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    Almost Night
    Almost Night
    Almost Night
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    Almost Night

    By A.E. Ash

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    Acclaimed poet and author A.E. Ash's first collection with Pine Float Press, "Almost Night" floats through a world of skewed melancholy, where the familiar landscape of the everyday is made strange. "Almost Night" is a singular work, an uneasy meditation on the language of our past and an incantation that leaves the reader transformed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateSep 21, 2015
    ISBN9781329567795
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      Book preview

      Almost Night - A.E. Ash

      Almost Night

      ALMOST NIGHT

      by

      A.E. Ash

      pinefloat1 copy

      Published by Pine Float Press

      Copyright © 2015 A.E. Ash

      All Rights Reserved

      Photo by Andy Gainey

      Used with permission

      HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER (Basic Recipe)

      --Turn on your oven to 350 degrees then tune your radio to the hissing static between AM stations.

      --Feel deep inside your yearning soul something that you can’t exactly name. Note that it writhes within your guts and whispers your name when you are not really sleeping.

      --Experience a sudden keen and clarion sense of purpose. This purpose will drive you to find a small box with a tightly-fitting lid.

      --Don’t forget to turn off the oven.

      --Clear your work-space, sharpen the scalpel or box-cutter and gather the necessary crafting supplies from a local scrap-booking or auto-parts store. Biology labs suffice as well but only if they are funded corporately.

      --Glue pictures of bones inside and outside of your small box and its tightly-fitting lid. Some good bones are femurs, ulnas, tarsals and metatarsals.

      --(Mandibles provide the best

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