Sarah O'Connor

Writer – Playwright – Cannot Save You From The Robot Apocalypse

I received this book from one of the authors in exchange for an honest review.  “Hamilton General Hospital – 21 This is where I said goodbye to my mother. I wonder where my family will say goodbye to me,” (Hamilton – A Guidebook from Memory). Hamilton A Guidebook from Memory invites readers to explore the city of …

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“It’s looking like I’m in more of a mystery now than a romance. Or maybe I’m in both. It’s all very exciting, plus a little bit creepy…I don’t pray but sometimes I talk with my mother, tell her…I’m living in one of those novels she used to like, and it’s only a matter of time …

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“Maybe this is love, the things we endure for the other, the willingness to face death, to stare it down, and not be afraid,” (Ernshaw 216). Travis Wren has a gift for finding missing people, all he has to do is touch an object belonging to the missing person and he can get an image …

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“Give me what I want, and I’ll go away,” (King 75). The Storm of the Century is coming to Little Tall Island, and while the town folk have dealt with their share of bad storms this one comes with promises of hurricane-like winds and five feet of snow, and something worse. Just as the storm begins …

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I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review.  “We may be nomadic and seem a little lost to people, but we’ve stripped away all the nonsense here. What’s the rush to get back to a conventional life? What’s the rush to go back and become good little corporate citizens, and lose …

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“Ghost stories might not all use the same words, but they all sound like the same words because it’s the ghost we think about, not the words,” (Malerman 65). Eight-year-old Bela loves Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth, and she used to like Other Mommy until she changed. Other Mommy used to make her smile, but now …

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“Pain is a God the body worships,” (Ajram 69). Vicken has planned his suicide; he will drown himself in the Saint Lawrence River after suffering from clinical depression for years. But when he gets off the subway he finds himself in a strange, endless labyrinthine station that he can’t escape. And he’s beginning to suspect he …

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I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review.  “Despair was like that, eating away at you from the inside, so that you hardly recognized it when you went dark. There was no point arguing with it at times like that. It would always win,” (Fahner 176). Lizzie Donoghue wants more out of …

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“A child’s worry was not like an adult’s. It gnawed deep, and was so unnecessary. Why did people not realize children could withstand the truth? Why did adults insist on filling children with the deceptions their own parents had laid on them, when surely they remembered how it had felt to lie in bed and …

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“When I’m in the theatre I feel held. I feel simultaneously safe and like something very dangerous is about to happen, and that dangerous thing is the wall of my chest peeling back — slowly, so slowly, in time with the curtain rising. And if the play is my play then everybody present can gather …

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