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Archive for August 2, 2009

THE BOOK FROM THE SKY by Robert Kelly

An unremarkable boy named Billy sets out to find the spaceship that landed near the boarding house where he lives with his family in rural Philadelphia. He’s invited on this adventure by Eileen who also lives in the boarding house and is beginning to show signs of womanhood. Young Billy is driven to distraction by her smell, her silhouette, her touch. This part of the novel reads like an epic poem.

August 2, 2009  Tags: lyrical, scifi  Posted in: Experimental Fiction, Speculative (Beyond Reality)  No Comments

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