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    Never Apologize; a Dream of New York City
    Never Apologize; a Dream of New York City
    Never Apologize; a Dream of New York City
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    Never Apologize; a Dream of New York City

    By Lee Edward McIlmoyle

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    Richard Burley is a failing playwright, living in Brooklyn with his wife Kara. He's forty and it's getting hard to make ends meet as a writer, but he's still determined to try, whatever the cost. But now his problem is, he's run out of things to say with his writing, and no one wants to see his plays anymore. Thinking he needs to take a bike ride around the park to clear his head, he has a series of metaphysical encounters that affect him in ways he has never experienced before.

    Asking questions about love, life and the nature of reality and memory, this is a short story that opens up on the bigger story of Richard Burley in TERMINAL MONDAY, THE APPROXIMATE DISTANCE TO LIMBO, and PERPETUAL TUESDAY.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLee Edward McIlmoyle
    Release dateDec 25, 2013
    ISBN9781310858543
    Never Apologize; a Dream of New York City
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    Lee Edward McIlmoyle

    Writer/Artist/Musician/Cartoonist/activist.Canadian.Married to NYC book reviewer who won't review my books.Two cats, both insane.Help.

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      Never Apologize; a Dream of New York City - Lee Edward McIlmoyle

      Never Apologize

      © 2013 Lee Edward McIlmoyle

      Published by Lee Edward McIlmoyle at Smashwords

      Smashwords License Statement

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      THE BLURB

      Richard Burley is suffering from writer's block, and takes a long walk to clear his head. He covers more ground than he'd ever imagined possible, as the first snow of the season begins to fall, and he is confronted by possibilities he'd never considered before.

      FOREWORD

      Hi, I’m Lee. Thank you for buying this Ebook. It’s a short story introduction to the strange world of Richard Burley's Dreams of New York City, a speculative/mainstream literary fiction series about an author/songwriter and his extraordinary life. Think Slipstream with a dash of RomCom and the occasional generous helping of erotica.

      In case you’ve forgotten which book this is (eReaders are fun!), I’m the Canadian self-published author who writes stories about thieves and sorcerors, gypsies and spies, detectives and paranormal hunters, and a down-on-his-luck so-and-so named Richard Burley, currently of no fixed address. I ask you to read this story with as open a mind as possible, and, if you enjoy it, to email me at leeinlimbo@gmail.com and tell me so, particularly if you’d like me to hurry up and write more.

      Again, thank you.

      Lee Edward McIlmoyle,

      Listening to Bowie's Outside, making tea, eating leftovers, and publishing short stories for Christmas,

      Somewhere in Limbo,

      Wednesday, December 25th, 2013.

      Telling Fiction

      The apartment was filled with the smell of chicken soup on the stove, and there was a faint staccato melody of birds chirping and eating birdseed on the lawn outside of the kitchen, which the resident Ocelot was watching avidly. Vlad had given up because there wasn’t enough room for both of them in the kitchen window these days. Richard was sure that, if Limbonese Panthers could speak English, there would be a stream of grumbling about weight gain in teenaged ocelots.

      Both of L’il Wendy’s monitor screens were blank, but Julian

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