What happens when you add dark humor to issues of mental illness and neurosis? You get such things as an anxiety disorder as a narrator, appealing to its "victim" to recognize the uses of anxiety; a repressed writer spending an afternoon with God and reading his more risque material to him; an unfeeling person trying to eek out some pain at his sister's deathbed; a capitalist-psychiatric case study of "consumption deprivation disorder"; and a narcissist whose downfall is engineered by his more humanitarian alter ego. With thirteen stories, "Still Smiling at Twilight" includes flash fiction as well as longer stories. Not indulgingly neurotic or self-involved, the stories play with mental health issues from a variety of angles. They use narrative style, structure, and viewpoint to help bring out moods that aren't always possible in conventional writing. Binding: Paperback Genre: literary/psychological Publisher: Mike Marcoe TO ORDER THE BOOK: Send name, address, and number of books with a check or money order for $15.97 each to: Mike Marcoe 1237 South Dewey St. #108 Eau Claire, Wis. 54701 (Or order a PDF copy for $8.97)

"This is the work of a very talented writer." -- Reviewer: JF, author-therapist from Wisconsin "First let me say, I'm glad I'm not married to you!" -- Reviewer: LMM, Wisconsin banker

I am an author and editor from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I began writing at the age of eight; in my adult years, I have written financial education tutorials for several major financial companies, and have written short self-help books, psychological drama stories, and social science articles. I am also a self-employed editor in the social science, personal finance, and fiction markets. My favorite non-work activities include hiking, biking, and vegetarian cooking. I graduated from the UW-Madison with a degree in English. My current fiction project is a book of connected flash fiction stories, in the vein of the movie "Slacker."

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