This is an excerpt from the beginning of Endangered Species. It begins with the sentence Eric maroney thought should be the first sentence of the book. I tried to make it that, I really did, but I couldn’t make the book work that way. It couldn’t start with Roy or Sally. It had to start […]
This is an excerpt from the middle of Endangered Species. I’m going to post the whole thing one of these days but for now it’s going to be excerpts, and an excerpted novel isn’t always all that comprehensible. In this part my characters are putting on a show, Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi. It’s a sort […]
Jail’s a good place for reading books. And a ship at sea. Men on submarines read a lot, and in the Antarctic. But the place I’ve read the most has been in decompression chambers, after working in a diving bell. You’re breathing helium. And there’s just nothing else you can do for weeks at a […]
I was standing over the middle of the river when I suddenly couldn’t account for my actions. Why had I done what I just did. I did not want to undo it and so I walked on. It is the same with love and friendship. I can catalogue the physical sensations of either but why […]
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