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    My Mentor, Death
    My Mentor, Death
    My Mentor, Death
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    My Mentor, Death

    By Leslie D. Soule

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    "And now the ghosts and the dust settle in on my heart and I have no children, no apple trees, or sunshine. Only tears."

    My Mentor, Death is a collection of over 40 of Leslie D. Soule's best poems, meditating on modernity, loss, and more. With deft language and cutting wit, Soule's poetry illuminates the twisted landscape of the 2

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTerror House Press, LLC
    Release dateSep 11, 2020
    ISBN9781951897215
    My Mentor, Death
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    Leslie D. Soule

    Leslie Soule is an author who likes to experiment within the fantasy genre. She is the author of the novel Fallenwood and she lives in Sacramento, California.

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      My Mentor, Death - Leslie D. Soule

      Also by Leslie D. Soule

      Feast of Yule

      Fallenwood

      Forgetting Fallenwood

      Hybrid Space

      Betrayer

      Greek Fire: A Collection of Tales Retold

      Retribution

      Copyright © 2020 Terror House Press, LLC.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means (whether electronic or mechanical), including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, events, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      ISBN 978-1-951897-21-5

      EDITOR

      Matt Forney (mattforney.com)

      LAYOUT AND COVER DESIGN

      Matt Lawrence (mattlawrence.net)

      Excerpts of this book were published, in somewhat different form, by the following magazines and websites: The Armchair Aesthete, Ink and Voices, New Plains Review, Terror House Magazine, and The Write Launch. The author would like to thank each publication for their support.

      TERROR HOUSE PRESS, LLC

      terrorhousepress.com

      Table of Contents

      It Helps Me Understand You

      There is a Place Inside

      Part for Whole

      Heartsick/Mindspent

      A Piece of Your Soul

      Throwing Paper

      Met an Angel Once

      A-3, the Cashier Bot

      Bran Castle

      When I Miss You

      Rum and Pepsi

      Death of the Prince

      It’s Time

      Dido of the Flames

      Maybe You’ll Burn Me

      Futuristic Body/Visionary Mind

      Should I Break

      The Second Dante

      Gray Old Witch

      To the Crossroads

      Pecking Up the Evidence

      My Mentor, Death

      Shipwreck

      When the Reaper Came for Me

      No Going Back

      The Day You Died

      In the Moonlight

      The Black Unicorn’s Decree

      Briefly

      The Rules of War

      Magic

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