Troy James Weaver
1) Marigold
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"A thirty-something floral salesman searches for reasons to keep living. Marigold is a hundred haikus of loneliness, pages torn from Baudelaire's dream journal, the suicide note as high art" --back cover
2) Visions
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"Visions chronicles a hypnotic descent from childhood to adulthood. A boy sees angels, finds love, loses it, and becomes hearbreakingly aware of the world around him. Using a dreamy prost that calls to mind the films of Harmony Korine, Weave crafts a deft and disturbing portrait of the young life of a David Koresh-like cult figure." --back cover
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"The short vignette-style tales in Troy James Weaver’s...Witchita Stories, combine to make an evocative brew of small town melancholy, working class gloom, and coming of age charm. Told through the eyes of a young man who yearns to find excitement, truth, and a deeper family bond in his life, Weaver’s approachable and revealing stories, lists, fragments, and memories delve into the weird, funny, and sometimes unsettling world of a midwest kid...
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These short stories are "pitiful and ordinary and bleak that nonetheless hinges on one incandescent moment....where everything is bright and nothing is final. The characters of Selected Stories occupy such moments, the weightless space between hurting and feeling the hurt, a place strangely euphoric if only for the smallest second. For nothing is decided yet, or rather the consequences have not come to pass." --Entropymag.org