Visions of my Other Self: A novella

by Thomas Timmins

Overview

Smoke

My other self cries out in her crow voice, more wind in it than snarl...from somewhere, there, off to my left...he sits there in the clearing, in a grassy bowl at the bottom of the hill...he's smoking, watching me...a tall hat of smoke rises around his head...where's your brother, he asks me...he gets up from his rock chair... where's your shining stone house I say...maybe my brother is there I say...maybe your brother is there he laughs...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997028744
Publisher:	Zoetown Media
Publication date:	03/28/2016
Pages:	82
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Thomas Timmins was born in rural Iowa. He somehow won the genes-and-family lottery when he inherited natural happiness coupled with a skeptical eye. Despite the gifts of love and empathic values he received, he's had his magic carpet pulled out from under him many times. He stays aloft because of his four magnificent children and their miraculous lives and children. Thomas has published and performed his poetry and short fiction in person and in print across the U.S. and on the internet. With poet friends, he founded Fractals, a literary tabloid and ran Poets and Players, a community performance series.

Having had more jobs than most itinerant workers, he turned the experiences into fodder for his literary work and confidence to found, create and manage his own projects for a living and for community service. Thomas developed and taught writing and coaching programs for inmates, published commercial writing, founded, managed, and advised several small businesses ranging from soyfoods to ice cream to telephone fundraising to biological pest control to a video game start-up to energy efficiency retrofits and a media company. (Some might think all of these projects reveal an innate instability, though Thomas believes it's more about the Crooked Path he and everyone meander.)

Zoëtown Media is making available several other of his compositions ranging from a graphic novel, a novella and short stories, poetry, and 5 Gifts of Bright Presence©, true accounts of encounters with an acausal positive force in the natural world.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS:
Rain
Path
Shadows
Frogs
Ridge
Fog
Smoke
Rumble
Dew
Hill
Bridge
Clouds
Slice
Father
Whip
Children
Legs
Ships
Hawk
Slide
Ragdoll
Fish
Girl
Seagulls
Osprey
White light
Soaked
Gale
Ice
Bears
Deer
Bull
Blue legs
Giggling
Dog food
Laughing
Whips
Osprey
Body
Purple bruise
Face
Sobbing
In your cave
Necklace
Night's end
Knocking from underground
Irrigation
Standing at the mouth
Secret home
Across the lake
Spying
Emergence
New leaves
Fog
Green flowers
Naked children
Blood
Meat
Afraid
Inside my chest
Road building
Inside
Digging
Notes
Leap
Silent language
Near hill
Listening
Shortcut
Heart"