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Richard Lloyd Spanier
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Richard Lloyd Spanier lives in Tucson, Arizona and writes fiction. His work has won awards from the Philadelphia Writers' Conference and the Society of Southwestern Authors.
Descending Gods, a collection of stories was published in December, 2013.
Works in progress include Empty Chairs a collection of stories based in his idiosyncratic thoughts on the lessons of history and Cold Call, a novel derived from his experiences as a salesman confronted by "the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender." Both Empty Chairs and Cold call are scheduled for publication in 2014.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended the University of Wisconsin studying with Isaac Bashevis Singer for a semester. At Temple University he studied Philosophy of Education publishing in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior and Focus on Education. He and wife Wendy moved from Philadelphia to Tucson in 1993. They have been together since the earth cooled.
Descending Gods, a collection of stories was published in December, 2013.
Works in progress include Empty Chairs a collection of stories based in his idiosyncratic thoughts on the lessons of history and Cold Call, a novel derived from his experiences as a salesman confronted by "the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender." Both Empty Chairs and Cold call are scheduled for publication in 2014.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended the University of Wisconsin studying with Isaac Bashevis Singer for a semester. At Temple University he studied Philosophy of Education publishing in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior and Focus on Education. He and wife Wendy moved from Philadelphia to Tucson in 1993. They have been together since the earth cooled.
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Descending Gods
by Richard Lloyd Spanier
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 17,360.
Language:
English.
Published: December 24, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Spiritual & metaphysical
Errol Stein confronts life's mysteries in four stories describing the transformation of a phantom being leaping blindly from one life form to another, the rescue of a ferocious beast from a swimming pool in a blinding Sonoran desert monsoon, a demand for the sacrifice of his only son by an ancient Mayan god and a blues inspired enlightenment of what happens and where we go when we die.
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Never Apologize; a Dream of New York City
on Dec. 28, 2013
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