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Christian is a lonely emigrant, nearing seventy, having never come to terms with witnessing the murder of his mother, more than forty years in the past. When confronted with an official summons to return to his country -where the murderer of his mother has now confessed and awaits execution- Christian is forced to consider his life. As he travels to witness the execution, events from his past -opportunities he either ignored or retreated from- illustrate to him his state of removal from the world he inhabits. While attempting to reintegrate into his life, he encounters a young woman who confides in him her troubles with a temperamental lover. Trying to construct a kind of redemption for himself, Christian offers his help in extricating her from the situation
Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth is a curious yet reticent girl, awakening instinctually to the details and sensations of the world. The majority of her time spent waiting between incidental events, she sates her curiosity through observation of the things which surround her. With little input from her family or peers and with no distinct passion toward any individual pursuit, she drifts through the events of her days unnoticed and detached. Isolated by her manner in the world, she is able to observe the behaviors of people -encountering humor, loneliness, sexuality, violence, friendship and comfort without distinguishing one from another.
Voices Restless Inanimate collects the entirety of the verse composed by Pablo D'Stair Gonzalez between 1999 and 2005. Included in this volume are the fifteen poems that comprise the collections Milling In The Cemetery, This Structure Without Words and Cold When She Dances.Published for the first time together, these poems offer the reader a chance to explore a mind both detached and romantic, melancholic and passionate.Primarily a novelist, Gonzalez's verse provides him a further and more abstracted outlet for his examination of the minute and reserved details that make up an individuals life and desires, the unconscious collections of motives that drive us.
Danial Thames spends his free hours loitering in the public library. There he tries to glean some semblance of the life he finds described in books from his encounters with staff and patrons. Finding a scrap of writing on the library floor, he is inspired to litter fragments of his own random prose into the pages of various books. After many months, he discovers a notebook in which his writing has been copied down. Discovering that the collector is a talented writer, Danial Thames attempts to develop a friendship but finds himself jealous of the freedom the writer has to accept or desert him.
Timothy Spell finds himself in a tunnel of questions without the white light of answers waiting at its end. Mysterious killings lead him to suspect those closest to him-including himself.
Sixteen Small Deaths is a collection of short fiction culled from nearly a decade of work from Boston-based author, Christopher J. Dwyer. The stories in the collection skirt the edges of noir, horror and science-fiction, sometimes bringing the hazy boundaries of all three genres together within a single piece. Sixteen Small Deaths will take the reader on a journey of heartbreak and terror while diving into the dark recesses of the mind. ,
Every memory is a recording. Nothing about the Salton Sea is normal. The sand isn't sand. Just piles and piles of desiccated bones. There are little pockets where life clings on, birds, reptiles, people. It's an ecosystem of living things that rely on other living things too stubborn to leave. Life forcing itself on death, or maybe the other way around. Dee and her wife Sharon find this out the hard way after making a quick stop at Salvation Mountain to film some b-roll and see the sights out in the middle of the vast nothing. A bizarre rumor of a "crack in the sky" from one of the locals sends them on the hunt for an abandoned yacht club- where they make a discovery that changes their lives forever, and those close to them as well. Could you identify a loved one by their whisper? Beneath the Salton Sea is a cosmic horror technological nightmare transcribing the raw honesty of what makes a family, what breaks them, the difficulties of communication, and the painful joy of memories. If you knew this was the last thing I'd ever tell you, what would you want me to say?
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Walking machines have advantages over traditional vehicles, and have already accomplished tasks that wheeled or tracked robots cannot handle. Nevertheless, their use in industry and services is currently limited in scope. This book brings together methods and techniques that have been developed to deal with obstacles to wider acceptance of legged robots. Part I provides an historical overview. Part II concentrates on control techniques, as applied to Four-legged robots.