Gio Marron

The official account for Giovanni Marron - Writer, reader, futurist, swimmer, Ironman and US Navy Vet.

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One angry sentence. One lifetime of exile.

Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country, read by Edward G. Robinson, is one of America's most enduring stories of patriotism and redemption.

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A fragile thread between Paradise and Hell. Akutagawa’s “The Spider’s Thread,” with foreword and image.

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is a story of family, courage, ambition, and growing up that has inspired readers for generations. If you've never read it, or it's been years, there's no better time to visit the March sisters.
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A war story without a battlefield.

Alphonse Daudet’s “The Siege of Berlin” turns defeat, mercy, memory, and patriotic illusion into one devastating sickroom drama.

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A king comes looking for silver and finds something stronger: a people preserved by restraint, faith, and moral courage.

Selma Lagerlöf’s “The Silver Mine” is a quiet, powerful tale about treasure best left buried.

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A gentleman criminal, a coded newspaper notice, and a statesman’s darkest secret: he once had a sense of humor.

A. A. Milne’s “The Adventurer” is a sharp little comic crime story from the author before Pooh eclipsed everything.

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Before he was “Old Put,” Israel Putnam was the man willing to be lowered into a wolf’s den with a torch, a musket, and very little patience for fear.

Read Caroline Clifford Newton’s frontier legend, “Old Wolf Putnam.” #ClassicStories #AmericanHistory
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A scholar seeks quiet in an old house. What he finds is a chair, a portrait, a rope, and a warning he should have believed.

Bram Stoker’s chilling Gothic tale The Judge’s House is now up.

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A beautiful, impossible horse. A young romance. A California hillside glowing with memory.

Bret Harte’s “Chu Chu” is comic, wistful, and wonderfully strange, a frontier love story where the mare may understand more than anyone else.

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A strange light appears in the heavens, and humanity discovers how small it really is.

H. G. Wells’s “The Star” is cosmic disaster fiction at its sharpest: beautiful, terrifying, and still unsettlingly modern.

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A young American reader follows Dickens into the fog of old London and finds something stranger than a landmark: a place where literature, memory, and ghostly possibility meet.

foreword to Gio Marron

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H. G. Wells knew the most frightening invasion was not just from Mars, but from the collapse of human certainty.

A new foreword to The War of the Worlds is up at Elephant Island Chronicles.

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A frightened boy, a moonlit pumpkin patch, and a whole convention of ghosts insisting there are no ghosts.

Ellis Parker Butler’s strange, comic Halloween tale “Dey Ain’t No Ghosts” is now up at Elephant Island Chronicles:

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A haunted house. A scientific inventor. A ghost problem treated less like a mystery than a household maintenance issue.
Gelett Burgess’s “The Ghost-Extinguisher” is a wonderfully strange bit of early 1900s comic fantasy
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A tunnel beneath the Atlantic.
A train driven by air pressure.
A buried city no one was meant to find.L. Taylor Hansen’s 1929 pulp classic The Undersea Tube returns with new illustrations and a foreword.https://t.co/YkY2GaQJ9V

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“The Snake Prince,” from Andrew Lang’s The Olive Fairy Book, is now up at Elephant Island Chronicles.
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A stagecoach. A nervous young traveler. A silent veiled woman. A rude companion. And one of the strangest surprises in classic fiction.

“The Third Person Singular” by Lucy Hardy, with a foreword by Gio Marron:
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A wild bush girl, a bark humpy in the scrub, a moonlit race through danger, and a love story forged in hardship. “Billjim” is one of those old tales that still carries dust, heart, and courage in every line. Read it here: https://t.co/35d6FQV2FK

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New at Elephant Island Chronicles: the first chapter of Ian Moreno's The Memory Keepers. Hard SF set in Europa's subsurface ocean, told from inside an alien sensorium that has never known light. I wrote the foreword. I think you should read it.
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A devil, a missionary’s shadow, and the strange arrival of tobacco in Japan. Akutagawa turns folklore into something sly, eerie, and sharper than it first appears.

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