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Autism and Capitalism coexist, but they are in diametric opposition to one another. One wonders if Autism would be considered a disorder at all in a world not so obsessed with “sell, sell, sell” as a collective mantra.
In this candid “condensed soup” memoir, Ty Unglebower looks back on stages of his life, both before and after his late diagnosis with Autism Spectrum Disorder to examine how a world that refused to understand his uniqueness obstructed, confused and bullied him into a loss of confidence and lack of professional success in a culture of endless self-promotion…something with which he struggles to this day.
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The Rubble and the Shakespeare
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The tyrannical Regime may be gone at last, but it’s easy to remain cynical about fanciful notions such as the arts when half your city still lies in rubble from the recent revolution.
That’s where Dimitri finds himself: middle-aged, living in government refugee housing in the outskirts of his own city on a small pension, and with a disabled knee. His life is a peaceful but not adventurous one.
That is until his dearest friend, Otto, barges in with a box of rare and previously outlawed books by one William Shakespeare. Otto wants to stage something called The Tempest, and he just needs Dimitri’s help for a day, to get started.
Anything for Otto. But as obstacles of all kinds pile up against the production, and an initial day of help turns into weeks, how much will the down-to-earth Dimitri do for a silly play? For a friend? For himself?
My first self-published book of poetry.
A lodestone is a naturally occurring mineral or rock with magnetic properties. Like any magnet, when crossing over baser matter, a lodestone pulls out specific component materials that can then be used for myriad purposes.
By deleting and saving specific words and phrases from various sources while keeping their sequence in tact, a poet can create entirely new works. As with a literal lodestone to certain metals, words and phrases are drawn out from an original, and put to myriad poetic uses.
14 Fantastic Frederick County Writing Spots
Every writer needs a change of venue from time to time. For author Ty Unglebower, the best places to write outside of the home are those in our own neighborhoods and regions. For him that means Frederick County, Maryland, his lifelong home.
Join Ty as he takes your on a brief journey to 14 locations in Frederick County where he has written and where he thinks you too will be able to spark your muse.
Includes ten handsome computer illustrations by Jamie Welch.
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Rejecting a straight forward arc, The Italics Are My Own asks the reader:
“Can we find satisfaction in fragments and segments instead of a whole?”
“What is the true nature of story, if there is one?”
“Do the answers matter, if we are moved by the experience?”
By experimenting with form, voice and narrative, this novella does not answer, but presents the questions in a stylized, but subtle manner.
A fantasy adventure.
The soul of assassinated American President, James Garfield is called upon to fight an evil on the afterlife.
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Vanessa is a highly sensitive person on the Autism Spectrum. Like the other women in her family, she can see promises. Anywhere a promise has been made by people, she sees spheres of colored light she calls beacons. Mostly she overlooks them, and mostly she prefers her solitude.
One day on a much needed vacation to the family cabin, Vanessa sees the impossible: a beacon high above the trees, where no normal person could possibly promise anything.
Torn between investigating the woods with the help of strangers, and following her original plan to withdraw from the stresses of the world, Vanessa spends the summer learning more about her gift, herself, and her relationship with other people.
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Thoughts I Wrote Down Because I Hate Talking to People
A collection of brief, humor/life essays on topics ranging from porn to Harry Potter. Sometimes sarcastic, sometimes introspective, always sincere and very Autistic.
Order! Ten Stories. Ten Very Different Meetings
A short story collection. Each story involves a meeting, and its plot hinges on some aspect of parliamentary procedure, as laid out in Robert’s Rules of Order. (A minor hyperfixation of Ty’s for years.) Humor, literary, sci-fi, and other genres are represented among the ten stories.
When overworked theatre director Milton Crouse is forced on a retreat by his sister, he is forbidden from having anything to do with the stage. But when one of his fellow guests at small estate on a Vermont mountain ends up murdered, Milton finds his theatre knowledge useful in trying to determine who the killer is.
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Before giving up the stage for good, a disillusioned amateur actor joins a friend’s troubled summer production, during which he and some of his cast mates experience odd encounters and supernatural phenomenon that will challenge their views of theatre and of themselves.
Thank You For Ten: Short Fiction About a Little Theater
The ten short stories in this collection explore both the drama and the comedy that takes place inside a community playhouse on and off the stage.