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The Future of Zero Tolerance: The Collected Short Stories of Neil Baker
The Future of Zero Tolerance: The Collected Short Stories of Neil Baker
The Future of Zero Tolerance: The Collected Short Stories of Neil Baker
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Absurdity, social realism, and the indepth examination of the human condition are but a few of the themes that comprise the contents of the seventythree short stories breathing menacingly between the covers of this book. Humor attacks surrealism on a landscape sun-saturated with saintly thought and intense clarity creations first simple act of pure effervescence getting drowned.
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateFeb 13, 2014
ISBN9781491807491
The Future of Zero Tolerance: The Collected Short Stories of Neil Baker
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Neil Baker

Neil Baker is a novelist, short story writer, poet, artist, and world-renowned psychic. Neil holds a degree in Psychology and has been a psycho-dramatist for a private psychiatric hospital. He has also managed a theater, a candy store, a bookstore, a golf course, an all-night Seven-Eleven, and a motel. He has been a library page, a children's activities director, a senior citizens' activities director, an actor, a gravedigger, a Big Foot tracker, and a professional psychic and medium. Neil is also the co-host of a podcast, "The Neil and Kristin Baker Psychic Hour," and is currently in the process of writing his first non-fiction book with his wife, Kristin Baker. Neil has conducted over 100,000 personal readings and has accomplished this variety of roles while maintaining a somewhat questionable existence within the severe physical contours of the earth.

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