Big news: Russell Bittner’s fiction collection, Stories in the Key of C. Minor. published by Faraway, is available for purchase for just $10.96. An ebook version is also available for $5.00.
Six stories, all of which start within a five-mile radius of 350 5th Avenue, the address of the Empire State Building, the original “Ground Zero.” With this first book of five short stories and one novella, Russell Bittner believes that worlds can be discovered and described in a dewdrop, in a teardrop, in a leaky faucet—and that all that’s required is a good magnifying glass, keen powers of observation, and a feel for how language might be made to form a picture in the reader’s mind. NYC—fugheddaboud Brooklyn—is home to scoundrels and angels, derelicts and daredevils, high flyers, low flyers and every kind of flyer for every kind of service one human being is able to coerce, cheat, beggar or beat out of another. Russell captures that here in the key of C Minor—the key of melancholy.
The novella “Something Special,” which Faraway has been serializing in chapter-long installments throughout August is also now available as a single, complete file, for your reading convenience. Preview Russell Bittner’s talent in “Something Special,” then click here to purchase the book Stories in the Key of C. Minor.
]]>Our friend Joseph Grant has just had some more stories published. You can read his story “Reclamation”, just published in The Absent Willow Review, here: http://absentwillowreview.com/archives/reclamation.
]]>I was introduced to a website called 6 Sentences by Joseph Grant, a prolific writer whose work has appeared in Faraway. In lieu of new work on Faraway, I present to you a six sentence-long excerpt of my novel-to-be: Sail excerpt. It contains the longest sentence I’ve ever written, a matter of pride with me, although this section doesn’t quite give an accurate taste of the tone of the rest of the novel. I was reading a lot of Faulkner at the time and trying to emulate his style.
In the near future, we will also have a new issue of Faraway available, featuring a LOT of writers new to our site.
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Now, for the first time, you can read K. C. Wilson’s powerful new novella completely for free, presented by Faraway. By Florida-based author K. C. Wilson, Doing the Dead – 1983 is a superb piece of writing about a man turning thirty and recognizing the entanglements that made him who he is. Along the way an unforgettable cast of characters deals with murder, betrayal, love, friendship, music, and loss.
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In December, we serialized K. C. Wilson’s novella Doing the Dead – 1983. To start off the new year, we are going to bring you that novella, in full, for the first time. Come back tomorrow to download the full novella by this outstanding writer!
And now for the final chapter of K. C. Wilson’s novella Doing the Dead – 1983, presented by Faraway!
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]]>Kate came by early in the Cougar. Ingrid got up to see me off. Lyle was leaving to go to work. Susan slept. Russell sat on his couch on the porch, drinking beer and watching early morning TV on the portable black and white. The house was peaceful, calm. Ingrid waved a tender goodbye from the doorway. All I had to do was get in the car and go.
The moment of going provided a focus on the receding house. Inside the Cougar, reality and time were linked to no houses. The moment of going extended outward into a prolonged transition, like one of those endlessly changing Dead jams that segue in a hundred different directions before the full surging power of the band converges on a single resonating chord that announces the end of the song they were playing as it fades into the beginning of the next song, the next new song in the sequence. The music never stops.