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|  | | A Plague of Darkness
A Plague of Darkness sheds light upon the sense of quiet desperation currently devastating the children of our society: Black, white, yellow or red. This plague, which we watch morph and transform itself into its differing forms every evening on our nightly news is an equal opportunity destroyer.
During a cross-country plane trip during a particularly ‘dark’ time, Payack penned A Plague of Darkness. To better illustrate (and encapsulate) the emotional toll this unseeable plague has wrecked upon the emotional lives of our children across the land, he further illustrated this essay with a series of some thirty ‘collages’ that will help you see the devastation through the mind (and eye) of the child, which remain hopeful, above all.
BR>SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Paul JJ Payack is a Silicon Valley marketing executive who has published in some dozen collections and hundreds of reviews and anthologies around the world, including The Paris Review, New Letters, Creative Computing, and Boulevard. ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />o:p>/o:p>/SPAN>BR>BR>SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">At the same time, Payack has served as a senior executive for some of the world's leading high | |  | | A Ripple in Entropy, Chthon Press
| | | | Anatomical Plates, selections in New Letters
| |  | | Children of the Mind, an Extended Metafiction
Children of the Mind describes a society where thought is rationed, the imagination considered a disease, and dreaming a subversive activity.
Also includes as a bonus, the WIND TURBINE STUDIES Collage Narrative.
I wrote Children of the Mind some twenty years ago during the early 1980s. The ‘extended metafiction’ recounts the tale of a society in which thought is rationed, where the imagination is considered a disease,and dreaming is considered a subversive activity. Persons suspected of dreaming are summarily ‘nebulized’by the Grave Registration. The “Children of the Mind” of the title are a shadowy group that insists on thinking freely. In this brief novella I experimented with what would now be considered a ‘multimedia-like’ technique, where the narrative would undergo radical, and unexpected, shift | |  | | Conversation With The WordMan
"Conversation With The WordMan" provides insight into the incisive analysis of words and language by Paul JJ Payack, The WordMan.
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DIV>I>Conversation With The WordMan/I> provides insight into the incisive analysis of words and language by Paul JJ Payack, I>The WordMan/I>. Lovers of words and language will better understand why I>The WordMan/I> has been frequently cited and quoted in the worldwide media whenever language-related questions arise:
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b | | | | Legend of the Shaman (Portfolio)
| | | | Microtales
| | | | Mortality Tales
| |  | | Mythomania
| |  | | Santa and the Ho-Ho-Ho Zone
| | | | Shortest Tomes
| | | | Solstice I , The Star-tales Cycle
| | | | Solstice II, The Star-tales Cycle
| | | | Solstice III, The Star-tales Cycle
| | | | The Black List
| |  | | The Book of Hours (An End to History, A Death to Consciousness)
| | | | The Divine Comedy: A Post-Modern Commentary
| | | | The End of Empire: The Paris Plates, selections in New Letters
| |  | | The Idea Mine: A Brief Note on Metafiction
What I present to you here is an an introduction to the Metafictional Worlds that I've created.
This Idea Mine, which consists of nearly one thousand creative works, has taken some twenty-five years to construct, create and compile.
Many of the works collected in this Idea Mine have been published insuch places as The Paris Review, Creative Computing, and the GnosisAnthology (English and Russian), while the collages have appeared insuch varied outlets as New Letters, Boulevard, and Asimov’s ScienceFiction. (For years I belonged to the Science Fiction Writers of America, but I do not classify myself as a science fiction writer.)I call this Idea Mine, or master oeuvre, Metafiction. Of course, there are logical groupings within Metafiction and a number of these have been published in various guises.In this Idea Mine you can | | | | The Land of Orth
| | | | The Oculus Series (Collage Narrative)
| |  | | The Perspective Series (selections in Boulevard)
| | | | The Unexpected Twist Series
| |  | | Worlds to Shatter, Shattered Worlds
Worlds to Shatter, Shattered Worlds is a classically styled dramatic work often compared to the style and substance of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead.
In Worlds to Shatter, you will encounter the all-too-strange world inhabited by such denizens as Sea-faring Time-worshippers and the Keeper of the Nothingness. Paul JJ Payack is a Silicon Valley marketing executive by day but by night he constructs the elaborate all-too-strange worlds such as that found in Worlds to Shatter, Shattered Worlds. Over his career as a writer, Payack has created hundreds of 'metafictions,' in the various forms of novella, short stories, 'polyplays,' essays, and 'collage narratives' that have been published in some dozen collections and hundreds of reviews and anthol |
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