There are some great twists along the way, including the reveal of how his power came about. In fact, his first use of his power is to steal a bottle of wine. While our protagonist does have a tragic back story tied into 9/11, he is anything but the ordinary hero motivated to do good. It's an origin story stripped of the usual comic book cliche's and takes us on a strange odyssey that is both disturbing and provocative. He can sometimes turn invisible, sometimes convince people that certain items are not what they seem. This is an incredibly unique take on 'super powers.' We follow Seth Harrington over a few months as he discovers he has a strange power. No disrespect to whoever this might be, but we're not the same person. I suspect this is another writer with the same name. Note from MM : I'm listed as the author of short stories that appear in a few supernatural anthologies, and the links connect to my account. 4 Īnd a third coedited academic book that will focus on the concept of creative practice.Īs of 2020, he lives in Cornwall, England, after more than a decade in Hong Kong and several years in the outskirts of Seoul. Love Is a Poisonous Color (Rebel Satori Press, 2023), short story collection no. With Sam Meekings, he has coedited two academic books on the subject of creative writing: The Place and the Writer: International Intersections of Teacher Lore and Creative Writing Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Creative Writing Scholars on the Publishing Trade: Practice, Praxis, Print (Routledge, 2021).īlood and Black T-Shirts: Dispatches from Hong Kong's Descent into Hell 2019-2020 (Camphor Press, 2023) A collection of his short stories ( Sagome nere) was published in Italian by 96, rue de-la-Fontaine Edizioni, in 2017.

With Xu Xi, Moore is the co-editor of The Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong (Nottingham: Critical, Cultural & Communications Press, 2014). Marshall Moore is the author of several books: The Concrete Sky (Haworth Press, 2003) Black Shapes in a Darkened Room (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004) An Ideal for Living (Lethe Press, 2010) The Infernal Republic (Signal 8 Press, 2012) Bitter Orange (Signal 8 Press, 2013) A Garden Fed by Lightning (Signal 8 Press, 2016) Inhospitable (Camphor Press, 2018) and I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing (Rebel Satori Press, 2022).

Bitter Orange by Marshall Moore