The Right Moment

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this new collection of short stories Dactyl Literary Award winner Tom Newton once again playfully transmutes base reality into startlingly novel shapes and forms shifting paradigms from beneath the reader's feet by deftly metamorphosing quotidian banality with whimsical illusory invention. These twenty stories then curious and comic artful and surreal are acts of emancipation-written to set us free.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Part deadpan comedian part sleight-of-hand artist part Sybil but mostly narrative poet Tom Newton delivers a new collection of stories that describe realities that act like language referring to things outside of themselves. Pointing either to symbols or to jokes or to facts the effect is a stunning animation of words.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>-V.N. Alexander author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Naked Singularity</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>If Newton were a jazz musician he'd be like Eric Dolphy. Such are his improvisational skills the twists turns and liberties his stories take. He delves into mysteries only to discover more of them layered and disordered. And often he leaves them for us to solve.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>-Mark Morganstern author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Joppenbergh Jump</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The House of the Seven Heavens</em></p>