Thoughtwall Café - Miller, Cameron
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This fierce story rifles the turbulence of mind encountered in the twenties. Life's third decade mercilessly right-sizes the dreams of childhood and sometimes, buffeted by forces beyond our control, diverts us completely. The narrative hovers around a tangle of friends and strangers interconnected by both serendipity and intention, and unfolds across the tables of a sprawling, urban café. Place is as much a part of this story as the characters, providing subliminal images and intrigue for the events. Cressida Fruith, who changed her name in high school from Ruth while pulling an Emo persona…mehr

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This fierce story rifles the turbulence of mind encountered in the twenties. Life's third decade mercilessly right-sizes the dreams of childhood and sometimes, buffeted by forces beyond our control, diverts us completely. The narrative hovers around a tangle of friends and strangers interconnected by both serendipity and intention, and unfolds across the tables of a sprawling, urban café. Place is as much a part of this story as the characters, providing subliminal images and intrigue for the events. Cressida Fruith, who changed her name in high school from Ruth while pulling an Emo persona over her life, is coming apart at the seams. An only child of a single parent with no extended family, she watches helplessly as her mother's cancer progresses. Even the friendship of her oldest and best friend begins to fray. Enter Hobart Wilson, a much-maligned outcast stoner from her high school days. Infuriating Cressida, Hobart becomes her mother's closest companion, and confessor of a secret so dark it will change her future. Woven and twisted within the narrative by the characters and their relationships are archetypal psychological and spiritual battles, even ordinary conundrums ("thoughtwalls") that nearly everyone encounters. More than one "Ah ha!" is seeded amidst the dialogue and action, which makes this a compelling story with real-time implications. Laugh, cry, and steam as these twenty-somethings do battle with pernicious struggles of the mind, and sometimes prevail where even Socrates and Freud fumbled.
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Autorenporträt
Cameron Miller has been thinking and writing about the ordinary sacred hiding in plain sight for decades, first as an Episcopal preacher in trade journals, magazines, and websites, and then professionally as a writer and poet. "Last Will & Testament, A Preacher's Memoir in Poetry and Prose." will be released this December (2024) by Unsolicited Press. In addition to his first collection of poems and essays, "Cairn" (Unsolicited Press, 2020), he has two novels in publication: "Steam Room Diaries" (DAOwen Press, Canada, 2015) and "Thoughtwall Café: Espresso in the Third Season of Life" (Unsolicited Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in print anthologies from Poetry Quarterly, The Poet's Quest for God (UK), Crossroads, Inwood Indiana Press, and Le Mot Juste. Cameron lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York where he writes a weekly column for the Finger Lakes Times as well as publishes on his website: www.subversivepreacher.org.