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    The Writer as a Man
    The Writer as a Man
    The Writer as a Man
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    The Writer as a Man

    By David Halliday

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    It’s a good place to think. The bench. To mull over ideas. That’s my madness. Everywhere I look I see patterns. Patterns are someone’s idea, someone’s creation. Order is recklessly rearranging the furniture around us. Old buildings being replaced by new buildings. Old people dropping dead at the feet of children. Order giving birth in the ashes of death. Order is my God. Patterns are His skin. I need a universe in which everything makes sense. What else is consciousness for? We were put here as witnesses. But why does God need us as witnesses? Why does God need us at all? When I was a small boy I would wander out into the backyard of my parents suburban home and look up onto the night sky at the stars and ask what all this was about. And just as I finished asking the question, I discovered that I was an old man.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Halliday
    Release dateAug 4, 2016
    ISBN9781370872312
    The Writer as a Man
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    David Halliday

    I have published poems, short stories, plays, art works in reviews and publications across the United States and Canada. I have several published books:murder by Coach House Press. This book is a series of poems and illustrations set up like scenes in a movie, describing the murder, trial, and mob execution of an innocent man. Winner of the 2001 Eppie for poetry.The Black Bird by. The Porcupine’s Quill. This is a book of poems, illustrations and short prose pieces describing the fictional making of the John Huston film, The Maltese Falcon.Making Movies by Press Porcepic. This is a book of long poems, interviews, short fiction pieces about a fictional BBC documentary about a fictional Canadian film maker, Samuel Bremmer and his company of actors and colleagues. It follows his career through the creation of a series of his movies.Church Street is Burning, a book of poems, was a finalist in the 2002 Eppie for poetry.The God of Six Points, published by Double-dragon-ebooks. A man who believes he is a god believes he has murdered one of his subjects.Sleeping Beauty, published by LTD ebooks.com is a murder mystery. A woman lands in a small village where the only escape is to be murdered. Finalist in the 2003 Dream Realm Awards. Winner of the 2004 IP Book Awards.The Hole, published by LTD ebooks is one in a series of cop stories. There are unusual happenings in the quiet suburb of Islington. People have begun to disappear. And they have been disappearing for generations. For the soon to retire Sam Kelly, this is his last case as a detective. All the clues point to a mysterious hole, which appears to have no bottom.In 2007 I was short listed for the C.B.C. Literary Contest in poetry.

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      The Writer as a Man - David Halliday

      The Writer As A Man

      by David Halliday

      Part Two of The Invisible Man

      Published by David Halliday at Smashwords

      Copyright 2016 David Halliday

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      1. Harold Loom

      My father was a wealthy man who made his fortune in real estate after World War Two. He was a dull man with a sharp mind focused on a simple plan. People needed some place to live after the war. He built the houses, the streets, the plazas, the churches, the golf course, the cemeteries that made up the expanded Six Points area. And then he had a massive stroke and he was buried in the graveyard he had built. They read his will the next Saturday. My mother was rich. I wanted to go out and celebrate. On that long weekend, I realized that I would never have to work another day for the rest of my life. I lay out on the back lawn with a bottle of scotch, stared up at the sky, and went mad.

      My mother had other plans. Too much money was not healthy for a young man. Money like water would seep into the foundations and rot my ambition. The result – an indolent and degenerate life. And so mother set up an allowance for me. It was always enough money so that I could survive and never enough so that I could live. But I was content. I wanted to be a writer. All I needed was a keyboard and a place to flop. Someday a vast fortune would be mine. My mother could not live forever, an assumption still unproven.

      And so I wrote. Not well, but often. First poetry and short stories. Serious minded work. No humor in my work. Did anyone ever laugh reading Ezra Pound? And I was published. And sometimes frequently. Especially in literary magazines that I subscribed to. And I did readings. Painful experiences in small coffee houses where those in attendance leaned forward and scratched their watches as my voice rambled on. After a decade of being in the poetry scene, workshops, readings, small anthologies, I gave up on poetry. And turned to novel writing. And by chance one night in the Zig Zag Tavern I overheard a story from the bartender about people disappearing down a mysterious black hole in someone’s backyard. I stretched the tale into a small book, submitted it to a publisher. It

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