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| Location | New Mexico |
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| Website | http://www.deanwest.org |
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| Location | New Mexico |
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Diplomacy at its best! Thank you, Dean (it's actually from a crime novel I wrote five years ago) I'm re-writing it at the moment, some of it is making me cringe - although I quite liked this sex - scene. However, unlike the character, I like hairy men, warts and all ;-) ps your wife sounds really nice - obviously she's the romantic one.
Thanks Dean. Glad you liked Purple Patch, what is the other piece you have read?
I meant this 'story' cheered me up! Just re-read this and realised how it sounded! Lol
Today, 1:27 pm Monday. Mothers Teeth. Fitting for me to finish on a story that made me chuckle. I sat down this afternoon with a little bit of sadness, knowing that that this was the last story on this website — I’ve read them all. This cheered me up.
Thanks, Dean, you are an amazing writer, versatile, deep, whimsical, mystical, engaging and entertaining, as I said before there is no reason literary fiction cannot entertain as well.
Now I shall disappear back into the ether — watch for me and keep believing in yourself. Okay that sounds corny, but I do corny sometimes :-)
ps Of course I know it's not just about the sex but about abandonment and yearning for that connection of love past.
Sunday morning 10:25, today Do Bullets Come.
Dean, I have pins and needles from head to toe. You used the bright light thing again like in the moon story. It’s a good transition signal — I love it.
I was held by Bill’s mood, the different scenarios and wondering which was the true version. Hoping it was the latter.
I love the raw raunchiness of this story, the truly male POV that few women writers can pull off (pardon the pun) If only women knew how important sex is/was to men and conversely, how unimportant when it was/is all going well…
Saturday - Breakdown in the middle of the Moon.
Oh, Dean I’m sitting here with tears in my eyes — not sentimental tears, just sympathetic tears, just nodding my head in understanding, tears. Bravo! Skilful change of POV, achingly real characters, enough plot to make a story you want to keep reading, memorable lines, great scene setting and underlying story glimpses. Wonderful, powerful work.
I guess I’m getting close to running out of your stories now, Dean. I’m sure going to miss them. But you have your novel (just assuming here… but also hoping…).
Friday 14th - Edible Cows.
Full speed ahead with this story, Dean.
(Those Indian people are all so polite, must have been the british influence)
Not a word wasted, top literary fiction.
(Are you really so bad? See you have me believing it!)
Thursday 12:45 Oklahoma Code. Riveted to the screen for this one, Dean. Oh, god, the telepathy, that strong connection yes! So believable. Was this a flash?
Great work!
ps I found a few typos in this, Dean, - not that that matters. Satin for Satan, shinned for shined. Ever for every. :-)
Today, Wednesday, The Returnable Bobby Lin.Dean I loved the progression of this story from preacher to birth, to Bobby — his coming of age. What a great idea — a preacher with Tourette’s – not much could be worse really. But you made it believable. The ever present conflict carrying the story on. Lots of questions unanswered, but adding to the intrigue. (BTW the other comment should’ve said – ‘I’ read this twice)
Dean, I appreciate you comment about "At the Faire." Thank you very much.
I Might Have Been Raised by Wolves.
Wow, this is powerful, Dean. You are a great poet too. Read this twice.
Lizard Lust for today, Monday.
Once again, Dean, you surprise me with your diversity. Seamless change of POV from Fred to Winfred. Two different lives led by man and lizard or are they? And in the end his woman doesn’t care and nor does Fredricka. God, this is good stuff.
The Bearded Lady, today. I loved this one, Dean. Once again an underlying tension that the sometimes light hearted narrator’s banter, makes tolerable to read. (Personally I think shaved ones are slightly paedophilic)
I’d like to read a follow up story to this, to see if they got on as well as I think they will.
Read Train Wreck. I know, I have set myself a fix of one Dean-story a day, but I read this by accident — sorry for the pun — but I clicked onto it by mistake and when I started reading couldn’t stop. You have the best opening lines, Dean. Satirical ending to this one — He just could not let sleeping dogs ‘lie’.
Saturday afternoon's reading - Lesbian Mattress. Had a laugh at the end of this one, Dean. Your characters remind me of some of Irwin Shaw’s (Just finished reading Irwin Shaw — Five Decades) Slightly off centre but still very real. Do our characters reflect ourselves? Bill has a pipe…
(What I don’t like is ‘member’, member of what, parliament?) Great story.
Thank you for taking the time to read This Girl in That Shirt. I really appreciate your thoughts.
Today, Body in the Bulrushes. "I knew that made little sense but I couldn’t fool my eyes with reason." Strangely believable, the narration was that convincing.
I love your diversity, Dean. All these stories are different but the brilliance is the same.
My fix for today was, "How Exxon Killed the Tooth Fairy"
Loved the a satire, the humour and the underlying message. Astounding work as ever, Dean.
Today, it was Fractured Prisms. Oh what a great story, Dean, of love and loss, and what two people do to cope with what they have been dealt. I particularly loved this line: "forty-three years could do that, pull the moisture out of damn near anything" (sorry this was a bit late but I had trouble logging on to Fictionaut)
Dean, thank you for reading my first post and for your thoughtful comment!
Glad to hear from you Dean. To be honest I thought you may have been on holidays or worse. It doesn't matter to me though, if you were (on holiday that is) I'm really enjoying the diversity of your writing. I can't believe that you have just started writing, surely you meant you have just started posting on here? And so many stories. Anyway, today I chose When Wolves Grow Old. Great parody, had me laughing out loud.
The Hump On my Back, today. Whimsical light-hearted. Come on Sunday.
Today Dean, A Day at the Beach with Misty - I've been looking forward to reading my daily fix and this did not disappoint. Opening lines drew me in like Misty did her schoolboy lover. Wonderful writing, this is some of the best fiction I have ever read. Until tomorrow.
A Snake in the Road (love that double meaning) just a short piece, but good:
Man 0 Snake 1 (won)
Today, Green Is Not Funny Anymore. Brilliant opening lines, a little set up of character enough to make you wonder why his first wife went like she did and so quickly. Then reading on we learn this is an analytical man to the extreme. Thanks Dean, I'm really enjoying this reading ride! Until tomorrow.
Finished reading The End Of the World and just had to read the first line again. Powerfully believable. Loved the juxtaposition with his reality and the calendar girls. Tears in my eyes at the end of The End of the World. Brilliant, brilliant work! Until tomorrow, Dean, when I will once again cathect to your work (been wanting to use that word)
Today I read Peter Rabbit and the Problem with Gravity. Drawn in right from the first line ended up reading it aloud - great stuff! Too much to mention here. I could get addicted to this and then where will I be when it runs out? Until tomorrow.
I couldn't wait - looked up your website. Blown away by your writing - Just finsihed 'When I was Thirteen and met Bernadine' Can't wait to read more. Will read one a day, eke it out like fine wine.
Some things are beyond our control, out of our time, Dean. Literary fiction in your 'About me'. More please, Myra holds out her metaphorical bowl.
That's not his pipe...
I don't know why but it's just good to see someone posing with their pipe--as if to say, hey, this is me and this is my pipe and we enjoy the heck out of smoking together.