Birding in the Face of Terror
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A Sort of Homecoming: Central Coast Revisited, 2010
Birding in the Face of Terror began as a short story completed a few months after 9/11/01, with little beyond a journalistic account of the events on and around the… Read more.
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Birding — From China with Love: The Landmark Tours
In Act IV of “Birding”, I spent a good deal of time describing Pedro’s bus trips with Chinese tourists to Yellowstone and many other national parks of the West in… Read more.
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Birding — Pedro and Nadia
As many of you know or might guess after reading it, both narrators, Joseph and Pedro, are based on “JP’, my actual civilian name. But Pedro is the main vehicle… Read more.
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Birding: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Yes, I know. Typically a book is written first, then the movie is made based on the book (and the book is inevitably better), and in the process of making… Read more.
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Excerpt from “Birding in the Face of Terror” — Act V
In this scene, Pedro is alone, heading out for his third tour of duty on an account that his company has been serving through the summer of 2001. It involves… Read more.
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Excerpt from “Birding in the Face of Terror” — Act IV
Pedro spent much of Act III ruminating on the very limited knowledge he had of the national crisis on the East Coast, and his incredulousness over the group leaders’ decision… Read more.
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Excerpt from “Birding in the Face of Terror” — Act II
At the end of Act I, the reader is reminded of something subtly mentioned in the Prologue: this entire story takes place on September 11, 2001. There is a second… Read more.
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Excerpt from “Birding in the Face of Terror” — Act I
In keeping with the theatrical motif established by the Prologue, “Birding” is divided into acts rather than chapters. Act I begins with the introduction of the primary first-person narrator, Pedro,… Read more.
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