The
Diamond Grenade
by
Daniel Juliane
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GENRE:
Literary Fiction
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BLURB:
The Diamond Grenade is the story of a family line and a revolution told in five novellas - a complex tale told simply.
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Excerpt
Book I:
A Father’s Fate
At one
point, on the banks of a confluence where two rivers ran together
like closing thighs, there was a certain boatman. This boatman, name
of Gur, had a fine long pole (not too bendy, not too strong) with
which to move his long wide boat upon the water. Gur slept with his
pole, lest it go missing. Then one evening while he was ferrying a
few paying passengers from one put-in to the next, Gur’s pole got
stuck in thick river-bottom mud and muck and he lost his grip and the
pole sank out of sight. Cursing, Gur leapt into the water and dove
for the pole. Long minutes passed and Gur’s nubile daughter Guri,
at the prow of the boat, began to wail. Gur did not come back up.
They found him later downstream. This is how the girl Guri became a
very young boatman with a shoddy pole.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
As in
medical school, praxis then practicum: I saw one, did one, taught
one… now I do one after the other. One novella after another I
mean. And they’re good. I saw novellas while acquiring my
Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Literature/Letters with a
minor in Psych at Indiana University in the mid-nineties, I taught
and did novellas a few years later while pursuing a Master’s of
Arts in Lit. at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and I have done
a fancy set of five well here now (as I pursue an AAS in Accounting
at a community college, btw). For more about me, check out
http://dcjulian.wix.com/diamondgrenade.
Try not
to evict me from my little party of self-congratulations about this
piece.
A set of
five good serial novellas. Hope you find the time to enjoy them.
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