Sympathy for Me

Evil has a voice, and it wants to talk to you. The so-called prince of fallen angels thinks he’s the first celebrity that nobody wants to talk to, so he wants to tell you his own story. He has walked with the Christ and has lived as an angel in human form—as a body walker moving through the world’s history in stolen bodies to see what it means to be one of us. He’s working on his memoir for you to read and judge.

Rayfield A. Waller, a creative writing professor in Detroit, is noted as the first contemporary poet published in the revival of historic Broadside Press, which published his book of poems, "Abstract Blues" (sold on Amazon). He is a past recipient of the prestigious Michigan Council for the Arts writers' grant. Many of his poems can be found in the online journal "Outlaw Poetry" at https: //outlawpoetry.com/?s=rayfield+a+waller. He is a graduate of Cornell University's creative writing program and is listed in the pantheon of 'Cornell Writers". He has poems in various anthologies including "New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry", in "Nostalgia For The Present: An Anthology of Writings From Detroit" from Post Aesthetic Press, and in the Wayne State University Press anthology of Detroit poets, "Abandon Automobile". A selection of his poetry and fiction is forthcoming from Wayne State U. Press. Waller is a widely published journalist and art and music critic with works in newspapers, and academic and literary journals including Obsidian, The Panopticon Review, and Solid Ground Magazine. He is a former staff writer and contributor to "The Ithaca Times", "The Ithaca Journal", "The Detroit Metro Times", "The Michigan Citizen", and South Florida's "Progreso Weekly/Progreso Semenal". A selection of his journalism and academic articles can be found at http: //wayne.academia.edu/RayfieldWaller. He is a featured writer honored in the archive known as the "Marygrove College Literary Map of Detroit" (https: //www.marygrove.edu/22-dodge-main). Waller appeared frequently on radio in Miami, Florida and was a frequent co-host on WAXY AM 790's show, "Shock The System" hosted by Jim Nadell. Writing by Waller appears at theblacklistpub.ning.com/profile/RayfieldAWaller, and rayfieldwaller.blogspot.com. "Sympathy For Me" is his first published novel, the first in a planned trilo