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Waking Up: 3 Stories that Blur the Lines of Reality — Marc Paoletti
WAKING UP: 3 STORIES THAT BLUR THE LINES OF REALITY is a 8,300-word, literary mini-anthology by Marc Paoletti, award-winning author of SCORCH. Every story has been published previously.
NO EYE TO WATCH, NO TONGUE TO WOUND
It's just another day at the Monumental Insurance Company--when time screeches to a halt. Everyone is frozen in place, it seems, except for Julia, a disgruntled telemarketer. A dream come true? Or a surreal nightmare? Either way, Julia takes full advantage of the situation, allowing the dark part of her nature to run amok. Written with William Relling, Jr.
I DREAMED IT MY WAY
What kind of dreams might Frank Sinatra have had? Perhaps something akin to the following, according to the first line of this short tale: “When the naked dame in front of me smiles, her lips slide back over her teeth with a blast from the horn section. I taste her smile on my tongue. It's sweet and greasy like bad cannoli.”
WAKING UP
Metafiction wrapped in literary analysis wrapped in a mystery, “Waking Up” follows a man as he attempts to uncover the cause of his terrible nightmares. During his journey, he will explore the use of language (in short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and George Saunders), and question his very reality--and ours.
NO EYE TO WATCH, NO TONGUE TO WOUND
It's just another day at the Monumental Insurance Company--when time screeches to a halt. Everyone is frozen in place, it seems, except for Julia, a disgruntled telemarketer. A dream come true? Or a surreal nightmare? Either way, Julia takes full advantage of the situation, allowing the dark part of her nature to run amok. Written with William Relling, Jr.
I DREAMED IT MY WAY
What kind of dreams might Frank Sinatra have had? Perhaps something akin to the following, according to the first line of this short tale: “When the naked dame in front of me smiles, her lips slide back over her teeth with a blast from the horn section. I taste her smile on my tongue. It's sweet and greasy like bad cannoli.”
WAKING UP
Metafiction wrapped in literary analysis wrapped in a mystery, “Waking Up” follows a man as he attempts to uncover the cause of his terrible nightmares. During his journey, he will explore the use of language (in short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and George Saunders), and question his very reality--and ours.
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