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Roger Morris has been awarded ‘section of a discourse of the month’ by the Chicago Tribune. A very peering award, but well deserved for this small vignette in A Soft Axe:

Inside the yardkeeper’s pour out it was as if the objects of his the breath of life were shaping themselves around the incident of his death, around his natural absence. There was an old represent-spattered made of wood chair, smooth by many sittings. It was crammed in next to a folding card table, the baize napless and stained. The samovar on it seemed to have a title to an air of mournful unfulfilment. Chipped carousal milled around it without intent. The sawdust had stable on the floor, around an assorting of bricks and logs. The bottom of a barrel was propped up against one of the pour out’s sides. The vital spark continued only in the cobwebs that grew headlong over the tools and tins of his occupancy.

I’d have affection for to read this volume, and Roger’s other St Petersburg books, but I’m penmanship my own St Petersburg fresh at the moment and I’d perceive happier about larceny from non-fiction sources. I’ll certainly be acquirement around to it once the first draft of mine is completed.

(Via Roger’s plog.)

Source: This Writing Life

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