M Thomas Apple Author Page

So there I was, deliberately dangling my friend off a cliff in central Japan. Believe me, this wasn’t in our original plan…

Language, identity, family, love, loss, sorrow, confusion, redemption—Notes from the Nineties is a collection of contemporary short stories and poems with themes ranging from family squabbles to cultural differences, with settings from Ireland to Japan:

• Cois Fharraige
• Father Knows Least
• The Firebrand
• Kannuki
• Boys Will be Boys
• The Lost Bunny Shrine of Annandale
• Pockets
• Frank
• The Four Teeth of the Apocrypha
• The Green and the Grey
• Training the Mountain Warrior

Each story is prefaced by a poem with similar or related emotional content, and features photography by the author. (Please click on story titles above for previews of each story background.)

ISBN 978-4-905426-67-7
Kinoshita Kajitsu, 154 pp.

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