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PublisherUnitarian Universalist Association

ISBN-101558968431

ISBN-139781558968431

eBay Product ID (ePID)17038735717

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Book TitleIn Time's Shadow : Stories about Impermanence

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Inspiration & Personal Growth, Essays

GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Fiction, Literary Collections

AuthorMarilyn Sewell

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight0.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-028921

Table Of ContentPreface REACHING OUT FOR LOVE Mourning Becomes Electra My Movie A Shared Silence The Nature of the Beast Why I Like Going to the Dentist Cover Your Heart, Reach Out Again The Past Is Not Even Past RESISTANCE TO CHANGE Becoming Clear Blooming Serial Killer To Be Held, and to Hold Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Holding On Fly Away DENIAL OF DEATH Death in Springtime Letter to Delta Airlines Customer Service Mammogram Memorial Fidelity Dreaming Lola Right on Time For Some Time I Thought There Was Time Not Afraid LOSS BRINGS ANGER. GRIEF, REGRET Melissa The Way of All Flesh The Fly God The Day My Books Fell Urban Lesson What We Say When There's Nothing Left to Say Visit to Father at the State Hospital THOSE WHO HOLD US, THEN AND NOW The Doll Unimportant Things I Remember How Love Stays The Nightgown How I Got Saved The Wind Under My Wings The Unguarded Face of Love DEATH CATCHES UP WITH US Ways I Don't Want to Die The Visitor A History of Her (Very Short) Sex Life Not the Kind of Man Mercy and Truth Have Met Together THE MEANING OF LIFE What We Have Left Things They Will Not Say about Me in My Obituary but I Wish They Would Love Letters from God The Exorcist Eclipse Why I Don't Tidy Poesy What Is the Question? How We Remember Them Epilogue Acknowledgments

SynopsisMinister, author, and activist Marilyn Sewell reflects on the everyday, the places we live and work, the thoughts we all have but hardly ever share, though they may carry the most profound of our human concerns. Using a variety of short literary forms--dramatic monologues, vignettes, letters, prose poems, lists, surrealistic tales--Sewell presents quirky, ironic, and compassionate slices of life that will bring laughter and at the same time take you deeper into the mysteries of existence. Sewell pushes for the thin, startling light beneath the confusion and chaos of our daily living: a woman worries that her cat loves her partner more than her; a man and a woman talk past each other in a therapy session; a lonely woman is distressed because her plant has stopped blooming. Together these short, compelling readings shine a light on the cultural incongruities and inanities which crowd our existence. We love, we lose, we die, and through it all, we ask, "What's it all about?", "Through the spaces between people in these beguiling fictions, love wanders like a ghost, offering whispered hints of solace against a backdrop of isolating divisions. In the spirit of the enigmatic stories of Lydia Davis, Isak Dinesen, Yasunari Kawabata, and other masters of the ironic parable . . . " --Kim Stafford, author of 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do In In Time's Shadow , minister, author, and activist Marilyn Sewell reflects on the everyday--the places we live and work, the thoughts we all have but hardly ever share--though these musings may carry the most profound of our human concerns. Using a variety of short literary forms, ranging from dramatic monologues, vignettes, and letters, to prose poems, fantasy, and more, Sewell's fiction offers insightful, compassionate slices of life that will bring laughter and, at the same time, take you deeper into the mysteries of life: a lonely woman is distressed because her plant has stopped blooming; marriage partners talk past each other in a therapy session; a man comes across a ragtag street band in New Orleans and reconsiders his life choices. These short, compelling readings reveal the cultural incongruities and inanities that crowd our lives. We love, we lose, we die, and through it all, we ask, "What's it all about?" Sewell invites us to ponder with her and perhaps come to trust our common humanity and our most noble instincts.

LC Classification NumberPS3619.E975I53 2019