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Monthly Archives: June 2021
Recursively Yours
Anya, a ghost from my past life who had been more alive in my heart than perhaps anyone else.Anya, who in varied incarnations I had loved and killed off in many different ways in different stories. Yet I always resurrected … Continue reading
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Tagged first love, ghost story, no man's brooklyn, noir, novel
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Rainy Night
Something in me couldn’t bear the prospect of sitting next to Anya on the train, of us talking. I didn’t want there to be any words between us. Ours had become a ghost story and I wanted silence to fulfill … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony distefano, Brooklyn, CSF Publishing, first love, ghost story, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, novel, rainy night
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Company
It is scary once you realize that the past can be changed, and that the future is fixed, a rigged absolute. Knowing that changes everything. And what about the present? For some the present is intolerable cruelty, unimpeachable company. For … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony distefano, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, no sleep till brooklyn, novel, train station
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Boneyard
I tell myself stories in the dark, Anya. Whether or not they help is either of primary consequence or none at all. Sometimes you have to walk through the boneyard in order to reach the garden. This is what I … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony distefano, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, noir, novel, shadow play
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Tryst
It’s tough to always be in love with a ghost. It’s also easy. The living don’t stand a chance against ghosts. In loving ghosts there are no real complications, no real disappointments, no real anything. There’s lots of teething on … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony distefano, CSF Publishing, ghost story, John Biscello, noir, novel
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Feast Days
I could feel the music of a slow future dying inside me. And the past very much alive, like shimmering beatific flowers, like luscious night thistles. The past is a changeable feast. Except it is a feast that eats and … Continue reading
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The Dark
Remember when we were kids and we’d sometimes have sleepovers and listen to the dark together? That’s what you called it Anya. Listening to the dark. And it was because of you Anya that I started naming different types of dark, … Continue reading
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Tagged alley, anthony distefano, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, no sleep till brooklyn, noir, novel, shadow play
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Station
Anya, I long to reach you only because I know that you are unreachable. It keeps my longing in a chrysalis state, a cocoon state. Nothing ever grows. It simply hums and palpitates and aspires toward growth. It is the … Continue reading
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Tagged coming soon, love story, no man's brooklyn, novel, obsession, shadow play, urban lit
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No Man’s Brooklyn
Cover reveal for my fourth novel. Coming soon from CSF Publishing.
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Tagged Brooklyn, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, Literary, no sleep till brooklyn, novel, Prose
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No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Back cover image for my new novel, No Man’s Brooklyn.Coming soon from CSF Publishing.Photos by Anthony Distefano.
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