Category: Writing Excerpt
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Valentine’s Day Excerpt: Princess Pearl Speaks of Her Love, Casimir
For Valentine’s Day, here’s an excerpt from my new play “The Secrets of the Magic Pool.” In this excerpt, Princess Pearl is anxious for her Prince to arrive, and she banters back and forth with her loyal servant, Majji. PRINCESS: (overly dramatic) But it’s truer than the rise of mercury in the noon day sun.…
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A Vigil for a Starry Night
On a night when the clouds cover the stars like an impenetrable mountain cliff, I wait for a sign. A small tinge up my spine. A desperate plea for the ancient ways to speak once again. I wait for the light, hoping it will come, hoping it will be enough. . The stars, spread brightly…
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A Partial Poem at Midnight
I rarely write poetry anymore. It’s been a long time. I write a lot of lyrics, but for some reason I have completely stopped writing poetry. Which makes this post all the more strange because here’s a poem I wrote last night during the last fifteen minutes before midnight. Your interpretation is as good as…
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On the First Day of March
Back in September 2008, I was beginning to undertake writing my second play — this one which would incorporate some music. “A Tad of Trouble” was born and performed for the first time in May 2009. Six years later I am re-staging it with lots new music and an updated script. It’s a fun story…
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A Valentine’s Day Exclusive: “Banyan Tree” Romantic Excerpt
My latest novel, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, is loosely a historical romance. I hate to categorize it as such because I don’t believe it adequately describes it. But, it does have romance and it does tell a historical story. I thought I’d share a short romantic excerpt in honor of Valentine’s Day 2015. In…
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Excerpt: “If Love is a Crime: A Christmas Story”
Here’s an excerpt from the opening scene of my new Christmas Story, where Beatrice finds an unexpected visitor shivering in the cold in front of her cabin. The full story can be purchased exclusively on Kindle for only $0.99 cents HERE! EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: She pulled at the nearly finished shawl hanging off the side of the…
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The Spratlys, China, and an Exclusive Book Excerpt
The Spratly Islands are an archipelago of atolls, reefs, and quaint little islands in the South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Who owns the islands? Depends who you are asking. All three of the above countries claims that they are theirs. What has really become irksome to those three…
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The Strange Ways of the Universe – an Excerpt
One of the things I really enjoyed doing with my soon to be released third novel, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, was to pepper small doses of history into the writing to better frame the time period. Here’s the opening paragraph to a chapter entitled “The Strange Ways of the Universe” which help set the…
Author Mark W Sasse 