PreviewsJean Marc Ah-Sen
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Dead Writers
Stories
Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, Naben Ruthnum
Four writers collaborate in this macro-narrative of interlocking themes, as each explores the concept of the “bargain” in novella-length stories – stories of a reluctant biographer, a journalist, a haunted tourist, and a colonial poet-doctor – all dealing with existential dread, tainted pasts, and uncertain futures.
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Now I Shall Leave You To Your Fate
Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Liz Harmer, Fawn Parker
Four novellas examine the struggles of psychological crisis. In Parker’s “Some Recent Experiences,” a young wife and mother continues to struggle with an eating disorder; “Lighthouse” by Harmer follows a writer who is writing a fictional memoir about her time in a psychiatric hospital; the neurotic narrator of McCreesh’s “My Close Friends” lives almost entirely on social media; and in Ah-Sen’s “Busybody,” a social outcast agrees to spy on his roommate on behalf of her ex-lover.
