Gorbachev on the Phone (eBook, ePUB) - Babiuk, Darvin
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In the 1980s, when I was studying for my Masters degree in Soviet History, one of my mentors intrigued me with a story of one of his past students managing to improbably reach the putative and later reviled saviour of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Alexander Kerensky, on the phone. Through the years, that story has somehow stayed with me, fodder for a short story that somehow stayed in incubation and refused to be born. Soon after him telling me that story, history repeated itself with Mikhail Gorbachev, and my incubation got a new protagonist to replace Kerensky. Still, it refused to be born.…mehr

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In the 1980s, when I was studying for my Masters degree in Soviet History, one of my mentors intrigued me with a story of one of his past students managing to improbably reach the putative and later reviled saviour of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Alexander Kerensky, on the phone. Through the years, that story has somehow stayed with me, fodder for a short story that somehow stayed in incubation and refused to be born. Soon after him telling me that story, history repeated itself with Mikhail Gorbachev, and my incubation got a new protagonist to replace Kerensky. Still, it refused to be born. It took the decision to close my own son's high school, the oldest in Canada, to take it out of stillbirth and breathe life into it.

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Darvin Babiuk writes novels, short stories, articles, shopping lists, and has more than once been considered a write-off. He hopes to be around to write his own obituary. Had he not been untalented and lazy, he'd be a professional hockey player. Friends say he has never been the same after the tragic incident that took place in the 1984 Moose Factory cribbage tournament. His turn-ons include women with mustaches, Men Without Hats (The musical group, silly!), honey Dijon mustard and leopard frogs. If he were a vegetable, he'd be a beet, pithy but misunderstood. He wishes he could write like Scarlett Johansson looks. He is a born-again critic and a card-carrying library patron. As a child, he was an imaginary playmate. He is currently working on a mystery series set in Vancouver and a comic/magic realism novel about hockey. He welcomes inquiries from agents or publishers.