The Marching Band Emporium: A personal selection

by L. A. Davenport

Overview

Step into a magical shop on the forgotten streets of London's East End, where musical instruments tell their own stories.

In The Marching Band Emporium, L.A. Davenport weaves together an eclectic mix of short stories, poems, and mini-sagas, each filled with vivid imagination and literary charm. From the nostalgic echoes of lost novels to whimsical reflections on life and love, this collection captures moments of beauty, humor, and tragedy.

Whether it's the poignant tale of an artist facing death or the fleeting dreams of everyday lives, Davenport's work is a mesmerizing blend of wit and melancholy. Perfect for readers who enjoy the surreal and the profound, this book will take you on a journey through forgotten corners of the mind, where each note and story resonates long after the final page is turned.

Explore the haunting, the whimsical, and the heart-wrenching in this personal anthology that invites you to listen to the stories behind the instruments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781999595753
Publisher:	L. A. Davenport
Publication date:	02/14/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	156
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

L.A. Davenport was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1973. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in Medical Sciences and Archeology and Anthropology in 1996. After graduation, he worked as an editor on financial journals before moving into medical publishing, where he worked as a book, then website, editor and project manager. In 2001, he moved into journalism, and soon became a freelance medical reporter and writer, working with various news wires and publishers and covering conferences across Europe and the USA. L.A. Davenport has written several novels, numerous short stories and novellas, and countless articles and essays. He divides his time between Lincolnshire and the Côte d'Azur. Among other things, he likes long walks, typewriters and big cups of tea.

Table of Contents

• Excerpts from lost novels
• Together
• Another living room
• Dream
• Excerpts from lost novels
• Shattered-a mini saga
• Drink, drink up, my friends
• Dancer
• Excerpts from lost novels
• An artistic death-a mini saga
• The interview
• Sometimes
• Curled Up
• Excerpts from lost novels
• Morning
• Socrates in the dust
• Just a joke
• View of Place des Arcades, Antibes, France
• Excerpts from lost novels
• The rush of life-a mini saga
• Test your intelligence!
• Excerpts from lost novels
• Fort Carre, Antibes, France
• THE CANCER WITHIN
• Part I
• Part II
• Final Part
• After hearing yet another discussion of Dante's Inferno
• Excerpts from lost novels
• The box
• Marty the dapper wolf
• Is this love?
• Prisons
• Excerpts from lost novels
• The other Luther
• Shadow of me
• Every day - a mini saga
• Manhole
• The station
• Excerpts from lost novels
• Watching, waiting
• A double romance
• The rain
• Excerpts from lost novels
• Candid Café, Islington, London
• THE ELECTRIC LOVE STORY
• Yes Please!
• Plastic Heartbreak
• Feel Me
• Excerpts from lost novels
• The bridge-a mini saga
• Excerpts from lost novels
• Living, growing
• The bench
• I saw your eyes today