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Pete Marchetto

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█░░░░░AN APOLOGY░░░░░░█
I look at very few works in Authonomy. When I do the victim gets most of his or her work read, likely all of it, and a full crit by email... but my doing that is a very, very rare event. It's highly unlikely I'll do it for you unless I think I'm missing a wonderful literary experience by ignoring your work. So please, don't ask me for reads, read swaps or anything else. It's certain you won't get it, I don't read people's work just because I'm asked, sorry. If that means you don't want to check out my work, fair enough. I would be the first to admit I don't deserve your time.

Please assuage my guilt here and do as I do. Only check out my work if you feel it may be worth your while to read it.

█░░░░░░About Me░░░░░░░█
Born in London, (the real one, not some God-forsaken colonial outpost); lived most of my adult life in Sheffield, (again the real one, not some pale foreign imitation, make up your own names for heaven's sake); currently living in Guilin, Guangxi Province, Peeps' Republic of China, (not the real one in England). If I may greet you in the words of Confucius, '你好性感'. I'm pretty sure he must have said it at some time, anyway.

Award-winning fiction writer, (talking about me now, not Confucius), [Yorkshire Arts' Writer's Award]; erstwhile music journalist, ['Sounds]; erstwhile independent theatre co-scriptwriter [with Liz Tomlin for 'Reflex Theatre']; erstwhile independent theatre actor ['Reflex Theatre' and others]; erstwhile youth [oh my youth]; currently heavily involved with photography and computer art work; experimental music production. All my income is from freelance writing these days, meagre pickings so far but increasing thank goodness and you - yes, you - can help. It's quite simple. Read something I've written then give me money.

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favourite books

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - 'The First Circle'
Peter Currell Brown - 'Smallcreep's Day'
George Mikes - 'How To Be an Alien'
Bill Bryson - 'Notes from a Small Island'
Lin Yutang - 'The Importance of Living'
Lin Yutang - 'My Country and My People'
Garisson Keillor - 'Lake Wobegone Days'
John Fowles - 'The Magus'
Mervyn Peake - 'Titus Groan'
Mervyn Peake - 'Gormenghast'
Vikram Seth - 'A Suitable Boy'
Doris Lessing - 'The Old Age of El Magnifico'
Herman Raucher - 'Summer of '42'
Jonathan Coe - 'The Rotters' Club'

my websites

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my books

Sunlight Strikes a Window and ....

Pete Marchetto

A collection of short stories, their themes ranging from the pain of unrequited love to the pleasure of unrequited cannibalism


EACH CHAPTER IS ONE STORY. Pick a number, any number.
Sample descriptions:
03 - Randolph Spaulding's Ingenious Anti-Theft Device (Pat. Pending). Jerry Tinkler doesn't know how close he is to death when he breaks into the home of innocent clerk Randolph Spaulding and stumbles upon his anti-theft device.
04 - Harry Timson has a dull life. He longs for something to happen and then it does. He is kidnapped by a race of intra-dimensional beings who threaten to destroy the world... unless he answers one simple question that has plagued them for millennia.
09 - Maria. Steve befriends an elderly lady and, in her home, sees a picture of a captivating young woman. He is in love, he must find her; but Maria remains stubbornly coy as to her whereabouts.
13 - Now What? When Jerry and Ron run up against a small-time, bigoted crook they can have no idea he will change their lives - and they his - forever.

Full list of descriptions here: http://www.authonomy.com/forums/threads/84404/works/

 

Chapter One

Pete Marchetto

The man within the man within the man...


A Russian-doll novel.

Paul - access father, thwarted traveller, blocked writer, creates

Dave - lost in the world of love and his girlfriend's infidelities, creates

Tom - a widowed father with too much focus on his daughter, drifting away from the world, creates

Lenny - a slick businessman with too much history, creates

Another - who with nothing has it all.

Multiple views of situations, of people, of relationships and the female ideal interplay, interact and intertwine on the path to realisation; the need to let go.

A wry post-feminist romance.

My thanks to cover model Li Meimei

 

From Darkness So Dark it Spark....

Pete Marchetto

In Victorian England, Fitzwilliam Elvira discovers the secret of Creation. God is annoyed.


A dark comic fantasy on the theme of the hubris that comes with ultimate power. Fitzwilliam Elvira, a ne'er-do-well Victorian semi-gentleman, discovers the secret of all Creation. However, if he is to exercise it it comes at a price. The destruction of the Universe itself. For Elvira this is of no consequence - it's not his Universe after all.

Its Creator, though, is not best pleased.

In a tale of the absolute corruption that comes with absolute power one man pits his wits against the Almighty... and apparently wins.

Thanks to Mickey 'the Brush' di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni for his assistance with the cover design

 

Mystic Days and Sunny Nights: ....

Pete Marchetto

A selection of six short pieces recounting my experiences hitching around Europe and Scandinavia in the 1980s.


1. The Novice Foreigner
What's it like to just dump everything and head abroad with thumb upraised?

2. Changing Places
Something new, something old revisited; never the same. You can only go forward, never go back

3. Character
What are these strange foreign types like?

4. One Sunny Night
Walking over the mountains from Sweden to Norway bathed in the light of the midnight sun

5. East Germany
A trip to East Germany shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall

6. A Few Tips
How to do it, how not to do it, and why on earth would you want to do it anyway?

 

Fuzzy Engravings of Heavenly W....

Various 'Authonomy' Writers

Many writers, one word at a time. Please support the campaign to get it to the desk for the weirdest HC review ever.


One word per person at a time, a tale has grown. All the ingredients of a best-seller - ie., words - but fairly randomly distributed.

Some choice extracts:▲▲▲▲

▼Lustre shone gracefully across the fields, where rainbows spanned dewdrops condensing from morning clouds, floating precipitously over time. Footprints fade, bringing pathways to an end. Winged sunshine proffered flight of nights cloaked. Bats, starlight-dancing shadows, create dreamy mystifications. Cobwebs intertwine moist mountains peeping over thinning moments of departure. Fowls spiraling on whimsical updrafts chatter joyously. Hidden crevices hold feathered offspring awaiting scrumptious regurgitations of sky-pudding. Evaporating dew, scintillating smells of spring effervescent, wafting aloft.

▼Malfoy likes humbugs, artistically placed next door.

▼Perilously near the fire crackers - "Quick! Fetch a bucket and douse the flaming Pope!" cried Amaryllis, who removed his swastika before revealing paunch and thighs. Serendipity stepped forth, grotesque. Encircling curlicues spewed. Chunky carrots mixed with custard landed upon the wrong Pope, squashing His Holiness's crozier into mangled pastel shades of puce.

▼Wintertime arrived slowly, bringing penguins to adore themselves without hope.▲

▲▲▲▲Audio, text and artwork: https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=9a1a5c301caf0291&resid=9A1A5C301CAF0291!8941&parid=root

Cover - Lisa Scullard

 

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