Robert Chastain

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More than fifty years dancing with the muse. A bad habit, I sometimes think, and I've tried many times to quit her. But I'm still mesmerized and helpless before my addiction. And love. The desperation of the need. That mystery of what it is to be a human animal. Growing old. And not a damn thing you can do about it. If you live a long time, the people in your life will begin dying off. And not a damn thing you can do about that, either. Read in sequence, these stories form a loose narrative arc in each of the four sections. Some stories are twelve pages, and some are twelve syllables.