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    5 O’Clock Shadow: My Life, Abstracted
    5 O’Clock Shadow: My Life, Abstracted
    5 O’Clock Shadow: My Life, Abstracted
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    5 O’Clock Shadow: My Life, Abstracted

    By Geoff Peterson

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    Handmade Stories

    “After fifty years of living in these pieces, I can better get a grip on my psychosis,” says the author of 5 O’clock Shadow.
    Honed and smoothed to the bone, these tales bear the balm and bruises of a man’s life, abstracted. Drunkalogues, short pieces from the mouths of recovering drunks that remember how it was. “The point is, drunkalogues are not merely deviational episodes to be logged as down time, but are valuable dramas that contain the blueprint of our lives.”
    “I’m reticent to publish for fear I’ll fall over a railing to the mezzanine and land in a dumpster of store-bought roses, thorns intact.”
    Which is just another drunkalogue that didn’t make the cut. It takes place in Las Vegas in a lot outside the Review-Journal: a story that begins with a Greyhound bus and ends with same.
    “Some things don’t change,” says Peterson, “like real life and the stories that seek comfort in it.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 19, 2021
    ISBN9781665540742
    5 O’Clock Shadow: My Life, Abstracted
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    Geoff Peterson

    Born just after World War II, Peterson inherited his mother's nervous system and went on to memorize and perform poetry in a lyric vein for family and card parties. Raised Catholic, the boy learned the value of dreams, visions, and the soothing aspects of prayer in unison. He later earned degrees in Literature and Writing at Eastern Washington University, and served as poetry editor for Willow Springs Magazine. With the publication of his first novel in 1989, Peterson turned his back on mainstream publishing and has not looked back. Since 2007 he has published nearly thirty books of poetry and fiction. He lives in the Southwest and still gets around.

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