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    Reprobates
    Reprobates
    Reprobates
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    Reprobates

    By Louise Blackwick

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    Freshly arrived at the Totermann Inn, Marc Whitehouse couldn’t have known he was dead. Sir, no sir. Not now that Chantal Dublanc had so mysteriously entered his life; his afterlife. In his quest for the truth behind his early demise, he finds himself on a journey where past memories intermingle with present actions. He is not yet ready to call it a life.

    206 heartbeats to peace. The hour is late, but Marc is yet to renounce his hope for salvation...

    A surreal novella of love, loss and the afterlife, written in the captivating, dreamlike style of André Breton. “Reprobates” is an exquisitely written narrative of Life after Life, centred on Marc’s journey through Limbo. Its style is heavy on allegory, at every step teeming with Underworld intrusions of the sacred into the profane.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCreascriptum
    Release dateOct 15, 2015
    ISBN9789492064035
    Reprobates
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    Louise Blackwick

    Louise Blackwick is a next-generation fiction writer, author of science fiction/fantasy novels, surreal short-stories and narrative poems. Blackwick is particularly known as the writer of the international bestseller "Vivian Amberville", which follows the epic adventures of a girl whose imagination can reshape reality. She is also recognized as the creator of a new niche subgenre of science-fiction: NEON SCIENCE-FICTION."Vivian Amberville - The Weaver of Odds", the first novel in a series of five books was released November 2016 on eBook and March, 2017 on paperback. It sold an estimate of 3.3 million copies worldwide and was popularly acclaimed by a score of metacritics, most of whom have compared her narrative style with C. Paolini, J.K. Rowling and E.R. Eddison.For short fiction, Blackwick main influences were the father of surrealism André Breton, the twisted storyteller Edgar A.Poe and the existentialist Kafka. At times, she unweaves the general conventions of space and of time, bending them at odd angles into a mesmerizing and surreal dream construct.Blackwick primarily considers herself a "fantasy novelist", though the erudite complexity of her work has been appraised to exceed the genre of fantasy. For epic large-scale fiction, Blackwick greatly looks up to the legendary Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.Upcoming books from the author include: the humorous science fiction novel "God is a Robot", the sci-fi thriller "29 Seconds" and the much-awaited sequel "Vivian Amberville - The Book of Chaos".

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      A Kierkegaardian story of Limbo

      Kierkegaardian, Kafkaesque but undoubedly, Blackwickian. One of Louise Blackwick's earliest stories, a story of the afterlife, written like a trip into the subconscious, a descent into limbo and the delicate veil that separates the living from the dead. Elements of absurd are beautifully woven throughout the story, only to be releaved at the very end in a shocking twist that will leave you pondering for many days in a row. Once again, Blackwick proves she is a master of both character and storytelling. Marc Whitehouse is witty, cynnical, sarcastic, timeless and marvelously articulated, its three-dimensionality springing from the page like a living, breathing being. His world is one of life and death, a dreamlike construct in which realism is entangled with surrealism. A wonderful masterpiece I deeply recommend.

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    Reprobates - Louise Blackwick

    Reprobates

    Publishing Information

    Reprobates published by Creascriptum, October 12, 2015. The Netherlands.

    Text copyright © 2015 by Louise Blackwick. All rights reserved.

    Cover designed by Louise Blackwick, copyright © 2015 by Creascriptum.

    The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this book are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This book contains material protected under International and Federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or physically, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without express written permission from the author or publisher.

    ISBN: 978-94-92064-03-5

    Synopsis

    Freshly arrived at the Totermann Inn, Marc Whitehouse couldn’t have known he was dead. Sir, no sir. Not now that Chantal Dublanc had so mysteriously entered his life; his afterlife. In his quest for the truth behind his early demise, he finds himself on a journey where past memories intermingle with present actions. He is not yet ready to call it a life. Then again, who is? His father had passed from a broken heart; his fate is about to become Marc’s. 206 heartbeats to peace. The hour is late, but Marc is yet to renounce his hope for salvation...

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    A surreal short-story of love, loss and the afterlife, written in the captivating, dreamlike style of André Breton. Reprobates is an exquisitely written narrative of Life after Life, centred on Marc’s journey through Limbo. Its style is heavy on allegory, at every step teeming with Underworld intrusions of the sacred into the profane.

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    BARGAINING

    ANGER

    DENIAL

    DEPRESSION

    ACCEPTANCE

    Bargaining

    A quarter to midnight, business was bad as usual – Rob Sequies knew it well. Frankly, he wasn’t much bothered that fewer and fewer customers turned down the rustic cosiness of his bumpkin inn for the neighbouring four-starrer. It was why he found the unexpected arrival of what seemed to be a young couple quite unsettling. The hour was late, and he expected no one.

    ‘Two rooms please’ a lad of raven-black hair and cloudy eyes bent over the red oak counter and requested ‘one for each of us’ he appended, tossing an explanatory look at the elegant lady accompanying him.

    ‘The hour is late, lad. The inn is closed’

    ‘Please sir’ implored the woman. ‘It’s the end of the line. We have nowhere else to go!’

    ‘Alright, alright’ bade the inn-keeper dismissively. ‘Any preferences?’

    The young man’s eyebrows merged, as though he had not understood the question.

    ‘Room with a view? Wonderful view of Lethe Tarn. Probably spotted it on yer way here’

    ‘T’was too dark and foggy to see anything. Been pouring cats and dogs all week’

    ‘Would you mind one of our rustic rooms? Some marvellous display of furniture there. Dates back all the way to the Third Reich—’

    ‘—we’ll take anything you have’ said the brunet with a tint of impatience in his voice.

    ‘You cannot pay for her. I only take two quid per person’

    ‘I

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