D is for Dragon

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The Hearthside is a blog for the writings of Nathaniel Hart. Check out the sample stories to the right. Check Below for updates on appearances, readings, and current work.

12 January 2012

Book Release Party! 6:30 PM, 2/2/2012 at the Alberta Street Pub

The headline says it all! Come on down to the Alberta Street Public-house for the release of Water Rounded Stones. I will be reading stories from the book on stage and books will be available for purchase (in paperback, can't do the e-book in person, for obvious reasons). I'll even sign it, if you like. No cover charge or expectations, just come on down, bring a friend, and help me make it a big event!

The reading and release will be at the Alberta Street Pub, located at 11th and Alberta. Show is at 6:30 PM on February the second (Groundhog Day). Run-time should be three stories in 60 mins, stay for some or all.

See you there!      

Water Rounded Stones

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From life’s storms I am water rounded stone,
From life’s hearth fires I am full-cured mud brick,
From life’s leave taking I am bone become rock,
Death marvels at me.

~ Grandmother Behigha

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Water-Rounded Stones is a story about storytellers. This grouping of short stories, engages with the idea of stories from science fiction, to fantasy, to modern character studies.
From the bleak similarities found in four people living at the four corners of time in Mingled, to the denial of entropy and sorrow in The Poet's Secret, to the ever present now of recollection in Five Season in Rudren, this collection dwells on Story, rallies around it, and embraces it
While the stories themselves often have little in common in terms of their place, time, or subject matter, Water-Rounded Stones ties them together with shared ideas and themes. The metaphors and similes of one story create echoes in another, just as many diverse stones may share the bed of the same stream.
Ultimately, Water-Rounded Stones is an examination of our need of stories, and hopes, with its own contribution, to sate that need as well as a hearth-fire sates cold and tired bones.  

Water-Rounded Stones Released!

It's out! Water Rounded Stones is finally out on LuLu.com in paperback or E-book. You can read the blurb to follow, or hit the link straight through to Lulu.com and checkout the storefront.  

Some of you may remember the earlier bootleg (Water-Rounded Stone Collection). Well, this is more than a second edition. Not only are there two new stories (for a total of 18 in the book) but every single story has gone through some tweaks that have made the entire work a better read. Cover and interior photos tie the whole package together. You really should check this out!