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    Spinning Straw & Other Exit Stratagems
    Spinning Straw & Other Exit Stratagems
    Spinning Straw & Other Exit Stratagems
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    Spinning Straw & Other Exit Stratagems

    By Brian S. Parrish

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    In a pinch, timely delay can sometimes be the best exit strategy. We tend to spend a lot of time preparing for new jobs and relationships, while somewhat less in how to close out the old ones. This small poetry collection is a meditation on hopeful transitions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian S. Parrish
    Release dateNov 12, 2020
    ISBN9781005053673
    Spinning Straw & Other Exit Stratagems
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    Brian S. Parrish

    Author Brian Parrish is an awed believer in the power of story and a regular patron of the dreaming. However, he's best known as a virtual stunt pilot, human cannonball coach, Indianapolis slot car racer and tender tiger tamer—in a parallel universe, that is, where his Elkhart Blue 1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS has been impounded for extraordinary parking fee accumulation. In this one, he scribbles the odd story and subscribes to the International Psychic Cat Network. He lives in the rolling red hills of Virginia with an ambling caravan of family, friends and familiars.

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