Cory Cason

Biography

Cory Cason is a starving and destitute writer renting a tiny room in a townhouse near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Littleton, Colorado. Though he thinks he’s a writer, he somehow ended up wasting almost thirty years of his life employed by some of the biggest banking firms in the festering cesspool they call corporate America. He justifies this prostitution by telling himself that he did what he had to do to give his daughter a good life, no matter how big of a river of shit he had to swim across. He dealt with this situation by drinking very heavily, becoming a frequent sight at various drinking establishments throughout the greater Denver area.
Despite nearly having his soul nearly wither away inside the cloth walls of a cubicle, and enduring all of the existential depravity that went with it, he never forgot about childhood dream of being a writer and remembering the book he wrote in third grade that was bound together with pipe cleaners. Notebooks of stories cluttered his room in high school. He majored in journalism at college, foolishly thinking he was going be part of the next Woodward and Bernstein, or at least about Rock n Roll for Creem magazine.
The dream was dormant, save some poems and short stories, until 2012, after losing his job during great robbery, err…foreclosure crisis, he made a few submissions to a sports blog that were well received. His wife encouraged him to devote more time to his writing. After she died in 2013, he started to make a list of the good times they had together. The list items became sentences, the sentences became paragraphs, but he knew that there wouldn’t be a real story if he didn’t write about the bad times they had together as well. Cory knew that the project wouldn’t work unless he wrote with brutal honesty. It all came together for his first book, “At the End of the Dance”. He followed that up with another non-fiction book that chronicled the depths of grieving that he cleverly titled “The Next Dance”.
The books moved pretty well whenever he gave them away for free. Every once in a while, somebody actually pays for a book and that’s good for $1.36 in royalties. Having figured that his “audience” was tired of him baring his soul out in words, he decided to give writing fiction it’s day in court. He titled his first novel “Still Born” but acknowledges the title may be misleading. When asked what it’s about, the author says its “a story about what it’s like to be in an insane man’s hallucinations”. A reader on Amazon gave him a five-star review and Cory claims it is legitimate. He didn’t pay anybody to do it. His second novel, “St. Jude’s Island” is the story of redemption set in a mysterious place where Karma and prayer intersect. He also has three collections of poetry that are also available on Amazon and Smashwords. He is fully aware that nobody reads poetry anymore.
His third novel, "Plane, Colorado" will be released in January 2021.

Where to find Cory Cason online

Books

Plane, Colorado
Price: Free! Words: 59,600. Language: English. Published: January 1, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
A stranger’s arrival sets off a series of meteoric events that tests the conviction of the San Luis Valley’s inhabitants, including those who live on a higher plane of existence, about the mysteries and myths that endure in Earth’s biggest mountain valley.
13 Short Stories
Price: Free! Words: 41,340. Language: English. Published: November 26, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
The first collection of short stories by Cory Cason, written entirely during the lock down months of 2020
Iowa: Poetry and Photography
Price: Free! Words: 1,440. Language: English. Published: September 16, 2020 . Categories: Poetry » Biography
A year spent living in Iowa captured in words and images.
St. Jude's Island
Price: Free! Words: 33,580. Language: English. Published: October 13, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical
In a novel about consequences and redemption, Cory Cason uses his character Caleb Quinn to explore these questions through an intense series of interactions between characters and paints a picture of how unseen external forces play into our everyday lives.
…and now you want me to do what?...
Price: Free! Words: 2,510. Language: English. Published: January 12, 2017 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry, Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Artists
A widower discovers his late wife's poems, art, and photographs. The collected works of Julie Cason 1973 - 2013
Still Born
Price: Free! Words: 31,660. Language: English. Published: August 7, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Do you really belong in this world? Not everybody does. Some souls take a wrong turn at an intersection of space and time and end up in a lost existence. Vincent is one of the souls. It is not obvious to him in his youth, but as he journeys through life he slowly realizes who he is.
The Next Dance
Price: Free! Words: 44,600. Language: English. Published: June 14, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
It’s a fine line between running away and embarking on a journey of self-discovery. After becoming a widower before the age of fifty, Cory must figure out what his sense of purpose will be for the rest of his life.
At the End of the Dance
Price: Free! Words: 44,090. Language: English. Published: March 29, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
A very true story of crazy love, cancer and Lehman Brothers.
Disturbances: Poetry of an Angry Young Man
Price: Free! Words: 5,140. Language: English. Published: February 21, 2014 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
A contemporary author discovers the poems that he had written over twenty years earlier when he was at different stage of life.