful, novel. She moved briefly to Tokyo, then on her return to New York divorced and went to live in the famous Chelsea Hotel
She then published a further 5 novels, the Robin Hudson series, which proved her breakthrough. She wrote for the New York Times Op-Ed Page, the Nation and Toronto Globe and Mail, was a regular participant on CNN's talk show "CNN & Company" and was also seen on Good Day New York, NPR, CBC, BBC and Paris Premiere. Currently she lives in Paris and is writing her next novel.
Series:
* Robin Hudson
Awards:
* Arthur Ellis Award
o Best First Novel (1995): What's a Girl Gotta Do?
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November 22, 2013
I don't want to damn with faint praise, but these two stories were...cute.
January 14, 2017
A quick little story that no doubt had its genesis in Hayter's own experience. A young woman finding herself--Art and Life and All That--in Paris has finally reached rock bottom. More desperate than the Robin Hudson stories and less outright daffy. Twist ending wasn't particularly. I had actually forgotten I had it on Kindle and had already read it once; until about halfway through, it is fairly unmemorable.
Two-and-a-half stars.
Two-and-a-half stars.
June 24, 2014
Two short stories -- yep that's all ya get, but fun no less. Total reading time is under 30 minutes.
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