- Author's Note
- Sutherland Street, Bedecked with Jewels and Rubies
- The Death of E. B. Jarvis
- The Young Men and Women of East Street
- The Boarding House
- Big Mouth and Crooked Teeth
- The Painter
- She and Him
- Twin Sisters
- My Mother, Julia
Compound Fractures
A Collection of Short Stories
His shoelaces are a dusty dirty-white; the threads in his jeans are as slim as his veins. His arms are stretched wide like some ungainly large bird; long brave wings against the terrifying blue. His heart is drumming out the sound of his soul, a siren song for sin and shame, the first seedy sound Jarvis ever heard the world make. Out of the corner of his eye and a little to the left, there's pollution pushing plumes out of chimneys, like grey, pleated brains.
Born in 1987, my sister, Danielle, claims to have survived growing up in a small village by reading about large cities and towns. Four years of university followed by years of teaching, she never found out quite what she wanted to do when she grew up.
She claimed not to enjoy reading so much as need it. As Scout says in To Kill a Mockingbird, "One does not love breathing".
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His shoelaces are a dusty dirty-white; the threads in his jeans are as slim as his veins. His arms are stretched wide like some ungainly large bird; long brave wings against the terrifying blue. His heart is drumming out the sound of his soul, a siren song for sin and shame, the first seedy sound Jarvis ever heard the world make. Out of the corner of his eye and a little to the left, there's pollution pushing plumes out of chimneys, like grey, pleated brains.
Born in 1987, my sister, Danielle, claims to have survived growing up in a small village by reading about large cities and towns. Four years of university followed by years of teaching, she never found out quite what she wanted to do when she grew up.
She claimed not to enjoy reading so much as need it. As Scout says in To Kill a Mockingbird, "One does not love breathing".
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Danielle Ashton, whom passed out of my life before this collection of short stories was published. I thought it would be a waste of her efforts not to publish.
I have taken the liberty of extending some of her stories, as well as adding a few of my own.
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Hello there, potential customer/reader. I'm Philip.
When I was younger, I was a voracious reader, sometimes devouring a book in two days flat. These days, that's a rare feat for me. Most of the time, I'm doing something other than reading or writing, but I still write regularly (blog posts and short stories, anthologies of the highlights I intend to publish here).
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