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As I followed him along the stepping stone path to the back door, a quick look over my shoulder spotted the charred stones upon the distant hill, like an agonizing hand grasping for some solace from Heaven. But what comfort could come in the knowledge that we were abandoning the old God?
... from "Indoor Plumbing for Posterity,"
one of the stories in This Great Divide, by Eric Prochaska
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Welcome to Halo Forge Press
We are a small (tiny!) independent press operated in all the free time we can muster. But, hey, we thought publishing a book would be more fun than watching re-runs! Our site is currently stripped down to a bare bones version as we re-tool our online presence. But while you're here you can still read excerpts from our first release, This Great Divide. Just click the image on the left to begin.
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Prasie for This Great Divide
"The loftiest of thoughts and the farthest-seeking are engendered when one contemplates the great voids in life and nature. In the vivid canvases of Eric Prochaska's stories, the passage of time and inevitable loss are set against the sublimity of vastness -- the trackless desolation of the Arizona desert, a starry nighttime sky, the pitiless arrow of time, the unfathomable space between human hearts, subjects from which less venturesome spirits shrink. His lives are lived with deep and thoughtful intensity, their yearnings never quite achieved but never abandoned. Both he and his memorable characters, like the drugstore thief in "Nothing But Infinity," display an integrity clearly uncompromising, a stoic resolve in the face of cold immensity.
"These stories hearken back, free from today's self-indulgent fashion, to the lapidary stories of an earlier, pre-postmodern era in America, names like Sherwood Anderson and Carson McCullers and Faulkner in a tender mood. Yet the voice is fresh and in tune with the uprooted, polarized America of the New Millennium. Despite its prevailing somber mien, the ache of faded aspirations, Prochaska's fiction is artfully balanced by an undertone of peacefulness, an ultimately liberating affirmation of the life one has been dealt."
-- J. C. Frampton -- author of the novel The Bronze Tower and numerous short stories in U.S. and British literary journals and former arts reviewer for the San Diego Tribune
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