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    Small Wonder
    Small Wonder
    Small Wonder
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    Small Wonder

    By Matthew Brady

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    The night of Christmas Eve finds aging and embittered playwright Preston Drossel on the cusp of the unthinkable: taking his own life. He is diverted from this moment of despair, however, by a visit from a mystifying “muse” who claims she was sent to help him finish an important play. Drossel resentfully accepts, but as the night deepens, it soon dawns on him that there is more behind this visit than he could ever have expected—a visit whose purpose will remind him, however belatedly, of his own value. "Small Wonder" by Matthew Brady is a Mannison Minibook published by Mannison Press, LLC.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMannison Press, LLC
    Release dateDec 2, 2020
    ISBN9781005015435
    Small Wonder
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    Matthew Brady

    Matthew Brady is a young writer currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Belmont University, where he studied writing and literature before earning his bachelor's degree. He is the author of four novelettes and one novella through Mannison Press, with his shorter works appearing in various anthologies. His short story, "Midnight Oil," was published in the second volume of Nosetouch Press's "The Asterisk Anthology" (2018), where it won first prize in the Southern Gothic genre.

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