James David Audlin

• Sep-2015
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The passengers riding the train remember nothing of their lives from before they were put aboard. They have no idea where the train is going. In fact, they argue whether the landscape they see through the windows is real or just their imagination. Th...

• Feb-2012
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Having seen a vision of John Lennon on a flaming pie, a young monk in the Beatles religion must travel to London to win back the original sacred music of the Fab Four. But to go near London, deep in the territory of the enemy Rolling Stones people, i...

• Feb-2012
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I think the time has come to embalm these stories and commit them to the museum of the written word. I beg you, though, to bear in mind that these stories are meant not at all to be read silently. Try reading them aloud, especially before a good camp...

• Feb-2012
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In a world all but destroyed by nuclear war and mind-controlling governments, a living corpse with the power to heal sets out to die on a cross. Across a landscape blasted by war, littered with still-crawling body parts and computer-driven fighting m...

• Feb-2012
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Behold the ordinary world from the wrong side and nightmares and visions appear. These are strange, unquiet short fictions from the author of RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR and THE CIRCLE OF LIFE. A stripper loves a swinging lightbulb. An explorer encount...

• Feb-2012
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Poetically frightening, filled with nebbishy gods and endearing demons, set everywhere from Beldonooza to the back porch, here are short fictions from James David Audlin. A boy turns into an orange to escape his tormentors. A planet with a million go...

• Feb-2012
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A widowed skater. A shill. A tree who loves Shakespeare. A freight train. Snow falling on unblinking eyes. Tumbleweed. Tachyons. Kites. A stranger who isn't. * * * A retired skater is driven by guilt over her husband's death to return to the village ...

• Feb-2012
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A little country surrounded by the Wall everyone knows is insurmountable. But the boy who refuses to be king vows to pass over it. Young as he is, Adam understands that being king would shackle him more tightly than being the lowest slave. He watches...

• Feb-2012
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Gimel. Ur. Suoche. An unnameable desert. Shambhala. Xanadu. A boy enters manhood while exploring the world - and finally finds home among a frightening, humble people. Given the wild gift of scrying, Adam is subjugated to a mad emperor and slavers, m...

• Feb-2012
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The War to End All Wars, except it is draining humanity. And the city has spiritually died. A sculptor comes home from war and dares to create a living sculpture that might yet restore hope to humanity. The city has no hope, no dreams, no vision. But...

• Feb-2012
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The Sun is sputtering and guttering with only a pallid reddish light. Dark night has nearly completed its victory over day. What few human beings are left cower in a last village awaiting the eventual death of the world. Two Hunters struggle for supr...

• Feb-2012
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The fabric of time and space have been ripped apart by humanity. But nobody seems to care; everyone is involved in the latest fad, an illegal pastime called The Game. Legend speaks of the Unknown King, who will supposedly come to set things right, bu...

• Feb-2012
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He is a runaway Dreamer, but he must stay awake -- or else the universe will be invaded by the Unreals. From his dreams the most popular virtual realities are constructed -- but he has disappeared into the underworld. And Alina Nemitz, a top execut...

• Dec-2011
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""Dreams are essential to me. I do my best to pay attention to them. Not only do I often write them down, but I think about them for years afterwards. It is occasionally made clear to me that they are meant to be turned into stories or poems or pla"...

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English-Speakers Note: This novel is available in English as "Rats Live on no Evil Star".Hispanohablantes darse cuenta: Esta novela está disponible en español como "Palíndromo".Une patineuse aveugle et veuve...