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    Glass Moon over Images of Sand: A Collection of Brief Narratives
    Glass Moon over Images of Sand: A Collection of Brief Narratives
    Glass Moon over Images of Sand: A Collection of Brief Narratives
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    Glass Moon over Images of Sand: A Collection of Brief Narratives

    By Edel Romay

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    Glass Moon Over Images of Sand presents a collage of brief narratives woven to stir the imagination. In these pieces, the author creates absurd realismthe coexistence of the absurd within what people call human reality.

    This book speaks to its readers with real fiction of edited memories. This collection of short narratives exposes readers to contemplate yesterday as a dream. Romay describes it as something like what some writers experience within that encounter with absence when they internalize themselves into a sheet of blank paper in the present progressive digital world. Unquestionably, that yesterday that once was today is suspended in that labyrinth of memory.

    After all, this narrative subscribes to the premise that Reality only exists in language. The reason is that the reality of this work manifests itself if readers continue to read itoffering more than one reading.
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    PublisherPalibrio
    Release dateSep 27, 2012
    ISBN9781463338299
    Glass Moon over Images of Sand: A Collection of Brief Narratives
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    Edel Romay

    Edel Romay nació en San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, México. Estudió pedagogía en la Escuela Normal "Enríquez C. Rebsamen". En la Universidad, Veracruzana estudió arquitectura, artes plásticas, filosofía y matemáticas. En 1966, fijó su residencia legal en Berkeley, California, en los Estados Unidos (EE. UU.), donde obtuvo su licenciatura en la Universidad de California en Berkeley. La maestría en ciencias de la Universidad de Hayward. y el Ed.D. en la Universidad de San Francisco. Actualmente se encuentra retirado de su carrera docente. Sin embargo, ha retomado su pasión por las artes plásticas y la literatura. Edel es un intelectual de la mitología y la cosmología, un hombre de vasta cultura y de una imaginación excepcional. Ya sea como poeta, pintor, escultor, narrador o fotógrafo aficionado, su arte nos lleva a un mundo cuántico de la memoria onírica.

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      Glass Moon over Images of Sand - Edel Romay

      Copyright © 1999, 2012,2014 by Edel Romay.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2012916599

      ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-4633-3828-2

         Ebook   978-1-4633-3829-9

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Rev. date: 02/20/2014

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      To all those women who, without even knowing it, fueled my passions.

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      Contents

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      AUTHOR’S NOTE,

      I TELL YOU

      ORGY OF BUBBLES

      I CONFESS

      THE COQUETTISH PLUMROSE MOON

      SYRINX AND THE FAUN

      EVIDENT APPARITIONS

      LOVERS

      LOVER AND FRIEND

      CANDELA

      CONVERSACIÓN ACROSS A MIRROR

      IN THE DISTANCE FROM THE PORT

      KRONOS IS NOT ON MY SIDE

      UNA NECESIDAD PERMANENTE POR AMAR

      ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP

      A LOOK INTO THE MIRROR

      [?]

      IN AN INSTANT

      THE TAUTOLOGY OF NOTHINGNESS

      APERÇU1

      REFLECTIONS ON Ψ

      THE SHADOW OF A SHADOW

      THE FOURTH VERTEX OF AN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE…

      CIAO PESCA’O

      INTIMATE UNFOLDING MADNESS. AND SEMICOLON;

      SNAIL GOING TOWARD THE SOUTH

      SNAIL GOING TOWARD THE EAST

      SNAIL GOING TOWARD THE NORTH

      SNAIL GOING TOWARD THE WEST

      SNAIL GOING WHEREVER IT’S GOING, REMAINS IN THE CENTER

      LA FUENTE…

      THE CABALLITO DEL DIABLO…

      THE TLACONETE…

      THE GREEN LIZARD

      THE SILKWORM…

      THE BLUE BUTTERFLY…

      THE FOUNTAIN…

      MEXARGEN

      LA TRILOGÍA DEL YO EN INGLÉS

      THE CHALLENGE…

      CONTEMPLATING THE REMAINS OF AN ANCESTRAL MEMORY

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I owe thanks to my good friend and colleague in letters, poet and author Roberto Perezdiaz¹ who skillfully translated my work. I am also grateful to another long-time friend April McMahon² for her humorous insights and inspired editing. And with the same enthusiasm thanks are due to Marsha Polovets³ for her meticulous reading more careful than mine.

      1. He has studied at the University of California at Berkeley, El Colegio México, in Mexico City and Antioch University. Roberto Perezdiaz is a retired FCCI (Federally Certified Court Interpreter) after 26 plus years working in the US District Court in El Paso, Texas.

      2. April McMahon holds an M.A. in English and French Literature. She has also studied other languages and literatures, including Spanish, German, Russian, Arabic and Sanskrit.

      3. Marsha S. Polovets, holds a B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Marsha speaks Russian and Spanish and is an avid reader of Spanish literature. Her senior thesis explored the identity of Jewish Argentine women.

      AUTHOR’S NOTE,

      not as an excuse, maybe as an attempt to put some ideas in their place. Because the reality of this narrative is genuine emotion, that later will blossom as true fiction about certain edited memories. In other words, the reality that you once lived intensely, now, seen from another angle, probably approaches a collage of brief narratives. For example, in those fleeting moments of happiness, or those unending periods of bitterness, there was both love and un-love. You had women that love you and you left and there were those women that you loved and also left you. However, they all, to some degree, some more some less, left you here and there with a secret code phrase that you now have begun to decipher. That she is intelligent and attractive…goes without saying. You have always been captivated by at least those two qualities in women and if she is also sensitive, loving and a little crazy… nirvana! You have fallen in her trap. That is probably the reason why even today you still ask yourself the same question: What came first, the word or the image? Accordingly, from 1980 to 1999, I wrote brief narratives that I left forgotten in my desk drawer. In 2004 I had the opportunity to travel to Spain; I took my writings thinking that somehow I could publish them. However, the pleasure of traveling was more seductive and I travel much. This collection was dropped into the drawer. On

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