Найдите следующее любимое произведение (book)

Станьте участником сегодня и читайте бесплатно в течение 30 днейНачните свои бесплатные 30 дней

Сведения о книге

Floating Notes

Автор: Babak Lakghomi

Активность, связанная с книгой

Начать чтение

Длина: 56 стр.49 мин

Издатель:: Tyrant Books
Издано:: Aug 7, 2018
ISBN:: 9781733535946
Формат:: Книге

Описание

Floating Notes is a novella of mystery, murder, intrigue, and love. In the space of a hundred pages, Lakghomi wroughts a unique narrator, a god in a rented room, where things appear and disappear from his life. And people are watching―or maybe they're not. There are no clear answers, there are no solutions, and everything is anything in Floating Notes

Подробнее

Активность, связанная с книгой

Начать чтение

Сведения о книге

Floating Notes

Автор: Babak Lakghomi

Длина: 56 стр.49 мин

Описание

Подробнее

Издатель:: Tyrant Books
Издано:: Aug 7, 2018
ISBN:: 9781733535946
Формат:: Книге

Об авторе

Babak Lakghomi

Babk Lakghomi lives in Toronto.

Соответствующие авторы

Skip carousel

carousel previous carousel next

Связано с Floating Notes

Связанные категории

Отрывок книги

Floating Notes - Babak Lakghomi

Acknowledgments

I don’t remember the first time I wrote my name. What I do remember is the first time someone else was called my name. I told him that was my name, too, but he couldn’t believe it. He was a fat boy with a puffy face. He looked like a little boxer.

Now, people call me in different names and I don’t care. Why people call me other names might be because I am not writing my name the right way, though that is how it’s written in my documents. Foreheads furrow whenever I say my name, and I have to take my papers out and show them to see for themselves.

I sometimes introduce myself as Bob, but only where I am sure nobody knows me. I have to be careful or they would know I’m not Bob.

Coffee shops are among the places that I call myself Bob. I sometimes forget I am Bob and my coffee grows cold. I never go twice to the same coffee shop.

Where is this name from? This is the question that I have to answer whenever I say my real name. Cab drivers, clerks. I rarely take a cab. Then they tell me they have a friend who has the same name. I think about all the people in the world with my name and their cab driver friends.

I don’t have friends, and the only one that I had was not a cab driver or a clerk. My name became a different name in her mouth. I want to say I loved hearing it from her and maybe I did, but any time I heard it, I feared I had done something wrong.

I wonder how the fat boy writes his name, and if he, like me, is being called different names.

My name is Bob, and this is what I call my life: an attic room with a yellow curtain in a narrow hallway, a spring bed on the creaking floor. Notebooks in a knapsack. Two cups of coffee per day.

The walls of my room are thin. A French man lives in the room next to me. His bed leans on the shared wall and I sometimes hear him cry at night. Sometimes women are over and I hear them through the thin wall too. The French man says he has been a pilot in France, but I don’t believe him.

This is my life after I left, or after she left me and I decided to leave, too.

My landlord is a Chinese woman. She has turned one of the rooms in the hallway into a shop where she sells plastic plants. You wonder how many people would buy plastic plants, but the hallway is always full.

In the hallway, there is a shared kitchen and a bathroom with two stalls. In the kitchen, a fridge is filled with food with name tags. I put my eggs and fruits in the fridge. I keep my bread in the drawer by the side of my bed. My eggs always go missing from the fridge, even though they have tags. I think this might have something to do with the French man.

The good thing is the eggs can be easily replaced. The room is in the same building with a Chinese grocery store. Fruits are stacked in the front section of the store. The back part places fresh fish, clams, live lobsters. I like watching the lobsters in the buckets, smelling the smell of sea.

My father had a small boat back home, we fished from the river there. Here, I fished on a large boat on the ocean. I remember the sound of the gulls fishing for the guts of fish that we threw back into the ocean. The smell of blood and salt. I gutted thousands of fish per day, my boots deep into the cold water. The blood from the boat left a red trail on the sea.

I found an office job after. I also started writing again—articles that I sent to different journals. You don’t believe me? I have them

Вы достигли конца этого отрывка. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы прочесть больше!

Начните бесплатный пробный период

Стр. 1 из 1

Обзоры

Что люди думают о Floating Notes

Рейтинг: 0 из 5

0 оценки / 0 обзоры

Ваше мнение?

Рейтинг: из 5

Написать отзыв (необязательно)

Язык

Добро пожаловать в Scribd!

Найдите следующее любимое произведение (book)

Сведения о книге

Floating Notes

Активность, связанная с книгой

Описание

Активность, связанная с книгой

Сведения о книге

Floating Notes

Описание

Об авторе

Соответствующие авторы

Связано с Floating Notes

Chasing Before

Witchlanders

Leaving Lottawatah

The Fallen

The Storymakers

The Taking

The Watcher Saga

The Perfect Game

Secrets Beyond Best Friends - Daises (Book 3) Contemporary Romance

The Twisted Tragedy of Miss Natalie Stewart

The Infinite: A Novel

Erasing Time

Beautiful Days

Ruby Red

The Mara Dyer Trilogy

Amarok

Murder They Wrought

#476 Science in Fiction: Nerds and geeks of all stripes love to dissect exactly how their favorite (or least favorite) sci-fi and fantasy tales got science so wrong. But many TV shows, movies and book actually manage to get science pretty right (except for those pesky time-tra...

History’s First Benedict Arnold: Who was the original Benedict Arnold? Why, it’s Benedict Arnold—as you’ll find out from spy novelist and history fanatic Brad Meltzer.

Agatha Christie

Dhonielle Clayton: Live at Politics and Prose: Dhonielle Clayton discusses her novel, "The Belles", with fellow YA author Jason Reynolds at Politics and Prose on 2/9/18.

The Politics of Writing About Loved Ones: Sarah Saffian

Episode 95 - The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson: Do you love a mystery? Do you love playing detective, looking for clues on every page? This week’s novel is about a lot of things – segregation, bullying, and most of all, a family mystery. This week's episode is "The Parker...

Unveiling North Korea with Fact and Fiction

Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction In Anna Symon’s Lightly Fictionalized ‘Mrs. Wilson’: The real story behind "Mrs. Wilson" is almost too strange to be true — which helped writer Anna Symon blur the lines between film genres.

Jennifer Weiner: Meet the Author: The popular novelist discusses writing and reading.

The Pest House

Ep 186: Finding the book that feels like it was written just for you

Ep 45: "The Burning Girl" Blisters With Growing Pains: It comes as no surprise that novelist Claire Messud discovered her life's calling at such a young age.

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Writing Fiction, with Elizabeth Buchan: With Elizabeth Buchan, author of the novel Everything She Thought She Wanted (and 9 others)

André Aciman

Exit West

101: A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing: The ability to tell a good story is one of the things that makes human beings extraordinary. Here's the process I used to teach my own students how to do it.

Jake Bible writes novels in four weeks: Jake Bible is one of the most prolific novelists on the market now with over 60 books under his belt. He writes in multiple genres and has the extraordinary ability to finish a book in four weeks. He was even nominated for a Bram Stoker award. Jakes's L...

StarShipSofa No 622 Geoffrey W. Cole: Main Fiction: "Captured Carbon" by Geoffrey W. Cole This story first appeared in Cli-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change (Exile, 2017). Geoffrey W. Cole's award-winning short fiction has appeared in such publications as Reckoning, Cla...

SSWW Elisabeth Egan Author Interview

Are You Confusing Readers With Poor Cause and Effect?: It's all too easy for authors to risk confusing readers by showing the effect of an action, before showing the cause itself.

#350 Science In Wonderland: This week, we're learning about imaginative ways to teach science to children, and how to use science as a tool for parenting. We'll hear about fanciful tales written to explain scientific concepts, with Cambridge University science historian Melanie K...

Episode 4 - I Ain't 'Fraid of No Tarot: The Menage a Tarot Halloween episode Join us as we discuss many Halloween topics... ghosts, Sasquatch, hauntings, and of course the Tarot = Helpful Links = Crystal Woman by Lynn Andrews...

Envisioning 'A People's Future of the United States': Howard Zinn’s seminal 1980 work "A People’s History of the United States" challenged dominant narratives of our country’s past by uncovering its darker truths; nearly 40 years later, a new collection of speculative fiction, "A...

StarShipSofa No 520 Michael Haynes and Alison Wilgus: ﻿Main Fiction: "What You Can Change" by Michael Haynes Originally published in Kazka Press Michael Haynes lives in Central Ohio. An ardent short story reader and writer, Michael’s stories have appeared in publications such as Ellery Queen...

Summer Reading: Robert and Julie's Picks: Summer Reading: Robert and Julie's Picks: Once again, your Robert and Julie are here to share some summer reading recommendations with their curious listeners. Explore their delightful buffet of science, sci-fi, children's books, literary fiction and grap

Separate fact from fiction; reveal facts; and explore fiction with The Torch!: The truth is out there! Explore misconceptions about how your mind works, uncover overlooked history, and define two-sides of the same literary coin.

Driven By Distraction

A Year in Reading: Paul Yoon

The Millions Top Ten: September 2017

Murder She Writes

Kelly Rimmer

The Books Briefing: The People Who Give, and Receive Little in Return

Crimes of the Heart

Sex And Vanity

New Year New Books

Culture

Lost Children Archive

Fiction

On the Page

A Daughter’s Diary

The Millions Top Ten: July 2019

Book Trio

THE Total Girl BOOK CLUB

Book Club

A Year in Reading: De’Shawn Charles Winslow

Book The Kingdom

Lord Of Secrets

Kevin Ireland

StarShipSofa No 520 Michael Haynes and Alison Wilgus: Main Fiction: "What You Can Change" by Michael Haynes Originally published in Kazka Press Michael Haynes lives in Central Ohio. An ardent short story reader and writer, Michael’s stories have appeared in publications such as Ellery Queen...