A Writer Reads
Serial reading and discussion of my novel, An Adequate Vocabulary, in my own voice.
A Writer Reads
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Episode Thirty-One - Postscript
An explanation of the genesis and evolution of An Adequate Vocabulary, and an clarification of biographical details you could not have known, and about which I may be the only one who cares.
Episode Thirty - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
In the final episode we suffer with Mick through the tedium of the DNA analysis, which in the end raises as many questions as it answers. We find the truth of Mick's parentage and birth, and experience the conflicted news of Meghan's pregnancy....
Episode Twenty-Nine - No Good Deed
Mick does a favor for Billy Baxter, that comes back to bite him. When Billy is arrested, he tries to cut a deal with the police by fingering Mick as a person of interest in a wrongful death: the death of Danny Boy Boyle, the old man in the alle...
Episode Twenty-Eight - Then Comes Marriage
Mick still seems to have trouble not using violence (or a perceived threat thereof) to accomplish his desired ends. At least this one is on the down low. Despite occasional stumbles on the way to the promised land, Meghan and Mick take the leap...