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A Litany of Crows

A secret government aide navigates a maze of treacheries, a withered personal life, and the underground swell of social revolution.

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A Litany of Crows

a sociopolitical dramaturgy in novel

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T. Van Santana

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright © 2018 by The Van Santana Limited Company
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof
may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever
without the express written permission of the publisher
except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Advance reading copy, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Also by T. Van Santana

AN AXE +2 GRIND

THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT

THE DREAM REGISTER OF TVS

FLASHES

GAUCHO

INCORPOREAL

LORDDWELLER

MONTEREY

PUNKADYNK!

THE WEIGHT OF WORDS

The Secret of Secrets:

EVERYTHING FAILS: A SCIENCE FICTIONAL MEMOIR

THESE ARE THE THINGS I KNOW

THE GRAND STORY OF NOT

THE THIEVES OF ALL THAT YOU ARE

WE CAN NEVER GO BACK

LOVE IS WHAT YOU HAVE

BE A DARK HORSE!

THE STARS CALL US HOME

T VAN SANTANA & THE BLACK BOOK OF FEAR

UNTITLED

A GALAXY OF SUBMISSION

T VAN SANTANA & THE CODEX OF COHERENCE

SOMA

THE LILAC JUNE

 

As editor

TALES FROM AZZA-JONO

TVS NANOFICTION ANNUAL 1

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Uncountable. One letter after another and on like that. A sentence, then a paragraph, then another without knowable end. I wipe my eyes and put it down. Writing is supposed to give you something, not take away what you have.

“I'm not signing this.” It doesn't matter that I say that. Eventually what the paper says will happen. I can't stop it.

It's no excuse. Neither am I laying blame when I say I had pisspoor examples. Yelling. That was part of it. The hysterics of a lonely household brimming with activity. I mean, I guess. I was a kid.

Now, it's like Ninety-eight has come again. Was way into my own thoughts then. A deep fantasy from childhood and adolescence wound into some newly inspired coil, a thousand yards of character types and story tropes retypified to my adult sensibility. Much the same, though. Love. Conflict. Separation.

It's not that I think sex is gross, but I'm not that into it right now. I don't know who would want me. That's part of it.

 
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