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Real Time: Stories
Stories of distorted time and blurred reality amid the endless struggle to maintain a sense of humanity.
Contortions
At the moment of death, a man imagines his fading life.
Ponsel and Indians
A middle-aged white man decides to become an Indian and attack the Capitol Building with flaming arrows.
McGovern Gives Her Virginity to God
A Catholic School adolescent confronts sexual and spiritual obsession.
Wounds of the Renaissance
For some, the world turns too fast.
Flash Stories
Brief hallucinations.
White Horse Black Horse
What if you committed a sin so grave you had to relive it forever? That’s the plight of three generations of male family members living in an isolated beach house. It’s a hot December, a few thousand years after the great nuclear war – or before it – the characters aren’t sure which, as they struggle, often comically, for a way to balance good and evil. The narrator is the older son, who survives by making his life run on mind-numbing autopilot. His brother has two horses, which he rides in the sand, with one leg on each like an acrobatic circus performer. Their world is turned upside down by the arrival of a young woman, who shows a way to break the treadmill of their lives. She inadvertently heightens the tension between the brothers, revealing the darkness, shadows, and light of being human.
Contortions
At the moment of death, a man imagines his fading life.
Ponsel and Indians
A middle-aged white man decides to become an Indian and attack the Capitol Building with flaming arrows.
McGovern Gives Her Virginity to God
A Catholic School adolescent confronts sexual and spiritual obsession.
Wounds of the Renaissance
For some, the world turns too fast.
Flash Stories
Brief hallucinations.
White Horse Black Horse
What if you committed a sin so grave you had to relive it forever? That’s the plight of three generations of male family members living in an isolated beach house. It’s a hot December, a few thousand years after the great nuclear war – or before it – the characters aren’t sure which, as they struggle, often comically, for a way to balance good and evil. The narrator is the older son, who survives by making his life run on mind-numbing autopilot. His brother has two horses, which he rides in the sand, with one leg on each like an acrobatic circus performer. Their world is turned upside down by the arrival of a young woman, who shows a way to break the treadmill of their lives. She inadvertently heightens the tension between the brothers, revealing the darkness, shadows, and light of being human.
158 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 20, 2017
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About the author
Steven Stosny
46 books48 followersSteven Stosny, Ph.D., is the founder of CompassionPower. His recent books are, Soar Above: How to Use the Most Profound Part of Your Brain Under Any Kind of Stress, Living and Loving after Betrayal, How to Improve your Marriage without Talking about It: Finding Love beyond Words, Love without Hurt, The Powerful Self, and Treating Attachment Abuse. He has treated over 6,000 clients for various forms of anger, abuse, and violence. He has appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “The Today Show,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” many CNN shows, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, WSJ, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, O, Psychology Today, USA Today. He has taught at the University of Maryland and at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He currently has a blog on Psychologytoday.com with over 9 million views.
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