praise for Studies in the Hereafter "a true original" - Kirkus "A soaring tribute to any human life, in all its flawed glory." - Diagram "Wild and imaginative." - Charles Yu "A novel … Read More about Sean Bernard
Studies in the Hereafter
Studies in the Hereafter
A disillusioned office bureaucrat in the afterlife has come to realize that maybe heaven isn't all it's cracked up to be. Bored by the endless routine of work, golf, and vegan food, he finds his one…
Desert Sonorous: Stories
Desert sonorous: stories
Undercover space aliens share an RV outside Tucson. A high school girl tries to make sense of the shooting of Gabby Giffords. Basketball fans stalk their team's head coach. A young couple falls in and…
Manifesto #28: Succession Planning in Time of Pandemic
1. Reminder: you are replaceable. 2. And now, in time of pandemic, there is such a good chance that you’ll become a pandemic casualty that plans must be made. 3. Anything you have begun must eventually be completed—if not by you, then by others. 4. (Anything you haven’t begun, anything you’ve merely dreamed about? Ha. […]
Manifesto #27: Despair Machine
So—you have created a despair machine! Why? Why did you create for me a despair machine? Did I look like I wanted a despair machine? Maybe so, maybe so. Fair enough. There are rules for the despair machine. Despair is not allowed outside the despair machine: the despair machine needs all the despair. One may […]
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Ordinary Bio: Sean Bernard lives and teaches creative writing at the University of La Verne in southern California, where he edits the journal Prism Review. He holds degrees from Arizona, Oregon … Read More about About