semantikon feature literature
December 2007
Paul A. Toth
works
1. Exclusive Excerpt of Paul A. Toth's New Novel "Fugue"

          Chapter 8
       ... Begin
       ... She left
       ... Never made coffee
       ... That night
       ... The phone
     ... Earthquake 1.0
          Chapter 7
        ... Begin
        ... That's right, Iranian
        ... Scatter them Jesus
        ... She pulled the sheets
        ... Earthquake 2.0
2. New Poetry Collection:
"Hitler: Five Impossibly Possible Love Stories"
          I.   1918
          II.  1918 Part 2
          III. 1931
          IV. 1938
          V.   1945
3. Short Story: "Necktime"
Short Film Adaptation of "Necktied"
by Tom Shell/Paul A. Toth
"Knotted"
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"Earthquake 2.0, from Fugue"
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Paul A. Toth is a Flint, Michigan native now living on Sanibel Island, Florida. Paul’s previous works includes critically acclaimed novels “Fizz” and “Fishnet”,and short story works including “The Pop Lady Comes on Wednesday” which earned him an honorable mention for the work, and a slot in the “17th Edition of the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror”. His audio work, which often combines story and music, has been widely published, and he produces tracks for Mad Hatters' Review. Two films, "Fizz" and "Knotted", have been based on his stories. The latter was a semi-finalist on Triggerstreet and was also a IFilm Plus Selection.

Paul’s essays on music, sexuality, psychology, literature and art have appeared in a number of journals including salon.com. Currently, Paul acts as fiction editor for storySouth.

This feature includes a web exclusive excerpt form his new novel "Fugue"

To learn to more about Paul, visit:

paulatothblog.blogspot.com

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Exclusive Excerpt: "Fugue"
A New Novel by Paul A.Toth

Chapter 7 Continued: Earthquake 2.0

Birth: wallop; light; surplus skin...Land ho.
Clouds, wind, drizzle: "Director-style," she said.
She of whiskey mountain, high after dusk,
loosely of the Biblical persuasion.
I rise, wide-eyed at the worldwide conflict.
I fear but hear animal messages.
No felonies, minus imagining.
I remain question stuffed, query weighted.
Who invented the lightbulb, aeroplanes?
We build fate with help from the mystical.
We come from cracked eggs, turtle time, no shell.
"Accept it," they say, except I'm breakfast.
I go soprano, singing in my sleep.
On the way out: frogs; sun; Indians; blood.
No, don't speak of fate; don't speak of choices.

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