Diminishing Return
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2019
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.World of Books Inc
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Condition: Used - Very good
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We are all recycled people. Time has stopped and people are no longer living in the Present Pause. Disenchanted with Nostalgia Incorporated's Time Travel Experience and the memory loss it causes, a former musician turned sanitation worker spends his time sorting through a lonesome world of trash left behind by humanity while he composes a letter to his younger self. The desire for the most insignificant of changes may be his last desperate connection to existence. When he meets a dead girl, the subject matter of his letter changes. Her apparent suicide has been halted by the Pause, leaving a bullet spinning, locked in time next to her head. Their interactions bleed into his letter and he begins to understand that her wisdom reaches far beyond his comprehension. As his letter and his compassion for the dead girl grow, he questions his desire for time to continue. The only thing more important than remembering the past is making sure you're not living in it.
Seller Inventory # CIN1799145247VG
- Title
- Diminishing Return
- Author
- Joseph D Newcomer
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1799145247
- ISBN 13
- 9781799145240
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About the Author
Joseph spends his spare time photoshopping his daughter, Ari, and his girlfriend, Andrea, (the two greatest loves of his life) into art from comic books and building Ari's comic book collection. Other members of the family include their Boxer, Harvey, and Coonhound, Cooper. Despite their efforts to teach her how to say both of their names, Ari insists on calling them both Cooper. Her language skills are developing, but she doesn't quite grasp the hard "C" sound yet. For the time being, both dogs are Pooper. Joseph would not mind if it stayed that way forever.
(*Update: Harvey is now "Arvey", Cooper is still, and will hopefully always be, "Pooper.")
Joseph is happy to answer any questions about his life, his work, or any inquiries regarding signed materials or events in which anyone would like for him to participate. Contact him through josephdnewcomer.com or josephdnewcomer@gmail.com
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