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The Mortality Shot

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

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Description:THE MORTALITY SHOT is a hybrid collection of stories, essays, and experimental stage text that meditates directly or indirectly on mortality. Julia wrote the earlier work in the collection about grieving others' deaths; more recent pieces include facing her own mortality thanks to long-haul COVID complications that landed her in the hospital. Stories and essays include those previously published in Prairie Schooner, [PANK], Heavy Feather Review, Burning House Press and Bindle Prize winning story by Nomadic Press. Advance "There are myriad ways to craft a story. Most writers find one they like - or that other people like - and stick with it. Not so Julia Lee Barclay-Morton. In less than 150 pages she demonstrates what true and brilliant hybrid writing does expertly focuses nearly limitless narrative possibilities on singular human experiences, always making the right choices. Here you'll find an essay about long-haul COVID in ninety-nine numbered sections; a story formatted as a choral work for multiple, dissenting voices that are really the thoughts of a single, fragmented mind; a tale told in colors — including the color of dried blood — by a young girl who is just beginning to decipher the adult world. The author, through compassion and observation, lives for a while in all these bodies, and takes dictation. And because she hears, and faithfully renders, we learn." - Sharon Mesmer, author of Half Angel, Half Lunch "The Mortality Shot poignantly brings home the striking ways grief manifests itself in death and how we process it. Through exquisite storytelling, it connected with me on multiple levels. As a bibliotherapist, we are all grappling with some form of loss, whether it's death, heartbreak, estrangement or any difficult life transition - here we have literature that mirrors these losses, makes us feel understood and allows us to look at and process grief in new and refreshing ways. Plus, if you appreciate well-crafted literature then you're in for a treat! Julia Barclay-Morton elegantly explores essay, memoir and stage text to bring the themes of grief, loss, compassion, love and family in heartfelt and inventive prose and text." - Bijal Shah, author of The Happiness Mindset and (forthcoming) How Literature Heals Us. "The Mortality Shot combines the spare lyricism of Duras with the formalistic play of Lispector." - William Lessard,Heavy Feather Review"In its profound and meticulous attention to what feels like almost everything—childhood, mourning, grief, human cruelty, love—Julia Barclay-Morton's The Mortality Shot bends all the rules (if there are "rules") in pursuit of a form that will prove equal to everything she has to say. She gets there. The Mortality Shot is lucid, beautiful, and deeply, deeply "the raw stuff," indeed." - Matthew Specktor, author of Always Crashing in the Same Car "These stories and essays (plus a stage text) push up against heartfelt questions of life and death in ways that are complex, counter-intuitive, humorous and striking. Writing against the grain, in varying styles and intensities, The Mortality Shotgoes places that so much current literature wouldn't dare, demonstrating that real writing is always a risk and a gamble, and that onlyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Mortality Shot. To get started finding The Mortality Shot, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 159

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Liquid Cat Publishing

Release: 2022

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Description: THE MORTALITY SHOT is a hybrid collection of stories, essays, and experimental stage text that meditates directly or indirectly on mortality. Julia wrote the earlier work in the collection about grieving others' deaths; more recent pieces include facing her own mortality thanks to long-haul COVID complications that landed her in the hospital. Stories and essays include those previously published in Prairie Schooner, [PANK], Heavy Feather Review, Burning House Press and Bindle Prize winning story by Nomadic Press. Advance "There are myriad ways to craft a story. Most writers find one they like - or that other people like - and stick with it. Not so Julia Lee Barclay-Morton. In less than 150 pages she demonstrates what true and brilliant hybrid writing does expertly focuses nearly limitless narrative possibilities on singular human experiences, always making the right choices. Here you'll find an essay about long-haul COVID in ninety-nine numbered sections; a story formatted as a choral work for multiple, dissenting voices that are really the thoughts of a single, fragmented mind; a tale told in colors — including the color of dried blood — by a young girl who is just beginning to decipher the adult world. The author, through compassion and observation, lives for a while in all these bodies, and takes dictation. And because she hears, and faithfully renders, we learn." - Sharon Mesmer, author of Half Angel, Half Lunch "The Mortality Shot poignantly brings home the striking ways grief manifests itself in death and how we process it. Through exquisite storytelling, it connected with me on multiple levels. As a bibliotherapist, we are all grappling with some form of loss, whether it's death, heartbreak, estrangement or any difficult life transition - here we have literature that mirrors these losses, makes us feel understood and allows us to look at and process grief in new and refreshing ways. Plus, if you appreciate well-crafted literature then you're in for a treat! Julia Barclay-Morton elegantly explores essay, memoir and stage text to bring the themes of grief, loss, compassion, love and family in heartfelt and inventive prose and text." - Bijal Shah, author of The Happiness Mindset and (forthcoming) How Literature Heals Us. "The Mortality Shot combines the spare lyricism of Duras with the formalistic play of Lispector." - William Lessard,Heavy Feather Review"In its profound and meticulous attention to what feels like almost everything—childhood, mourning, grief, human cruelty, love—Julia Barclay-Morton's The Mortality Shot bends all the rules (if there are "rules") in pursuit of a form that will prove equal to everything she has to say. She gets there. The Mortality Shot is lucid, beautiful, and deeply, deeply "the raw stuff," indeed." - Matthew Specktor, author of Always Crashing in the Same Car "These stories and essays (plus a stage text) push up against heartfelt questions of life and death in ways that are complex, counter-intuitive, humorous and striking. Writing against the grain, in varying styles and intensities, The Mortality Shotgoes places that so much current literature wouldn't dare, demonstrating that real writing is always a risk and a gamble, and that onlyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Mortality Shot. To get started finding The Mortality Shot, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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