Wrestling Light
by Michael Neal Morris
Price: $3.99 USD. 7500 words.
Published on January 15, 2012. Fiction.
We wrestle with many things during our lives: each other, ideas, desires, God. This is a book about such conflicts.
Location: United States
Member Since: June 06, 2009
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Michael Neal Morris
Biography
Michael Neal Morris attended East Texas State University (now Texas A&M in Commerce). He teaches English at Eastfield College in Mesquite. He has published a number of stories, poems, and essays both online and in print. He has worked as a secretary, technical writer, janitor, and tutor. He lives with his wife and children just outside the Dallas area.
Where to find Michael Neal Morris online
Twitter: mnmwrite
Blog: http://mnmwrite.blogspot.com/
- mnmwrite: Texas Gumbo at today's recital. Should be fun.
- mnmwrite: likes Rio by Keith Jarrett on Ping http://t.co/3ZBBOYkC #iTunes
- mnmwrite: Don't think I'm making it to the library today.
- mnmwrite: Downtown with the kids, freezing outside while they wait to audition for monster movie.
- mnmwrite: So I can access Twitter and Ecampus, but not Facebook or my bank site. So goofy.
Blog: http://mnmwrite.blogspot.com/
Books
Rope
by Michael Neal Morris
Price: $3.99 USD. 15520 words. Published on July 27, 2011. Fiction.
Rope contains five stories about men struggling with their demons or struggling with those who have given in to their demons.
Price: $3.99 USD. 15520 words. Published on July 27, 2011. Fiction.
Rope contains five stories about men struggling with their demons or struggling with those who have given in to their demons.
Quick
by Michael Neal Morris
Price: $2.99 USD. 6570 words. Published on January 16, 2010. Fiction.
Here are seven brief stories about how quickly life changes. Meet a man paralyzed in the prime of his life, a father taunted by his past, an abusive mother, a musician trying to keep control at a party, a father trying to feed an ungrateful family, a teenage girl caught between promises, and a man just trying to get his fast food order prepared correctly.
Price: $2.99 USD. 6570 words. Published on January 16, 2010. Fiction.
Here are seven brief stories about how quickly life changes. Meet a man paralyzed in the prime of his life, a father taunted by his past, an abusive mother, a musician trying to keep control at a party, a father trying to feed an ungrateful family, a teenage girl caught between promises, and a man just trying to get his fast food order prepared correctly.
They Live With You
by Michael Neal Morris
Price: $2.99 USD. 16020 words. Published on January 10, 2010. Nonfiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
This is a collection of personal essays or fragments of a memoir about fathers and fatherhood, childhood and raising children, playing and working.
Price: $2.99 USD. 16020 words. Published on January 10, 2010. Nonfiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) This is a collection of personal essays or fragments of a memoir about fathers and fatherhood, childhood and raising children, playing and working.
Making Rounds
by Michael Neal Morris
Price: $2.99 USD. 900 words. Published on October 25, 2009. Fiction.
I once worked as a security guard. When it was time to make my rounds, I would spend the time, perhaps to defend against the numbing sadness I felt much of the time at each post, composing little pieces. Each of these I would try to force into a rough tanka (concerning syllable count, not theme). The result was this sequence.
Price: $2.99 USD. 900 words. Published on October 25, 2009. Fiction.
I once worked as a security guard. When it was time to make my rounds, I would spend the time, perhaps to defend against the numbing sadness I felt much of the time at each post, composing little pieces. Each of these I would try to force into a rough tanka (concerning syllable count, not theme). The result was this sequence.
Die Laughing
by Michael Neal Morris
Price: $2.99 USD. 16100 words. Published on October 19, 2009. Fiction.
Three short adventures about the awkwardness of youth.
Price: $2.99 USD. 16100 words. Published on October 19, 2009. Fiction.
Three short adventures about the awkwardness of youth.
Three Laments
by Michael Neal Morris
Price: $2.99 USD. 3140 words. Published on October 19, 2009. Fiction.
Three poem sequences or suites written during a period of several griefs.
Price: $2.99 USD. 3140 words. Published on October 19, 2009. Fiction.
Three poem sequences or suites written during a period of several griefs.
Walking in Circles
by Michael Neal Morris
Price: $2.99 USD. 2640 words. Published on October 18, 2009. Fiction.
This is a chapbook length collection of my early poems.
Price: $2.99 USD. 2640 words. Published on October 18, 2009. Fiction.
This is a chapbook length collection of my early poems.
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Smashwords book reviews by Michael Neal Morris
- Soul in Verse
on July 27, 2011
Michelle Hudson has the potential to be a fine poet. Many of the poems are too much like prose -- some are not so much verse as little short stories or essays with line breaks. Several poems need revision to make them smoother, more poetic, so that the keen subjects and ideas are matched by powerful and succinct words and rhythm. That said, this collection demonstrates one of the most significant and most necessary qualities in good poetry: honesty. Ms. Hudson's verse does not just touch on important subjects, but tackles them openly, letting the verse, not the subject, carry the weight of the emotion. There is emotion here to be sure, but the poet does not just hit us with the same old cliches and a bunch of exclamation marks, as so do many amateurs. She moves from prayer to physical desire so deftly and with such candor, the reader cannot help but want to follow along. And where the poems work within a natural rhythm, the impact is tremendous. Ms. Hudson certainly has read well and has the music in her heart and mind to write some good poetry. I look forward to seeing more from her.