Content: identity

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When Ethan Elliot, the prodigal son with a poet’s heart, crosses paths with the eccentric Jules, their trajectories align, hurtling them far from the boroughs of New York City, on a life-changing, cross-country, roller-coaster ride into the bowels of Middle America. After a hap chance meeting on a subway in Manhattan, Ethan and Jules are forever bound by a single self-portrait. However, it’s only after we are introduced to the worldly, mystery drifter, Wolfgang, that their true colors begin to show. The three “lost souls…nbsp; take off in a Chevy Chevelle bound for Boonville, Missouri expecting to find themselves, the world they once knew, and their shared divination. What they don’t expect is to be taken hostage by a family member that they have never met. "Freaks of Nature" is a coming of age story about forgiveness, providence, and our redemption as a human race. It takes the reader through Ethan’s slapdash, and often times frightening, view of today’s America, demanding us to face our gluttonous zeitgeist and nudging us back towards our intended humanity. But more than simply a story about a character’s growth into fruition; at approximately 90,000 words, it’s a commentary on the anomaly, or “freaks†, we’ve become as a society. First round draft. Looking for any advice: creative, technical, what have you.

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I am not, by nature, a poet; still, I admire the work of verse artists, and I have my favorites. Anne Sexton and my mother looked alike, and I have always read both of their work, not knowing which is which. This is my homage to: a)both of them; b)neither of them; c)to myself. Today was a carved-up day.

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Part II of "Back to the Start Again," where we learn what Jack Pryor's been hiding, from whom, and for what reasons.

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A man has taken his own life, hanged himself from a tree, and reporter Jack Pryor goes out to the scene to investigate. While he looks at the crime scene, the police chief slips him a note: someone knows he's there, and that someone wants to see him at the Deadman's Lounge. So, Jack goes into the City, only to find out a series of strange coincidences, including the beautiful woman at the Deadman's Lounge who may know more about Jack that he wants anyone else to know.

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