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Cory Cason
Cory Cason is a starving and destitute writer renting a tiny room in a townhouse near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Littleton, Colorado. Though he thinks he’s a writer, h...view moreCory Cason is a starving and destitute writer renting a tiny room in a townhouse near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Littleton, Colorado. Though he thinks he’s a writer, he somehow ended up wasting almost thirty years of his life employed by some of the biggest banking firms in the festering cesspool they call corporate America. He justifies this prostitution by telling himself that he did what he had to do to give his daughter a good life, no matter how big of a river of shit he had to swim across. He dealt with this situation by drinking very heavily, becoming a frequent sight at various drinking establishments throughout the greater Denver area.Despite nearly having his soul nearly wither away inside the cloth walls of a cubicle, and enduring all of the existential depravity that went with it, he never forgot about childhood dream of being a writer and remembering the book he wrote in third grade that was bound together with pipe cleaners. Notebooks of stories cluttered his room in high school. He majored in journalism at college, foolishly thinking he was going be part of the next Woodward and Bernstein, or at least about Rock n Roll for Creem magazine.The dream was dormant, save some poems and short stories, until 2012, after losing his job during great robbery, err...foreclosure crisis, he made a few submissions to a sports blog that were well received. His wife encouraged him to devote more time to his writing. After she died in 2013, he started to make a list of the good times they had together. The list items became sentences, the sentences became paragraphs, but he knew that there wouldn’t be a real story if he didn’t write about the bad times they had together as well. Cory knew that the project wouldn’t work unless he wrote with brutal honesty. It all came together for his first book, “At the End of the Dance”. He followed that up with another non-fiction book that chronicled the depths of grieving that he cleverly titled “The Next Dance”.The books moved pretty well whenever he gave them away for free. Every once in a while, somebody actually pays for a book and that’s good for $1.36 in royalties. Having figured that his “audience” was tired of him baring his soul out in words, he decided to give writing fiction it’s day in court. He titled his first novel “Still Born” but acknowledges the title may be misleading. When asked what it’s about, the author says its “a story about what it’s like to be in an insane man’s hallucinations”. A reader on Amazon gave him a five-star review and Cory claims it is legitimate. He didn’t pay anybody to do it. His second novel, “St. Jude’s Island” is the story of redemption set in a mysterious place where Karma and prayer intersect. He also has three collections of poetry that are also available on Amazon and Smashwords. He is fully aware that nobody reads poetry anymore.His third novel, "Plane, Colorado" will be released in January 2021.view less